id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ljqs4pzhqzbnhdclxxwpdcifja Isak Lidström Ancient buoyancy devices in Sweden: floats made of reed, club-rush, inflated skins and animal bladders 2019 11 .pdf application/pdf 4476 422 66 Ancient buoyancy devices in Sweden: floats made of reed, club-rush, inflated skins and animal bladders To cite this article: Isak Lidström & Ingvar Svanberg (2019) Ancient buoyancy devices in Sweden: floats made of reed, club-rush, inflated skins and animal bladders, Folk Life, 57:2, 85-94, DOI: Ancient buoyancy devices in Sweden: floats made of reed, The use of inflated animal skins and bladders as floats is a very ancient method in the floats or 'swim-belts' of reed or club-rush has also occurred in more recent times in bundle of club-rush, which they put under the chest when they learned to swim.36 in the mid-nineteenth century38, reed or club-rush bundles were still in use here and learning to swim with the support of a bundle of club-rush.41 The custom of using bundles of reed or club-rush as buoyancy devices is known from should nevertheless be noted that the use of reed, club-rush and animal bladders in ./cache/work_ljqs4pzhqzbnhdclxxwpdcifja.pdf ./txt/work_ljqs4pzhqzbnhdclxxwpdcifja.txt