Toddler and I stopped at Ravning, the site of a millennium old viking bridge. There I stepped inside a patch of nettles.

That makes me wonder how prevalent nettles were in viking age Denmark. I'm sure they used them for fabric etc, but would your average Gorm / Gunhild constantly step into nettles?

Maybe a archobotanist (that a thing?) can answer this?

edit: some excellent comments already. And it's palaeobotanist 😉

#history #archeology #viking #denmark

Toddler and I stopped at Ravning, the site of a millennium old viking bridge. There I stepped inside a patch of nettles.

That makes me wonder how prevalent nettles were in viking age Denmark. I'm sure they used them for fabric etc, but would your average Gorm / Gunhild constantly step into nettles?

Maybe a archobotanist (that a thing?) can answer this?

edit: some excellent comments already. And it's palaeobotanist 😉

#history #archeology #viking #denmark