Anglo-Saxon-msg - 2/2/15
Anglo-Saxon history, clothing and culture.
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From: aj at wg.icl.co.uk (Tony Jebson)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Buring Times and Weenie Roast
Date: 31 Oct 1994 11:31:32 -0600
TRISTAN CLAIR DE LUNE (v081lu33 at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) writes:
> For one, by "co-opted" pagan, etc. forms, I meant that a lot of
> Christian holidays happen to coincide with pagan holidays. For instance,
> making Christmas December 25 helped make the religion more palatable to
> the Romans. And for another example, there was a version of the Gospels
> written as a Saxon ballad.
On the issue of the Anglo-Saxons and paganism, I think I ought to expand
on what Tristan has said.
There are two types of paganism that must be considered when talking about
Anglo-Saxon England:
First, English Paganism. That is, paganism within the Anglo-Saxon population.
The Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity quite early, starting with
St. Augustines mission in 597. By the time of Bede England had been converted.
Second, paganism *within* England. That is, paganism re-introduced by
successive waves of Scandinavian settlers. This was problem that the
English Church had to contend with from about 750-800 until the Norman
Conquest!
Little is known about English paganism. Early writer such as Bede are
silent about pagan practises in England (understandably, they wish to
promote Christianity). It is known that the pagan English worshipped the
Germanic pantheon, but little is known about *how*. One piece of evidence
for English paganism has survived to the present day. Consider the names of
the days of the week: Sun day, Moon day, Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thunor's
day, and Friya's day! Other pieces of evidence can be found within things
like the Rune Peom, and a set of Metrical Charms (you can call some of them
spells if you like ;) ).
The Scandinavian pagan influx appears to have had some influence over
popular belief: there are a handful of Northumbrian place names and
picture stones that can be considered as evidence, and the 11th century
laws of Cnut speak out strongly against pagan practises such as witchcraft
and divination. However, it had >>NO<< influence at all on the surviving
literature (which is primarily southern, and not from the area of Viking
settlement).
However, I'm not sure that I would use literature as evidence of "populist"
religion. Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England was restricted to the church and
a small group of nobles. Also, much of the literature that survives requires
quite a high sophisticated of knowledge about the basis of Christianity, and
can't really be considered as a pagans guide to Christianity. Much of this
literature was intended to be used within the established church rather
than as texts for missionaries.
BTW, none of the four Gospels survives in verse form. The closest are
three poems (known as Christ A, B, C) which tell of Christ coming to earth,
his ascension, and his return as judge. There are also sections of the
Old Testament which survive in verse. All the Gospels survive in prose
translation.
--- Tony Jebson
From: aj at wg.icl.co.uk (Tony Jebson)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: 5th c. England: sources
Date: 22 Nov 1994 03:23:55 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Mellyrn (mellyrn at enh.nist.gov) writes:
> Anybody know of some good treatises on 5thc English history?
Well, you could try some of the following:
Gildas: Arthurian Period sources Vol. 7.
ISBN 0 85033 296 6
[Gildas wrote in the mid 5th century; translation and Latin.]
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Ed. Steven Bassett
[collection of papers about the origin of some of the more obscure
A-S kingdoms: Hwicce, the Magonsaete, etc. Well know contributors include
David Dumville, Barbara Yorke, Margaret Gelling]
The Age of Sutton Hoo
Ed. Martin Carver
[collection of papers, mostly archaeological though some discuss
symbolism; vocabulary of "Beowulf"; etc]
The English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century
N.J.Higham
[in-depth discussion of Britain in the time of Gildas. Though I
personally think he reads a little too much into Gildas]
Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons,
Nicholas Higham
[good discussion of sub-Roman England and the coming of the Saxons. Loads
of Archaeology + Gildas (see above!)].
> How about 10th-11thc Ireland?
Nope... I know nothing!
--- Tony Jebson
From: priest at vassar.edu (Carolyn Priest-Dorman)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Viking and Anglo-Saxon Hats
Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:38:20 GMT
Organization: Vassar College
Greeting from Thora Sharptooth!
About the ninth to eleventh centuries, Ben Levick
(ben at hrofi.demon.co.uk) asked:
1) Does anyone out there have any evidence from this period of English
>men of a non-military nature (i.e. civilians) wearing hats (with the
>notable exception of the well known manuscript showing the king and
>his Witan wearing their ëdunces' capsí), or were hats seen primarily
>as the mark of a military man?
The best single source I have for this is Gale Owen-Crocker's _Dress in
Anglo-Saxon England_, which suggests that hats may not have been
particularly common in the tenth and eleventh centuries. She mentions
the "hufe," an ecclesiastical cap of some sort, but most other headgear
appears to have been military in nature.
>2) We are all familiar with the rather stylish Viking' fur-brimmed
>leather hat, used by Viking re-enactors all around the world,
>but what evidence is there for its use in this period, particularly
>in western Scandinavia and the British Isles? Was it really used or
>is it another one of those items, like cross-gartered leg bindings
>and double-headed axes, that are more common in modern reconstructions
>than contemporary sources?
At least two main types of men's headwear have been found in Sweden, in
the Birka men's graves of the ninth and tenth centuries. One type
(Hagg's "Type A") has been mutated by many re-enactors into the
aforementioned fur-brimmed leather hat, although the originals appear
to have been neither leather nor fur-brimmed. Both types of headgear
correlate to a specific men's overgarment, believed by some historians
to have been a Rus military garment.
However, I haven't seen any archaeological sources that conclusively
document any specific type of men's headgear in the western Viking
milieu in the same period.
For sources, contact me privately.
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Carolyn Priest-Dorman Thora Sharptooth
priest at vassar.edu Frostahlid, Austrrik
Gules, three square weaver's tablets in bend Or
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From: mulvanem at fp.co.nz (Maggie Mulvaney)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: What did they do with the skirt edges?
Date: 19 May 1996 01:58:36 GMT
Organization: Fisher & Paykel Limited.
David Friedman (ddfr at best.com) wrote:
: > Someone wrote:
: > > Hmmm, I thought the assumption was one of birth not social status. The
: > > two are not necessarily the same, are they?
: > Someone replied:
That was Bryan.
: > >>Before 1800, you bet your biffy, they were!
: I asked:
: > Who was Harold Godwinsson's grandfather?
: Bryan replied:
: > Ah, so this sort of social mobility can thus be ascertained to be the norm,
: > the dominant cultural emic and etic, the most likely way things were done,
: > eh?
: I do not see how that follows from what I posted. The claim was that birth
: rank and social status were "necessarily the same"--indeed that you can
: "bet your biffy ... they were." One counterexample is sufficient to
: refute "necessarily the same," and there are quite a lot.
To add to that - with documentation - Read the paper entitled 'The Thriving
of the Anglo-Saxon Ceorl' by Sir F.M. Stenton, published in
Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England
1970 Oxford University Press
It wasn't particularly common, but it was in no way impossible. It _was unusual
for the grandson of a Ceorl to become King of England, but Harold's time was
unusual anyway. On the other hand, a Ceorl could quite conceivably aspire to
become a Thegn.
