75% Superwash Blue Faced Leiceter wool 25% Nylon

425m per 100g

This yarn is perfect for socks and other objects knit on a tight gauge that need to handle hard use. Blue Faced Leiceter is a wool with long glossy fibers that are very well suited for this type of use and with the added nylon for your hard work to really last as long as possible.

Miklagàrd means the great city in old Norse. Miklagàrd was the Norse name for Constantinople the capital of the Byzantine empire that today is called Istanbul. Some Vikings travelled as far as Miklagàrd and there went into the service of the emperor as his personal bodyguards. This elite core of soldiers was known as the Varangian Guard. King Harald Hardrada (the hard ruler) was a captain of the Varangian Guard in his youth before he returned home to take the crown of Norway. Today you can still see rune inscriptions if you visit the Hagia Sofia.

This colour is an attempt to copy the extremely exclusive fabrics dyed purple with dyes extracted from shellfish for the Byzantine emperors. Before synthetic dyes were invented purple was the most exclusive colour in the world.

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Are made (these runes)

Possible interpretation of one rune inscription in Hagia Sofia