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Sleds (or “sledges”) are generally pulled by a person (or sometimes self-propelled with sticks), rather than a horse-drawn sleigh.
The words “sled” and “sleigh,” of course, are etymologically similar, and many languages don't make any distinction between these concepts.
- Four sledges from the Oseberg burial mound, 9th century. See also these photos, the MAHS Viking Sled Project, and Land Travel in the Viking Age.
- Several men and boys pull a barrel on a sledge as Laertia complains to Fescennius, Life of St. Denis (BNF Fr. 2092, fol. 4v), 1317
- February, a psalter (Douce 5, fol. 1v), c. 1320-1330
- December, the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52, fol. 7v), c. 1500-1510
- January (fol. 18v) and December (fol. 29v), the Golf Book (Brit. Lib. Add. 24098, c. 1520-1530
- Conrad, age ten, plays in the snow, in the Schwartz Trachtenbuch, 1561
- Detail from The Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
- Detail from Adoration of the Magi by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567; see also Adoration of the Magi by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, c. 1600
- Winter by Jost Amman
- Winter by Jacob Grimmer
- A sled designed for the Elector Christian II for a pageant, by Daniel Bretschneider, c. 1602
- Winter Landscape with Skaters by Hendrick Avercamp
- Winter by Simon Frisius, c. 1618
- Winter landscape by Abel Grimmer
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