Cheerfully
Muireann ingen Eoghain
From: hrjones at uclink.berkeley.edu (Heather Rose Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon?
Date: 23 Oct 1996 03:57:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Terry Aucoin (HDXQ27A at prodigy.com) wrote:
: Hi I have read a little about the Anglo Saxons and wanted to know what
: did they wear? Clothing that is? I know from an article I read they used
: Chainmail mostly as armor, round or tear drop shields.
The best single source I've found on Anglo-Saxon clothing is Gale R.
Owen-Crocker's "Dress in Anglo-Saxon England" (Manchester University
Press, 1986, ISBN 0-7190-1818-8).
: Where their names the same like the Vikings?
Many Anglo-Saxon names are cognate with Old Norse names, but the spelling
and pronunciation will be somewhat different. E.g., Old Norse
"A{dh}alvaldr" versus Anglo-Saxon "AEthelweald".
Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
From: David Corliss <corlisd at aa.wl.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon?
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 17:03:50 -0400
Organization: Retro Team, Parke-Davis Ann Arbor
Heather Rose Jones wrote:
> Terry Aucoin (HDXQ27A at prodigy.com) wrote:
>
> : Hi I have read a little about the Anglo Saxons and wanted to know what
> : did they wear? Clothing that is? I know from an article I read they used
> : Chainmail mostly as armor, round or tear drop shields.
>
> The best single source I've found on Anglo-Saxon clothing is Gale R.
> Owen-Crocker's "Dress in Anglo-Saxon England" (Manchester University
> Press, 1986, ISBN 0-7190-1818-8).
This is indeed a very fine source. Allow me to give you a strong caution concerning existing documentation on Anglo-Saxon Culture: It is _very_ strongly slanted toward a very narrow time frame: February to October of 1066. Your present knowledge reflects this: you describe the equipment of a small elite fighting force, the Housecarls, that fought in the war of 1066. If your particular area of interest is the time of the Norman Invasion, there is much available. Some is excellent; other is less good. Much is based on subjective interpretation of a single article: the Bayeaux Tapetry. If you find your interest lying in a different period of Anglo-Saxon Culture, you will need
to do a bit of searching.
> : Where their names the same like the Vikings?
>
> Many Anglo-Saxon names are cognate with Old Norse names, but the spelling
> and pronunciation will be somewhat different. E.g., Old Norse
> "A{dh}alvaldr" versus Anglo-Saxon "AEthelweald".
>
> Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
Another fine observation from Tangwystyl - she must have some Saxon in her, for when have the dark Welsh been so erudite?
A modern analogy may help. The language spoken in the American Midwest, American
Southeast, New England, England, Scotland, Australia, and Kenya are often so different that basic comprehension is threatened. Yet, all these languages go by the title "English". Similarly, at the time of the Conquest, Angles,Saxons, Danes, Swedes, Norse, Icelanders, Frisians (living on the islands off the coast of what is now the Netherlands), and the Dutch all spoke for what passed as a single language. (The Icelanders still speak their version of it; Norse is little changed.) During the late Saxon period, these languages had as much in common as the diffent varieties of English do today. A Saxon speaking to a person from Norway probably encountered a situation similar to you speaking to a person from Kenya, Australia, or Louisiana.
If there is anything I can do for you, do not hesitate to write me.
Beorthwine of Grafham Wood
David Corliss
corlisd at aa.wl.com
From: hrjones at uclink.berkeley.edu (Heather Rose Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon?
Date: 2 Nov 1996 01:25:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
David Corliss (corlisd at aa.wl.com) wrote:
: Heather Rose Jones wrote:
: > The best single source I've found on Anglo-Saxon clothing is Gale R.
: > Owen-Crocker's "Dress in Anglo-Saxon England" (Manchester University
: > Press, 1986, ISBN 0-7190-1818-8).
: This is indeed a very fine source. Allow me to give you a strong caution
: concerning existing documentation on Anglo-Saxon Culture: It is _very_
: strongly slanted toward avery narrow time frame: February to October of 1066.
I don't think you meant to imply that Owen-Crocker's book was this
narrowly focussed, but let me re-emphasize, its coverage is quite broad
and deep with respect to AS culture.
<snip>
: Another fine observation from Tangwystyl - she must have some Saxon in her,
: for when have the dark Welsh been so erudite?
[icily] I BEG your pardon!
Tangwystyl
From: mulvanem at fp.co.nz
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon?
Date: 8 Nov 1996 02:21:17 GMT
Organization: magh_seireadh
In article <54ile9$1u1k at useneta1.news.prodigy.com> <54k53h$m67 at agate.berkeley.edu> <327A65B6.3760 at aa.wl.com>,
David Corliss <corlisd at aa.wl.com> wrote:
> Heather Rose Jones wrote:
> > The best single source I've found on Anglo-Saxon clothing is Gale R.
> > Owen-Crocker's "Dress in Anglo-Saxon England" (Manchester University
> > Press, 1986, ISBN 0-7190-1818-8).
> This is indeed a very fine source. Allow me to give you a strong caution
> concerning existing documentation on Anglo-Saxon Culture: It is _very_
> strongly slanted toward a very narrow time frame: February to October of 1066. > Your present knowlegde reflects this: you describe the equipment of a small
> elite fighting force, the Housecarls, that fought in the war of 1066. If your
> particular area of interest is the time of the Norman Invasion, there is much
> available. Some is excellent; other is less good. Much is based on subjective
> interpretation of a single article: the Bayeaux Tapetry. If you find your
> interest lying in a different period of Anglo-Saxon Culture, you will need
> to do a bit of searching.
While this is not actually true for Owen-Crocker's book, it _is_ almost true for
many other tomes out there. I'd like to amend it, though. Much documentation exists for _early_ Anglo-Saxon times, mainly in the form of primary sources, documents and archaeological finds. These latter tend to lessen as the Christianising of the Saxons meant less gravegoods being put aside for our convenience. Documentation picks up again from the end of the tenth century, and frustratingly, the biggest single source of documentation, the Domesday book, was provided by the Normans. Damn inconsiderate, really, especially for those of us interested in the intervening time. There is stuff available, however.
One note on Owen-Crocker's book - her theories are not universally accepted.
As a backup I suggest looking at the HMSO book on textiles and clothing. It
is much later, of course, but many of the techniques described therein are
valid for earlier times, based on what little such documentation I've been able
to find from other sources, and there is some discussion on background data.
While I am nowhere near the calibre of expertise of Tangwystyl or Beorthwine,
feel free to contact me if you want to talk Anglo-Saxon clothing... <g>
Muireann ingen Eoghain
Resident of the most Fair Southern Reaches of Caid
From: djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Saxon Cloaks
Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:27:29 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Nothmund <nothmund at aol.com> wrote:
> I am planning to make a cloak, and would like some information as to
>the type of cloak that would have been worn by a saxon of the late nineth
>century...
The usual cloak for men of that period was a rectangle, draped
around the neck and pinned on the right shoulder, leaving the
swordarm free. If the cloak was very large--the size of a
blanket--it could be folded in half before being pinned. For
more details, see if you can find a copy of Gail Owen-Crocker's
_Dress in Anglo-Saxon England,_ Manchester University Press,
1986. This is the best source I know of.
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West Albany, California
PRO DEO ET REGE djheydt at uclink
Newsgroups: rec.food.historic,rec.org.sca
From: wp823 at freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Jo Beverley)
Subject: Re: history of mustard
Organization: Victoria Freenet Association
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:12:38 GMT
As a lurker here (I confess, I just skim through looking for anything
that might berelevant to one of my romance novels) I'll contribute the
fact that mustard seed was known and used in Anglo-Saxon times.
If anyone here is interested in research of that period, a UK company
called Anglo Saxon Books puts out some detailed works, such a two-volume
set on food. I use them because my novels are late 11th, early 12th
century and most books favor the later period.
http://www.anglo-saxon.demon.co.uk/asbooks/
Jo Beverley
From: djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Pre-Norman invasion clothing.
Date: 6 Mar 1997 04:19:58 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Aethelwulf <uptoic at hg.uleth.ca> wrote:
|I am looking for information on the styles of men's clothing worn during
|the late tenth-early eleventh centuries. Also, any information on where
|to find patterns would be appreciated.
Try to find a copy (in your friendly neighborhood university
library is likeliest) of Gale Owen-Crocker's _Dress in Anglo-
Saxon England_ (Manchester University Press, 1986). In this
book Owen-Crocker assembled all the *facts* she could find
about the topic, from manuscripts and grave goods and sculpture
and everything else surviving. She's a little short on
*speculation,* so that at times you find yourself wanting
to shout, "JUST TELL ME WHAT TO WEAR!" But it's an excellent
place to start.
Looking quickly at Chapter VII, "Men's costume in the tenth and
eleventh centuries," I find knee-length cloaks clasped by a
brooch on the right shoulder and falling away to leave the
sword-arm free; or fastened in front and falling away on either
side (several of these on seated kings). Layered T-tunics whose
knee- or mid-calf-length skirts have been cut as wide as possible
to make them full. Sometimes, very long sleeves that bunch up
on the forearm. Hosen that are sometimes bound or cross-gartered
around the shin; sometimes they are very long and bunching too.
A belt around the waist. Lots of fancy trim around neck, wrists,
hems. Flat, black ankle shoes with a white strip down the front.
Men's hair is generally shown cut short. The Bayeux Tapestry
distinguishes Normans, cleanshaven with the hair cut away from
the nape, from Saxons with longer hair (at least, longer than
the Normans') and long mustaches. Men frequently went bare-headed,
even in winter; some conical hats are seen, probably of leather,
sometimes bent over at the top, Phrygian-cap style.
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West Albany, California
PRO DEO ET REGE djheydt at uclink
From: David Corliss <corlisd at aa.wl.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Pre-Norman invasion clothing.
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 17:04:42 -0400
Organization: Retro Team, Parke-Davis Ann Arbor
uptoic at hg.uleth.ca (Aethelwulf) wrote:
> I am looking for information on the styles of men's clothing worn during
> the late tenth-early eleventh centuries. Also, any information on where
> to find patterns would be appreciated.
The Normanization of England did not happen in a day or a year. It can
be said to begin in 1016, when the desscendants of the old Anglo-Saxon
manarchy fled from the conquest of Canute and were sheletered in
Normandy. Hastings was a high point but certainly not the end: The 1087
campaign in the North of England, relatively untouched in the Conquest
of 1066, and the Domesday Survey were important landmarks. The
Normanization can be said to be fairly complete by the establishment of
the New Forest at the end of the century.
Even before 1016, Norman cultural influence and intermarriage was
extensive: that is why the English monarchy fled to Normandy. The point
of all of this is: some of the best sources for English costuming in the
period of which you speak are from Normandy.
You can find minor cultural differences: English often wore silly
pointed hats and wore beards more often the Normans; the Norman dresses
were often more close fitting. At this time, the Normans were not yet
wearing the ridiculous haircuts worn at the time of the conquest. The
differences are minor and variable: tendencies and trends rather than
rules.
Look at Norman sources: they are often a good complimentary point of
informnation.
Beorthwine of Grafham Wood
From: priest at vassar.edu (Carolyn Priest-Dorman)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Pre-Norman invasion clothing.
Date: 7 Mar 1997 17:13:34 GMT
Organization: Vassar College
Greeting from Thora Sharptooth!
There is information on Viking menswear in that period at my website:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikresource.html
Some of the information on which that article is based comes from
Anglo-Scandinavian areas such as York.
As Dorothea notes, Owen-Crocker is the best currently accessible single source
for answers for Anglo-Saxons.
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Carolyn Priest-Dorman Thora Sharptooth
priest at vassar.edu Frostahlid, Austrriki
Gules, three square weaver's tablets in bend Or
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From: Angelcyn at hrofi.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval,rec.org.sca
Subject: New Anglo-Saxon Helmet discovered in England
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:14:21 GMT
Organization: Angelcynn
On Monday 21st April I saw a news report that said an Anglo-Saxon
helmet had been discovered in Northamptonshire. My immediate
reaction was shock (in a most pleasant way), followed by a great need
to find out more. I've since followed up by contacting both the
archaeologist who excavated it and the conservator who is working on
it. Here's what I was able to find out:
At the moment most of the information about the helmet's construction
comes from X-rays of it. There should be more information
forthcoming as the conservation work takes place. The helmet seems to
be constructed completely of iron (which is unusual as all three of
the other surviving, reconstructable helmets use non-ferrous metals as
well as iron). It is surmounted by an iron crest in the shape of a
boar - only the second example found on a helmet anywhere in the world
(although there are boar crests that have been found without helmets,
including a bronze Anglo-Saxon one). It is similar in construction
to the Anglian helmet from Coppergate, with a wide brow-band and a
nape to nose band ending in a round tipped nasal. There are bands
running from ear to ear, with metal infil panels. It has cheek-flaps
very similar in shape to the Coppergate helmet, with an edging strip.
There are holes around the back of the brow band which seem to have
supported some sort of neck-guard. This part of the helmet has been
damaged by a plough at some point so the exact nature of the neck
guard is not clear at present, although it seems to be constructed of
metal rods, perhaps some sort of 'link-mail' (not chain-mail as in the
Coppergate helmet or a solid guard as in the Sutton Hoo helmet). The
only other decorative feature apart from the boar seems to be narrow
bands making a cross pattern running along the nose to nape and ear
to ear bands.
