This week, courtesy of Katrin Kania, I learned about a free, searchable database of scholarly publications. It's called Digital Vetenskapliga Arkivet, or DiVA, and it allows one to search for books, dissertations, and articles published by scholars at nearly 50 different universities in Scandinavia. (The above link goes to the English language version of the home page; for the Swedish version of the home page, go here.) Best of all, DiVA is absolutely free to use. You can go directly to the DiVA search page from here.
Naturally, DiVA includes dissertations, articles, and other works that are not related to textiles, clothing or the Vendel and Viking Ages. In addition, many of the works findable via DiVA are not in English. However, I still found an excellent work relevant to textile-related Vendel period studies with my first search:
Malmius, Anita. Burial textiles: Textile bits and pieces in central Sweden, AD 500–800 Doctoral Dissertation, Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies (2020 (English))
I am really looking forward to reading this volume of Anita Malmius's work, which on first glance appears very comprehensive. I look forward to further searching on DiVA for other useful papers when I have more time (and brain energy!) to invest. In the meantime, by means of this post I hope to make DiVA available to more costume researchers, and perhaps to people with different reenactment-related interests as well.
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