Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 📚 **Mystery ‘hairy’ material used to make handcrafted medieval book covers finally revealed**</p><p>Vishwam Sankaran</p><p>_DNA analysis revealed that eight of the skins were from harbor, harp, and bearded seal species likely sourced from their populations in Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and “perhaps Barents-White Sea region”._</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/medieval-books-cover-material-mystery-b2730137.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/science</span><span class="invisible">/archaeology/medieval-books-cover-material-mystery-b2730137.html</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Vikings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vikings</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Norse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norse</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/medievodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>medievodons</span></a></span></p>