The cost of excavation and conservation costs are being met by Pioneer
Aggregates who own the site (well done Pioneer Agregates, let's hope
more companies will follow your example in future). The helmet is
already being referred to as 'The Pioneer Helmet'.
Other Items in the burial are a decorative bronze bowl with enammelled
escutcheons, a pattern welded sword in its scabbard, a small iron
buckle which seems to be associated with the scabbard and a small iron
object which is probably a knife. There may have originally have
been other items which have been lost through plough action. The
grave also included long bone(s) from the leg, the top of the skull
and both sets of teeth. The position and nature of the skull suggest
that the head probablly rested on a pillow, and wear on the teath
shows that the body was probably not that young (perhaps 35-45).
Current thoughts are that the man buried was probably a prince or
important nobleman. The archaeologists are fairly certain that the
burial dates to between 600 and 650AD.
Other work on the site shows that there was a Roman Vinyard capable of
producing about 15,000 bottles of wine a year (!), an Iron Age
settlement and some neolithic remains.
I will be posting a sketch of the helmet on the Angelcynn website at
http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn
over the weekend, so check that out if you want to see what it looks
like.
Ben Levick
Angelcynn - Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900AD
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URL: http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471
E-mail: Angelcyn at hrofi.demon.co.uk
From: Angelcyn at hrofi.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval,rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: New Anglo-Saxon Helmet discovered in England
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:27:15 GMT
Organization: Angelcynn
"Nathan A. Breen" <nbreen at sprynet.com> wrote:
>I had read, in the NY Times online (4-23-97) I believe, that it wasn't
>just a helmet that was found, but an entire corpse and a few other
>objects (one of them a bowl, I think). Is this true? The report also
>stated that the primary belief is that the body, according to its
>trappings, was that of a nobleman, possibly a prince from about 1000
>years old. Can anyone confirm or deny this report?
>
>Thanks!
There was indeed a sword (a fine pattern welded one) and an ornate
bronze bowl as well as the helmet. There was also an iron buckle and
knife. It is believed to be a nobleman's grave from about 600-650AD,
so it's about 1,400 years old.
If you want to find out about the newly discovered Anglo-Saxon helmet
(with pictures) check out our page about it:
http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn/helmet.html
Waes thu hael
Ben Levick
Angelcynn - Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900AD
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URL: http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471
E-mail: Angelcyn at hrofi.demon.co.uk
From: The Shrew <shrew at peak.org>
Newsgroups: alt.archaeology,alt.armourers,alt.history.living,rec.org.sca,soc.history,soc.history.ancient,soc.history.living,soc.history.medieval
Subject: Re: Come and see a Reproduction of the New Anglo-Saxon Helmet Discovery
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 18:49:17 -0700
Organization: Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
Gilla wrote:
> Pictures of our reproduction of the recently discovered Anglo-Saxon
> Helmet (the Pioneer Helmet) are now available at:
>
> http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn/helmet.html
>
> Waes thu hael
>
> Ben Levick
> Angelcynn - Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900AD
This is a great site! Thanks! Can't wait for the updates as they
happen.
the Shrew ~~~~~( 8:>
--
Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
Teaching History Through Faire Play
Email: shrew at peak.org
From: powers at woodstock.cis.ohio-state.edu (william thomas powers)
Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval,rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: New Anglo-Saxon Helmet discovered in England
Date: 3 May 1997 20:32:31 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
>I'm not quite sure of articles on weaponry in Beowulf, but for
>information on early swords, a good book to look at is Hilda S.
>Davidson's _The Anglo-Saxon Sword_. You may also be able to get other
>sources from her bibliography.
Would this be "The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: by H.R. Ellis Davidson
Boydell Press, isbn 0-85115-355-0?
A great book and very readable--I've been trying their suggestions on
possible blade echants, salt and vinegar, tannic acid both seems to work
as required---I hardly ever use ferric chloride any more!
wilelm the smith
From: cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk (Carl Edlund Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval,rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: New Anglo-Saxon Helmet discovered in England
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 01:49:03 +0100
Organization: St. John's College, University of Cambridge
"Nathan A. Breen" <nbreen at sprynet.com> wrote:
> I'm not quite sure of articles on weaponry in Beowulf, but for
> information on early swords, a good book to look at is Hilda L.S.
> Davidson's _The Anglo-Saxon Sword_.
Quick bibliographic correction: Hilda Ellis Davidson.
Carl
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:44:07 GMT
From: mmy at fp.co.nz (Maggie.Mulvaney)
To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon Neck Lines
On Thu, 15 May 1997 07:51:01 -0700, you wrote:
> I would appreciate any input on period neck line treatments for late
>Anglo-Saxon tunics. I am interested in the period just prior to 1066.
>References to pictures on the internet would be especially useful.
try looking up Regia Anglorum
and Angelcynn
http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn/index.html
They are both Anglo-Saxon reenactment groups from the UK, and should
have relevant information. I think what you're looking at are keyhole
necks, with the slit either central or offset to one side.
/mmy
* MMY * Maggie.Mulvaney at fp.co.nz *
* Maggie Mulvaney * http://www.fpnet.co.nz/users/m/maggiem *
From: Ben <ben at hrofi.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Angelcynn
To: "Mark S. Harris" <markh at risc.sps.mot.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:16:12 +0000
Subject: New Anglo-Saxon Horseman discovered in England
Have you heard about the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon mounted warrior
and his horse in Suffolk. Find out more at the Angelcynn web-page.
http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn/horsewar.html
Waes thu hael
Ben Levick
-------------------------------------------------
Angelcynn - Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900AD
URL: http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/angelcyn
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471
E-mail: Angelcyn at hrofi.demon.co.uk
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:20:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Lorine S Horvath <lhorvath at plains.NoDak.edu>
To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Re: Costume Research
Try Anglo-saxon dress and accessories by Gale Owen Crocker. It is one of
the best sources I know of for pre-1066 northern european garb.
From: powers at tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (william thomas powers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Books on Saxons.
Date: 1 Jan 1999 18:00:42 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
>where I can find books on Saxon garbs,
>armor, history, and other odds-and-ends of the sort.
I'm guessing that you are interested in the ones in England and not
the ones in the area that is now Germany? If so I have appended a few
books that I saw in a quick glance over our shelves, (note many books on
early medieval/dark ages also refer to the saxons as well.)
Thomas
"The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England" H.R.Ellis Davidson isbn 0-85115-355-0
"Everyday Life in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Times" Marjorie and C.H.B.Quennell
isbn 0-88029-125-7
"The Anglo-Saxons: edited by James Campbell isbn 0-14-014395-5
"Anglo-Saxon Art" David M. Wilson 0-87951-976-2
"Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting" Carl Nordenfalk isbn 0-8076-8026-2
From: rlobinske at aol.com (RLobinske)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Books on Saxons.
Date: 2 Jan 1999 00:40:21 GMT
>"Anglo-Saxon Art" David M. Wilson 0-87951-976-2
>
>"Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting" Carl Nordenfalk isbn 0-8076-8026-2
Wahh!, I don't have those... to add to the list:
"King Alfred the Great" Alfred P. Smyth. ISBN 0-19-822989-5
"Anglo-Saxon Chronicles" There are a number of good translations out there.
"Harold. The Last Anglo-Saxon King" Ian W. Walker. ISBN 07509-1388-9
"Hereward" Victor Head. ISBN 0-7509-0807-6
"The Anglo-Saxon Age. c.400-1042" DJV Fisher. ISBN 0-88029-894-4
"The Fighting Kings of Wessex" GP Baker. ISBN 0-938289-63-2
"Anglo-Saxon England. An Introduction" Peter Hunter Blair. ISBN
0-76070-306-X
"Anglo-Saxon Cemetaries. A Reapprasial" Edmund Southworth (Ed.). ISBN
0-86299-818-2
"Whos Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England" Richard Fletcher. ISBN
0-85683-114-X
"Discovering Anglo-Saxon England" Martin Welch. ISBN 0-271-00894-6
Osprey Titles:
"Saxon, Viking and Norman" Terence Wise. Men-at-Arms # 85. ISBN
0-85045-301-1
"Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars" David Nicolle. Men-at-Arms # 154. ISBN
0-85045-548-0
"Anglo-Saxon Thegn. 449-1066AD. Mark Harrison and Gerry Embleton. Warrior #
5. ISBN 1-85532-349-4
"Germanic Warrior. 236-568 AD. Simon MacDowall and Angus McBride. Warrior #
17. ISBN 1-855325-586-1
"Hastings 1066 The Fall of Saxon England" Chistopher Gravett. Campaign # 13.
ISBN 1-85532-164-5
Have fun and welcome.
Victor Hildebrand vonn Koln
Trimaris
From: "Harold D Sherman" <HALFRED at prodigy.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Books on Saxons.
Date: 2 Jan 1999 01:26:13 GMT
Nosnejnneb <nosnejnneb at aol.com> wrote
> I'm a newcomer to SCA and I was wondering if any of you out there -- most
> preferably fellow Saxons or Angles -- where I can find books on Saxon garbs,
> armor, history, and other odds-and-ends of the sort.
>
> The Saxon Naif (still working on a name)
Check out these addresses:
http://www.englisc.demon.co.uk/ (Anglo-Saxon Books)
http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com/ (The Scholar's Bookshelf)
Aelfred Halvdan of Holdene
From: gunnora at bga.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Books on Saxons.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:54:28 GMT
nosnejnneb at aol.com (Nosnejnneb) wrote:
>I'm a newcomer to SCA and I was wondering if any of you
> out there -- most preferably fellow Saxons or Angles --
> where I can find books on Saxon garbs, armor, history,
> and other odds-and-ends of the sort.
>The Saxon Naif (still working on a name)
Don't turn your nose up at recommendations from non-Saxons. Some of the rest
of us have good suggestions to offer as well.
You're in luck, in that there is quite a lot of information available on the
Saxons due to the body of scholarship based on Old Norse literature. Here's a
few sources that you may find useful as you're starting out:
Gale R. Owen-Crocker. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester: Manchester
Univ. Press. 1986. ISBN 0-7190-1818-8. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719018188 /thevikinganswerl)
[This is probably the definative beginning source for Anglo-Saxon dress.]
Hilda R. Ellis-Davison. The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England. reprint. Boydell &
Brewer. December 1998. ISBN 0851157165. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851157165/thevikinganswerl)
[A really comprehensive look at swords in archaeology, and a look at the
literature about these swords and the mythology surrounding them.]
Martin Carver, ed. The Age of Sutton Hoo. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1992. ISBN
0851153615. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851153615/thevikinganswerl)
[Articles about culture, literature, and burial during the 7th century in
northwestern Europe.]
D.J.V. Fisher. The Anglo-Saxon Age. Totowa: Barnes and Noble. 1973. ISBN
0880298944.(To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880298944/thevikinganswerl)
[A history of the Anglo-Saxons from 400 to 1042 CE. Traces the evolution of
the Germanic peoples that migrated into England from a loose conglomeration of
tribes to a prosperous single monarchy at the time of the Norman invasion.]
Victor Head. Hereward. Allan Sutton Publishing. 1995. ISBN 0750912448. (To
order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750912448/thevikinganswerl)
[An account from the end of Saxon rule of the famous Saxon resistance leader
Hereward the Wake. Head's work proves the historicity of a real Hereward and
traces his life and times.]
LEARNING OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR: Mitchell, Bruce and Fred C. Robinson, eds. A
Guide to Old English. 5th ed. New York: Basil Blackwell. 1991. ISBN
0631166572. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0631166572/thevikinganswerl) [This is
the most widely used and is my recommendation].
Sweet, Henry. Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer. Norman Davis (Ed.) 15th ed. Oxford:
Oxford Univ Press. 1975. ISBN: 0198111789. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198111789/thevikinganswerl)
Cassidy, F.J., R. Ringler, James Wilson Bright. Bright's Old English Grammar
and Reader. 3rd ed. Holt Rinehart & Winston. 1997. ISBN. 0030847133. (To
order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0030847133/thevikinganswerl)
Diamond, Robert E. Old English Grammar and Reader. Wayne State Univ Pr. 1973.
ISBN 0814315100. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814315100/thevikinganswerl)
Quirk, Randolph, C.L. Wrenn. An Old English Grammar. Northern Illinois Univ
Pr. 1994. ISBN: 0875805604. (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875805604/thevikinganswerl)
Campbell, Alan. Old English Grammar Oxford: Clarendon. 1983. ISBN 0198119437.
(To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198119437/thevikinganswerl)
DICTIONARIES:
Barney, Stephen A. Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary. 2nd
ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1985. ISBN 0300035063. (To order from
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300035063/thevikinganswerl)
Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript
Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 1998.
ISBN: 0198631014 [This is the absolute best of all the dictionaries -- it is
essentially the unabridged dictionary of Old English. The price tag reflects
this.] (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198631014/thevikinganswerl)
Clark-Hall, John R. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. (Medieval Academy
Reprints for Teaching, 14) 4th reprint ed. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press. 1984. ISBN: 0802065481 [This is my pick for most affordable and
easiest to use.] (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802065481/thevikinganswerl)
OTHER: Bowden, Betsy. Listeners Guide to Medieval English : A Discography
(Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 912) Garland Pub. 1989.
ISBN. 0824063473 [A listing of audio recordings of readings in Old English
and Middle English. This can be extremely useful in helping to learn Old
English.] (To order from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824063473 /thevikinganswerl)
Gunnora Hallakarva
Herskerinde
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:26:41 -0500
From: Melanie Wilson <MelanieWilson at compuserve.com>
To: Blind.Copy.Receiver at compuserve.com
Subject: New book Anglo Saxon Weapons & Warfare
A friend of mine, Richard Underwood's new book Anglo Saxon Weapons & Warfare
is out in Feb 1999 for those interested in that area.
