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What is right and what is wrang, a short sword and a lang, a weak arm and a strang for to draw...

Welcome back to the read-along! This week's chapters are getting a bit more serious, historically and for our characters...

Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part II.

Date: Oct. 18th, 2021 08:26 pm (UTC)
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
From: [personal profile] luzula
Here is an article I found about it. It seems that mostly upper-class women used menstrual clouts that they fastened by girdles around their waists? But lower-class women probably often bled on their shifts. Also apparently it was considered very unhealthy to stop the flow of blood, so the author thinks tampons were not used? Except that it seems there is evidence that sometimes prostitutes used them so that men would not notice they were having their period (menstrual blood was considered dangerous)?

Also, what a quote: "Thy righteousness is but a menstrual clout!"

Date: Oct. 19th, 2021 07:45 pm (UTC)
tei: Rabbit from the Garden of Earthly Delights (Default)
From: [personal profile] tei
Ooh, thank you for that! THY RIGHTEOUSNESS.

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