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Dn Jackson30 Apr 2021 1:02 p.m. PST

I'm getting ready to start my Welsh project and I'm looking for illustrations of Welsh/British from 500 to about 1100 AD. I realize this is a large period and covers Welsh, Strathclyde, Dumnonia, etc. I'm hoping for original illustrations from manuscripts, Bibles, etc. but realize they're few and far between, (it was the Dark Ages after all).

I'm hoping for clothing colors, shield designs, (if any), hair colors, etc.

Thanks

GurKhan01 May 2021 2:53 a.m. PST

There was a three-part series "The Appearance of the Medieval Welsh" by Paul Walsh in Slingshot issues 146-8. From memory the author found very little artistic evidence but quite a few useful literary references.

Dn Jackson02 May 2021 8:46 p.m. PST

That's something! Thanks very much. Do you know if these issues are archived on the web anywhere?

GurKhan03 May 2021 6:49 a.m. PST

Not that I am aware of; and it's too old for the back issues to be individually available. If you don't know anyone who has the back issues, the only source I know of would be buying the digital collection of "Fifty-Five Years of Slingshot, 1965-2020" on USB – link – which is not cheap. Sorry.

Dn Jackson03 May 2021 9:56 p.m. PST

That looks like a good price to me. I'll give it a shot, thanks.

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