ISBN 0 75241427 it is GBP 18.99
Not sure if it is going to the States too, but I'm stocking it if you want
it, and can't get it.
Mel
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 02:09:03 -0500
From: Melanie Wilson <MelanieWilson at compuserve.com>
To: LIST SCA arts <sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Anglo Saxon, Axes, NO Saws & Feet
I saw I program we have here last night called meet the ancestors, they dig
up sombody & try to find out more about it, reconstruct the face etc etc.
Anyway yesterday they found what the thought was and Anglo Saxon male. A
couple on interesting things emerged, Anglo Saxons did not have saws, only
axes. The axes were a T shape with the I bit quite short , the I bit was
the bit fixed to the wooden shaft. All houses etc were built with axes work
only.
Also they decided the man wasn't a AS he was a Brit, how did they know this?
Well apparently there are fundemental differences in the skeletal
structure of the feet ! I'd heard talk of this before but this was the
first time I saw the details on it.
Mel
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:47:23 -0500
From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
Subject: Re: SC - favorite sweet
Ras asked:
> Anyway Elysant has a book that she got at Pennsic which has all these cool
> maps where Middle Eastern stuff was found in digs in England, etc. I can't
> remember the name of the book but she could share it with us. ;-)
The book is: "An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England", David Hill, 1981, paperback,
$19.95.
This is a wonderful book with lots of useful information. Very graphics
oriented with lots of maps. Once I saw Elysant's copy, I really wanted
one for myself. Unfortunately, the bookseller she bought it from at Pennsic
didn't have any more, at least at Pennsic. It is on my list of future
purchases when I get around to it.
Although my persona is that of an 1150's Anglo-Norman I think a lot of
this info will be useful to me. Now if someone would just do an
equivalent book for Norman England.
- --
Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
From: maggie at forest.gen.nz (Maggie Forest)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon/Viking Garb: Pre-12th Century
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:59:47 GMT
Organization: Asia Online NZ
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:05:51 -0400, "Eric DeBlackmere, S.O.C."
<edeblack at earthlink.net> wrote:
>1) A merchant of ready-to-wear Anglo-Saxon/Viking garb, pre-12th
>century or...
>2) A merchant of patterns for such garb.
> My wife and her mother are really interested in joining me in
>the SCA and are busy researching that era with me, to work on
>personas. Need to find garb or patterns (my mother-in-law is an
>accomplished seamstress) for men, women AND children, as we want our
>3-yearl-old daughter to join in. And, once our son is born in
>December, him, as well.
Well, I can't help you with patterns or merchants, but;
Get hold of a book called
Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1986. (ISBN 0-7190-1818-8, LC 85-23186)
It is the book on clothing of the era.
If you combine that with a couple of articles on basic t-tunics and
pants - IIRC there's one in the Known World Handbook which you should
hopefully be able to borrow from someone in your local group - your
MIL will probably be able to make sense of it.
Also, for an understanding on how garments were made in the Middle
Ages, take a look at Marc Carlson's pages on the topic at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5923/cloth/bockhome.html
Finally, check out Angelcynn's pages at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471/
No doubt there'll be lots more information forthcoming from others.
Good luck!
/maggie
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: djheydt at kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject: Re: Anglo-Saxon/Viking Garb: Pre-12th Century
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 02:22:14 GMT
Eric DeBlackmere, S.O.C. <edeblack at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Could use some advice on where to find the following:
>
>1) A merchant of ready-to-wear Anglo-Saxon/Viking garb, pre-12th
>century or...
>
>2) A merchant of patterns for such garb.
Have no idea if anybody's making patterns, but if you can find a
copy, take a look at Gale R. Owen-Crocker's _Dress in Anglo-Saxon
England._ Manchester University Press, 1986. Very, very good.
She presents all the available data and presents the different
ways they might be interpreted. There are times when one might
be tempted to say, "Never mind the scientific method, just tell
me WHAT TO WEAR!" but she won't do that, she's honest. It's the
best place to start from, preparatory to making your own
decisions on how to interpret the evidence... rather like
redacting the recipes in a medieval cookbook.
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West Albany, California
PRO DEO ET REGE djheydt at kithrup.com
http://www.kithrup.com/~djheydt
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:51:37 +0100
From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
Subject: SC - Ornithology of Anglo-Saxon England
Good site:
http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/birdlore/fugsrc.html
The Ornithology of Anglo-Saxon England
When you're done with this page, click on the bird at the bottom.
Cindy
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:08:43 -0700
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Anglo/Saxon source motherlode...
Just found this- and yes, there's some jiffy keen food and food-related
stuff. BIG bibliography.
http://bubl.ac.uk/docs/bibliog/biggam/
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/ihsl/projects/ASPNS/
bib.htm#Title
'Lainie
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:21:12 -0600
From: Robert Downie <rdownie at mb.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] [tmr-l at wmich.edu: TMR 05.01.31 Pollington,
The Mead-Hall: Feasting in A-S England (Bruce)]
To: jenne at fiedlerfamily.net, Cooks within the SCA
<sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
> I have this guy's work on Anglo-Saxon medical treatises, and its really
> pretty darn solid, though I disagree with him here and there (well, he's
> not a gardener, and that may be the source of my disagreements with one
> or two of his identifications.) This should be a very solid work!
>
> Pollington, Stephen. "The Mead-Hall: Feasting in Anglo-Saxon
> England". Norfolk, England: Anglo-Saxon Books, 2003. Pp. 283, 24
> illustrations by Lindsay Kerr, and bibliography. $27.00 (hb). ISBN
> 1-898281-30-0.
Yes, we own a copy of _The Mead-Hall_ and are very impressed with it!
Mind you, my husband is the real Anglo-Saxon buff of the family :-)
Faerisa
From: "willowdewisp at juno.com" <willowdewisp at juno.com>
Date: January 24, 2008 1:27:53 AM CST
To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] traveling to the Court of King Alfred
http://www.ravensgard.org/gerekr/anglo.html
this is a Great Saxon site.
willow
From: Randwulf aet Blacwulveslea <randwulf922 at gmail.com>
Date: April 29, 2010 12:03:24 AM CDT
To: southdowns at yahoogroups.com, trimaris-temp at yahoogroups.com, meridian-ty at yahoogroups.com
Cc: chez_weasel at yahoogroups.com
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu./parker/actions/page_turner.do?ms_no=173
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 06:58:37 +1000
From: Marie M <madmender at gmail.com>
Subject: [Lochac] Anglo Saxon finds at Cheltenham Academy
To: lochac at lochac.sca.org
Anglo-Saxon finds at new Cheltenham academy site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8691565.stm Two
skeletons, pottery and a large timber hall, all thought to date back to
between the 6th to 8th Century, have been uncovered.
Thought this might interest a few people.
