Zeborah

O hai thar Internets, I need vital informations! Imagine a pictorial stained glass window for a church, about 1x2 metres. How long would it, in Denmark in the 16th century, have taken to do each of:
a) source coloured glass (or might one have it lying around)?
b) cut said glass into appropriately shaped bitties?
c) join the bitties together and have a glorious window?

I'm grasping at straws in my chronology and if I get inconvenient answers I'll have to rewrite this scene again from scratch.

I mean, I already have to write it again from scratch, because the conversations started in the wrong order, but I'll have to write it again from scratch without a stained glass window, and that stained glass window was going to merge a couple of plot strands, a couple of theme strands, and a whole heap of OMG PRETTY.

Just so you know why I'm going to be bald in a day or two when my artist friend comes back from her glass class with informations for me.

Update #1: Thanks all, I'm growing increasingly resigned to Plan A being the stuff of deals with the devil and, on the upside, increasingly optimistic about my new shiny Plan C potentially working. (Plan B was unsatisfactory.)

Update #2: (written at the same time as update #1) Semi-related revelations force me to admit that I now need to rewrite part of the penultimate scene. "One step forward, two steps back" strikes again!

This is Dorothea of Brandenburg: twice queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; regent in her husbands' absence; commander of all the castles in the three kingdoms; holder of so many fiefs it caused political problems, including the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein after her husband couldn't repay her loans -- in short, the most powerful and presumably vocal woman of 15th century Scandinavia.



W. T. F?

Norway is really fractal.

So say I'm writing a book set in 1527 and I have a map drawn in the 1580s. (It's a really cool map. It shows the cranes for unloading on the wharf and the sheep grazing on the roofs. It's also written in 16th century German, because I really needed to waste several minutes of my life figuring out that "Thumbkirch" means "Domkirk" (cathedral).) Say moreover that a certain tower underwent important structural changes at some point in history. Is this point most likely to have been:

a) before 1527;
b) between 1527 and the 1580s so that the picture on the map bears no resemblance to what I'm writing about; or
c) after the 1580s?

It's almost like important political upheaval happened during the sixteenth century or something. Sheesh!