Wow, Stephen, this is very interesting - thanks for the website. Charlie in Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Another Bronze Age Burial uncovered while ploughing > HERE YOU GO. SCROLL DOWN THROUGH ALL THESE AND YOU WILL FIND THE GRAVES > AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU WILL SEE THE BEADS. > > > > > > http://www.beadbugle.com/html/viking_beads.html > > > > > > > would love to see it. THANKS. > > Marion > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Another Bronze Age Burial uncovered while > > ploughing > > > > > >> I just dug around and found one of the photos. If you like I could > >> e-mail it to you......Stephen > >> On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 05:04 PM, Marion wrote: > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > word > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

The story goes like this, Charlie. Our relatives traded beads with the first nations folks with the HBC. They also acquired native wives. Many of the Orcadian canoemen wore these beads around their neck, which was a convenient place to have them, should your canoe roll over, or you lose a backpack in the rapids. It was like having a little trading money around your neck. I think of it as a wallet on a string.They also wore old medallions, mostly with beavers on them, either trade made beaver tokens, or gift tokens given to influential indians. Aside from their personal beads and medallions, the Company would have them haul major quantities of this merchandise when on the fur trade expansion trail. Much to my surprise, as you see on that website, is the fact that Vikings wore beads long before the trading over here started. And many of the beads were similar to those traded here hundreds of years after Vikings wore them. Many were made in Sweden, but the Venetian and Oriental types were also worn by Vikings. It is for this reason that I felt that somewhere in Orkney lie the bones of an old Viking, and around his neck would be beads. Of course then, the nature of the folks being what it was, that is to say practical, that perhaps the dead Viking lost his beads when he checked out, bequeathed to a relative, or stolen by a murderer....who knows. I am making up some beads for my three kids of Hudson Bay trading beads and a few old Viking pieces. Makes more sense to me than collecting stamps or crystal. And the originals are a good investment. Canorky Stephen On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 07:13 AM, Charlie Petersen wrote: > Wow, Stephen, this is very interesting - thanks for the website. > Charlie in Washington > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:33 AM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Another Bronze Age Burial uncovered while > ploughing > > >> HERE YOU GO. SCROLL DOWN THROUGH ALL THESE AND YOU WILL FIND THE >> GRAVES >> AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU WILL SEE THE BEADS. >>> >> >> >> >> http://www.beadbugle.com/html/viking_beads.html >> >>> >> >> >>> would love to see it. THANKS. >>> Marion >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> >>> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:45 PM >>> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Another Bronze Age Burial uncovered while >>> ploughing >>> >>> >>>> I just dug around and found one of the photos. If you like I could >>>> e-mail it to you......Stephen >>>> On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 05:04 PM, Marion wrote: >>> >>> >>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >>> word >>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >>> >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >