hustrulin
English translation: wimple
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| 14:19 Apr 29, 2014 |
| Swedish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / Mediaeval women's headwear | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Agneta Pallinder United Kingdom Local time: 15:35 | ||||||
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| 4 +2 | married woman's headdress |
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| 4 | wimple |
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| 3 | hustrulinet/veil |
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27 mins confidence: 
hustrulinet/veil Explanation: Here's one way to deal with it -- as in http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/wedding.shtml did u find this reference already? This also uses veil http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/wedding.shtml Otherwise an interesting site... A quick look shows that styles seem to be local and the names are the borrowed terms from the local language... as in http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/glossary.... Pleasant hunting! |
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39 mins confidence:
wimple Explanation: See Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimple - with picture that resembles Sankta Birgitta's usual headdress. |
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18 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2married woman's headdress Explanation: "Hustrulin" is certainly not a common term in modern Swedish; what it connotes is a married woman's (hustru) linen (lin) headdress, which in times long gone was meant to hide the married woman's hair from view - not unlike the muslim women's hijab today. The Orsa costume, which is considered to be among the older in style, still has this type of headdress for the married woman, only it is called 'flax' in the local dialect - cf. Sw. lin and En. flax. http://www.hembygd.se/orsa-skattunge/orsadrakten/kvinnodrakt... In view of the above, I would use this simple explanatory phrase as the English translation. |
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