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 馃槈
