Vest -$185
Cardigan - $260

Finished measurements: 42.75, 45, 47.25, 49.5, and 51.75 inches. Kit contains enough yarn for the largest size. Extra yarn is not returnable.

Pattern not sold separately.

VEST

CARDIGAN

In the mid-9th century, seafaring Vikings turned their attention to uninhabited islands to the west; first to the Faroe Islands, then Iceland, and later Greenland. Hearty settlers came from all over the Viking world and brought with them new ideas about everything from house building, to land use, to law. They evolved a unique culture now identified as Norse. According to Norse and Icelandic sagas, in 1000 CE Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland for lands still further west. He came to the shores of a verdant place he called Vinland. Nearly 1000 years later, in 1960, archeologists unearthed Viking artifacts and Icelandic-style house foundations at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland -- a Viking settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus. The design for this V-neck vest was developed from an inlay on a silver and bronze handle of a Viking sword.