Clothing of Dante's Time and Gothic inscribed Crosses in Frozen Burial Grounds Copenhagen, June 17.
Men's costumes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have been found in Greenland. They are in an excellent state of preservation and resemble the clothes worn by Dante in the published pictures of the Italian poet.
They were found by Dr. Noerlund, a Danish scientist, while excavating in ancient burial grounds in the southwestern part of Greenland. They are said to be the only existing specimens in the world of garments worn by men in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Deposited in the frozen earth for about 600 years, they have been preserved from destruction by moth and age. The garments ave now in Copenhagen.
Dr. Noerlund has found also several old wooden crosses in the razon. earth. They ave covered inscriptions in the Gothic rune script, and are considered by scientists to be of great historic value.—Reuter.
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