Thyri
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:22:24 +1000
From: Raymond Wickham <insidious565 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Lochac] how to know if you have been bad
To: lochac <lochac at sca.org.au>
PENITENTIALS are lists of sins and the penances prescribed for them. These texts governed the practice of private confession and penance in the early Middle Ages. This database contains all the vernacular penitentials that survive from Anglo-Saxon England, a period extending from the seventh to the eleventh century.
http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/index.html
From: Miriam von Schwarzwald <miriamvonschwarzwald at GMAIL.COM>
Date: July 8, 2010 7:12:54 AM CDT
To: CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu
Subject: [CALONTIR] Anglo-Saxon Archive
I found this last night/this morning when I couldn't sleep. It
occurred to me I hadn't seen anyone post to the list about it. I know
more than a few of us are interested in Anglo Saxon studies.
Oxford University opens Anglo-Saxon archive to online submissions:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/06/oxford-university-anglo-saxon-archive
Miriam
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:37:19 +1000
From: Zebee Johnstone <zebeej at gmail.com>
Subject: [Lochac] Anglo Saxon resources
To: "The Shambles: the SCA Lochac mailing list"
<lochac at lochac.sca.org>
For the early period amongst us...
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Welcome to the University of Oxford's Project Woruldhord web site. The
project is part of the JISC-funded initiative Runcoco: How to Run a
Community Collection Online and sets out to collect together into an
online hoard, digital objects related to the teaching, study, or
research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history. The
collection is now open, and will close on October 14th 2010. Go to the
collection site to make a submission.
The concept is quite simple. Members of the public, of academia, of
special interest groups are asked to submit via an online web site any
images, documents, audio, video they have of material they would be
happy to share with the rest of the world to further the study of Old
English and the Anglo-Saxons.
We would welcome images of buildings, sites, artefacts; teaching
handouts or presentations; audio of readings or interviews; video
clips of crafts, sites; and so on. In fact anything that you feel
would benefit teachers, researchers, and interested parties who wish
to learn more about the Anglo-Saxons.
Oxford University will collect the material together and then make
everything submitted freely available on the web for educational
purposes to a worldwide audience. You will retain copyright over
anything you submit but you will simply have to agree to its
redistribution on the website. The collection is now open, and will
close on October 14th 2010. Go to the collection site to make a
submission.
From: Anne <orionsdaughter at gmail.com>
Date: January 16, 2011 7:03:26 PM CST
To: the-triskele-tavern at googlegroups.com
Subject: {TheTriskeleTavern} /equestrianism in Anglo-Saxon England
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:29:57 +1100
From: Zebee Johnstone <zebeej at gmail.com>
Subject: [Lochac] Worouldhord - resources for Anglo Saxon and Old
English
To: "The Shambles: the SCA Lochac mailing list"
<lochac at lochac.sca.org>
Feeling like Hastings is way too futuristic for you?
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ might be of interest...
The Woruldhord project is based at the University of Oxford and
presents to you a collection of freely reusable educational resources
to help you study or teach the period of English history centred on
the Anglo-Saxons, or Old English (literature and language). This
equates to a period of history roughly covering the mid-fifth century
until the eleventh century. All the material held here was donated by
members of the public, museums and libraries, academics, teachers, and
societies. This then is a community collection created by a community
of people for others to use.
What will you find? The archive contains photographs, documents,
presentations, databases, and more; covering objects, archaeological
sites, poems, prose writings, and course material. It holds around
4,500 digital objects contributed by about 400 people or institutions.
Anything you locate within Woruldhord can be freely reused for
educational purposes under a Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA,
see also Permitted Use).
To search for a particular item, historical figure, poem, place, etc,
enter the search term below (e.g. 'Beowulf', 'Alfred', 'Hastings').
Alternatively, click on an option under 'Browse collection keywords'
below to display a list of keywords. Click on a word to browse the
relevant items. For more information about how to search the
collection, see the Help section.
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:02:28 +1100
From: Raymond Wickham <insidious565 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lochac] Worouldhord - resources for Anglo Saxon and Old
English
To: <lochac at lochac.sca.org>
and this is a list of archaeological digs with pic of the finds 400-800
http://www2.rgzm.de/foreigners/frame.cfm?Language=UK
From: grimmund at GMAIL.COM
Subject: [CALONTIR] Free Anglo-Saxon books
Date: July 2, 2011 8:41:46 PM CDT
To: CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu
I was looking for some stuff on Amazon. Go figure.
I ran across some other stuff, and figured I'd share. Free downloads
of the Kindle editions of various books.
You don't need an actual Kindle to take advantage of these deals; you
can download a free Kindle reader app for just about any platform.
So, free e-reader, free books.
http://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-Grammar-Glossary-Revised-ebook/dp/B004UJLJCU/
Anglo-Saxon Primer With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary; Eighth Edition
Revised [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-Literature-ebook/dp/B000JQU3V6/r
Anglo-Saxon Literature [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/The-Anglo-Saxon-Chronicle-ebook/dp/B002RKSXAU/r
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-Exercise-Inflections-Selections-ebook/dp/B004TIM4WG/
Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax,
Selections for Reading, and Glossary [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Anglo-Saxon-Dictionary-Students-ebook/dp/B004TP6R86/
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students [Kindle Edition]
Grimmund
--
Thegn Grimmund Blackwing, OP, Baron of Windhaven, Northshield
Dan Long, Appleton/Oshkosh/New London/Green Bay, WI
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 09:19:20 -0400
From: Robin Carroll-Mann <rcarrollmann at gmail.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: Fwd: [CALONTIR] Free Anglo-Saxon books
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Margaret Rendell
<m_rendell at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
<<< Unfortunately, the Anglo-Saxon chronicle shows as "not available for customers from Australia" :(
the others look available, though :) >>>
Like many of their free classics, it came from another source, in this
case Porject Gutenberg. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is available there,
but also at one of my favorite sources for public domain ebooks,
manybooks.net. Here's the link for the Chronicle, which can be
downloaded in over a dozen different format, including Kindle, PDF,
and plain vanilla text:
http://www.manybooks.net/titles/anonetext96angsx10.html
Brighid ni Chiarain
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:54:14 -0400
From: Garth Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, isenfir at virginia.edu, Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Subject: [MR] Book Review: Saxon Art
Just received at the UVA libraries: THE ART OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by
Catherine E. Karkov (ISBN 97818433836285; our call # N6763 .K37 2011).
