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Show here your Germanic warrior impression
Amerindians wore buffalo robes (basically just a soft-tanned fur-on buffalo hide). Inuit wear various furs. Roman signifers, imaginfers and other -fers wore bear, maybe wolf, lion, and perhaps leopard skins as part of their military gear. (Roman -fers wore fur, heh)

Medieval kings and nobles wore fur and fur trimmed garments. If I lived in the forest, and it was cold, I'd wrap me in fur if I could get it. Some folks still wear fur, perhaps as much as a fashion statement of sorts as warmth. I've worn an elkskin coat. It's very warm, and stops out even the most bitter biting wind.

I don't think the Germanics were poor, Stone agers who wore fur like is supposed for the "cave men". But then, I don't think the cave men/Neolithic people did, either. They knew how to sew. And weave.

Ditto on the non-Flintstones look. I don't believe that would be the garment worn by anybody. But to wrap oneself in a bearskin or elkskin, or reindeer skin in a blizzard? Yep. Smart move. Documentation? Nope. The ancient Germanics in particular were bad about keeping written records.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

Saepe veritas est dura.
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Baiuware Kit - by ioannes sebald - 10-14-2008, 05:41 PM
Re: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by MARTINVS ARIES TEVTONICVS - 12-22-2010, 12:03 AM
Re: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by Liadon - 06-04-2011, 02:47 PM
Re: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by Thomas Zaccone - 10-02-2011, 07:29 AM
Re: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by M. Demetrius - 01-06-2012, 07:03 AM
RE: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by Keith Croteau - 02-04-2016, 06:45 PM
RE: Show here your Germanic warrior impression - by germanicus1 - 05-28-2018, 02:32 AM

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