On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Sigurd Towrie wrote: > On 20 March 2004 18:49, stephen davie wrote: > >> 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. > > Beads found in viking graves in Orkney (so far) are usually associated > with female burials. > I was wondering if thee is any online description of what type of > beads they may have found in Orkney Viking gravesites. > -- > Sigurd Towrie > Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney > Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com > Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com > Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk > > > ==== 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 >