Accomplishments of the Anglo-Saxons are too often overlooked in favor of
Normans. This lovely book is an exploration of Anglo-Saxon art forms,
showing that theirs was a fully developed and vibrant culture. The
author skillfully explores Anglo-Saxon material culture against its
historical context. Naturally, the focus is on religious and regal
works, since those examples are more likely to survive, but the author
also explores aspects of everyday life through such artifacts as coins,
brooches, and buckles. The book is well illustrated, and though most
photos are in black-and-white, there are also eight pages of lovely
color plates. Some illustrations show typical garments, so this book may
be useful for Anglo-Saxon costumers. As is usual in scholarly books,
there is a substantial bibliography and a complete index. This book is a
must for anyone interested in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir's Unofficial Librarian
(aka Garth Groff, UVA Library cataloger)
To: gleannabhann at yahoogroups.com
From SCAtoday
Posted by: "Eowyn Cenek" eowyn.cenek at gmail.com
Date: Sun Aug 7, 2011 5:14 pm ((PDT))
There's an announcement on scatoday.net;
Thegn Grimmund Blackwing reports that Amazon.com is offering free
downloads of several books of interest to medieval scholars. The
downloads are available for the Kindle or for other e-reader apps.
Free books include:
* Anglo-Saxon Primer With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary; Eighth
Edition Revised
* Anglo-Saxon Literature [Kindle Edition]
* The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Kindle Edition]
* Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax,
Selections for Reading, and Glossary [Kindle Edition]
* A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students [Kindle Edition]
* Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain
* Celt and Saxon Complete
* Celtic Literature
* Heroic Romances of Ireland - Complete
and more.
http://www.scatoday.net/node/20956
Eowyn
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:04:48 +1000
From: Raymond Wickham <insidious565 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Lochac] review available The Word Exchange: Anglo- Saxon
Poems in Translation
To: <lochac at lochac.sca.org>
Delanty, Greg, and Michael Matto, eds. <i>The Word Exchange: Anglo-
Saxon Poems in Translation</i>. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
2011. Pp. xvii, 558. $35.00. ISBN-10: 9780393079012, ISBN-13:
9780393079012.
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation is a
collection of 123 translations of Old English poems by more than
seventy contemporary poets. For that reason alone, the publication of
this extensive compilation is a major event for students of English
poetry, for students both of our oldest poetry and of our newest
poets.
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:19:10 -0500
From: Garth Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, isenfir at virginia.edu
Subject: [MR] National Geographic article on treasure
The November issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine has a marvelous
article on the 7th century Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard. It
is illustrated with artist's conceptions of who might have left the
treasure, as well as glorious photographs of the actual objects. This is
a story not to be missed.
The NG web site has a brief contemporary video on metal detectorist
Terry Herbert, who found the hoard in a field:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/gold-hoard/treasure-hunter-video .
Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:08:08 -0500
From: "Svana Haraldsdottir" <svana at triad.rr.com>
To: <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [MR] National Geographic article on treasure
<<< Has anyone been to the Nat Geo Museum in DC yet to see the exhibit?
If so, please post your impressions of the exhibit and advice to those
of us who are planning to go.
Svana >>>
Lady Svana,
I had the delight of seeing the horde last Saturday.? My primary area of interest and research in the SCA is Anglo-Saxon England, so I am naturally inclined to gush.
Impressions
Only a fraction of the hoard is on display, but most of the magnificent pieces that made the news can be seen: the large pectoral cross, the celebrated gold band with its verse of a Psalm, many of the zoomorphic decorations (including a seahorse, alas not unicornate!), a mystery object, and many, many, many fittings for swords and long knives.
The pieces look oddly familiar, if you've spent any amount of time buying similar replicas (from Raymond's Quiet Press, for example), yet I found it moving to look on them and know they were really *from* the era I've spent so much time studying.
There are video displays demonstrating period garnet polishing and cutting, wire making, and other relevant arts.? There are some reconstructions of some of the artifacts - many were bent and half-destroyed before being buried.? There are some touch displays offering additional information on some of the star pieces.? There are some static displays showing an accurately dressed Anglo-Saxon warrior, a bishop, and a family of four.
It was a bit smaller than I expected.? There is one main display room, a room showing a video loop about the hoard, and then a second room/exitway that I had to hurry through.
There are various demonstrations on the weekends.? I saw the "Three Faces of Beowulf," which was a nice performance by an early music group from one of the nearby universities.
I thought it was fabulous.
Advice
No photography is allowed!? I cannot draw for beans, so I purchased the book that goes along with the exhibit, in the hopes that it would contain images of the artifacts.? It is not a traditional museum exhibit catalog, but a sort of a cross between a catalog and a coffee table book.? There is also a DVD which I purchased but haven't watched; I'm hoping it will have all the video clips that were shown in the exhibit hall.
It is very close to the Farragut North Metro station (Red Line), which makes getting in and out somewhat simpler.
The cafeteria is closed on the weekends, but there are restaurants all around the area if you need a bite to eat.
Teleri the Well-Prepared
From: "willowdewisp at juno.com" <willowdewisp at juno.com>
Subject: [Ansteorra] fun Anglo-Saxon site
Date: September 24, 2013 6:04:41 PM CDT
To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
If you have some time look at the stuff on this site. It has pictures of some wonderful finds.
willow
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/education/sculpture.html
From: Garth Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
Subject: Book Review: Saxon Art
Date: July 7, 2011 6:54:14 AM CDT
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, isenfir at virginia.edu, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Just received at the UVA libraries: THE ART OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by Catherine E. Karkov (ISBN 97818433836285; our call # N6763 .K37 2011). Accomplishments of the Anglo-Saxons are too often overlooked in favor of Normans. This lovely book is an exploration of Anglo-Saxon art forms, showing that theirs was a fully developed and vibrant culture. The author skillfully explores Anglo-Saxon material culture against its historical context. Naturally, the focus is on religious and regal works, since those examples are more likely to survive, but the author also explores aspects of everyday life through such artifacts as coins, brooches, and buckles. The book is well illustrated, and though most photos are in black-and-white, there are also eight pages of lovely color plates. Some illustrations show typical garments, so this book may be useful for Anglo-Saxon costumers. As is usual in scholarly books, there is a substantial bibliography and a complete index. This book is a must for anyone interested in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir's Unofficial Librarian
(aka Garth Groff, UVA Library cataloger)
From: Dan Towse <dantowse at btinternet.com>
Subject: [pewterersguild] Tool Making.
Date: February 1, 2014 8:49:33 AM CST
To: <pewterersguild at yahoogroups.com>
HNot directly pewtering related, but there is a splendid series of research papers on Anglo Saxon Tools and their making available courtesy of Daegrad tools of Sheffield.
http://daegrad.co.uk/page27.php
Thoroughly worth the read, particularly the Microfine Punches pdf.
The more I do of this the more interested I am in using period tools as well. I've made a few of my own tools for carving particular details in some moulds. There's nothing quite like knowing exactly the kind of tool you need to get a particular detail right, and then making one, and having it work.
Dan / Robert
Date: January 17, 2015 at 7:28:22 PM CST
From: Hugh Prescott <hugh at QUINCYHOBBY.COM>
Subject: [CALONTIR] Anglo Saxon textiles
To: CALONTIR at LISTSERV.UNL.EDU
Anglo Saxon textiles & accessories
Saltwood excavations during the construction of the Chunnel tunnel
Downloadable PDF files
http://www.aslab.co.uk/pangur-press/
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