Mrs. von Skrydstrup

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Mrs. von Skrydsrup
Reconstruction of the hairstyle
Attempt to reconstruct the hairnet

The woman of Skrydstrup ( Danish Skrydstruppigen pigen = girl) comes from the early Nordic Bronze Age , around 1300 BC. It was found in 1935 in a well-preserved oak coffin under a mound near Skrydstrup, southwest of Vojens , in the southern Jutland municipality of Haderslev in Denmark . The find was important for the reconstruction of women's costume from the Bronze Age in the region.

The dead woman was about 18 years old and about 1.70 m tall. She was placed in the coffin with a short-sleeved blouse made of woven wool with embroidery on the sleeves and neckline. A large square piece of fabric, gathered at the top by a belt, covered her from her waist to her feet. She wore her hair in a special shape. It was combed forward over a pad. A woolen cord was tied around the hair. Over the forehead, from temple to temple, the hair was braided like a bouquet of flowers. The hairstyle was covered with a hair net made of horse hair. A similar hairstyle is known from a grave in Hvilshøj on Mors . The woman lay on a cowhide , wore a comb on her woolen belt and large gold spiral earrings . A woolen cap was given to her.

Almost nothing remained of the woman's coffin, but the woman and her clothes were in good condition. The hill had been broken up a few years earlier and the organic matter had started to rot. If the excavation at Skrydstrup had taken place only a few years later, the gold earrings would have been the only find, everything else would have dissolved.

The results of more recent studies suggest that Skrydstrup's wife immigrated to southern Jutland from the region of what is now the Czech Republic ( Bohemia ), central Germany or France between the ages of 13 and 14 , where she died about four years later.

literature

  • CJ Becker : Bronzealderhøje ved Skrydstrup . In: Fra Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark . 1946, ISSN  0084-9308 (Danish).
  • Hans Christian Broholm and Margrethe Hald: Skrydstrupfundet - en sønderjydsk kvindegrav fra den ældre bronzealder . In: Nordiske Fortidsminder . tape 2 , no. 3 . Gyldendal , København 1939 (Danish).
  • Henny Harald Hansen: Skrydstrup-kvindens dragt . In: Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie . 1978, ISSN  0084-585X (Danish).
  • E. Lomborg: Skrydstrup-hairstyle fra en brandgrav på Mors . In: Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie . 1963, ISSN  0084-585X (Danish).
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 133
  • Karl Schlabow : Germanic cloth makers of the Bronze Age . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1937 (detailed description of clothing in terms of textile technology).

Web links

Commons : Mrs. von Skrydstrup  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Famous Bronze Age Dane was 'immigrant': research from April 10, 2017 on The Local DK (accessed April 12, 2017)

Coordinates: 55 ° 13 ′ 56.3 "  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 33.6"  E

personal data
SURNAME Mrs. von Skrydstrup
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skrydstrupkvinden (Danish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish bog corpse
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th century BC Chr.
Place of death near Skrydstrup, Jutland, Denmark