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found this great tutorial..http://earthandliving.blogspot.com/2008/08/viking-shoes-tutorial-sort-of.html

I might give these a try

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Bravo Roo :clapping:

Never seen or heard of this type before but they are very cool and look like easy fun to make.

Good finding!

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Those are ghillie brogues -- IIRC, more Irish than Norse, but since Dublin was settled by the Norse... well, you do the math. I've tried on similar shoes, and didn't care for them, but other people love them dearly. I'll stick with my Jorvik boots.

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They look great and a lot of work..... "a gloryfied way to go barefooted"?

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For a little more durability and water resistance, you could hit the bottom of them with this stuff: http://www.sodhoppers.com/html/goop.html

Off topic: the guy at that link makes really nice moccasins...

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I have a pair and they are comfortable. The above post is right. They are usually called Ghillies and are normally attributed to the Scots and/or Irish. However, they are considerably older than that. Here is a link http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carls...istofplates.htm that if you follow to the South Kensington Museam you will find a Frankish shoe that is strikingly familiar to the Ghillie. By the way, if you have never seen it, the enitre site is worth looking at. From Jacks to cavalier boots to oriental shoes there are some interesting examples. One clever person even put the words to the leather bottel down for your enjoyment, but you have to look for it.

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Those are ghillie brogues -- IIRC, more Irish than Norse, but since Dublin was settled by the Norse... well, you do the math. I've tried on similar shoes, and didn't care for them, but other people love them dearly. I'll stick with my Jorvik boots.

after the Norse left Ireland they settled here on my hill, how cool is that, they look cool I am going to make a pair for my viking costume.

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Looks like just the footwear I need to wear to the upcoming season of lutefisk/meatball supper/pickled herring feasts. Tak skal du have.

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Looks like just the footwear I need to wear to the upcoming season of lutefisk/meatball supper/pickled herring feasts. Tak skal du have.

I'll step in and reply for Roo, she busy in the backroom toilets powdering her nose wich usually generate a long que outside it. I can hear several of the team members jumping around out there on one leg;-)

Tack själv Bruce!

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