Headdress Stig Lathgertha is a semi-legendary Danish

Lathgertha is a semi-legendary Danish Viking shieldmaiden

'Study for the Opening of the Royal Exchange by Queen Victoria'

She holds a letter and wears a blue velvet empire line dress

Plate 4 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue

Headdress Stig Lathgertha is a semi-legendary DanishHeaddress, early 16th century, (1843). The band ornamented with jewellery is a templette. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).