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- Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:25 am
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: King Edmund for skalds and scops
- Replies: 0
- Views: 662
King Edmund for skalds and scops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5EI2EvBzdU Part of this story was used in the television series The Vikings. Not the bit about the decapitated head talking, obviously. This would probably make a great story for anyone whose character is a skald or scop. There are wolf statues in Bury St Edmunds. Th...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: hay box cooking
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1135
hay box cooking
Does anyone know anything about soldiers cooking with hay boxes? I have a hay box at home, actually made with sheep's fleece, which I may start to use while camping I have read they were used by soldiers, presumably to avoid lighting a fire for long enough to send out a smoke signal saying 'we're he...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:16 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: How old could a story be?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9542
Re: How old could a story be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5EI2EvBzdU
Stories seem to blend fact and fiction, Christian and pagan belief, quite happily. Does anyone else tell the tale of the martydom of King Edmund? On youtube as King Edmund, a wolf and the great heathen army
Stories seem to blend fact and fiction, Christian and pagan belief, quite happily. Does anyone else tell the tale of the martydom of King Edmund? On youtube as King Edmund, a wolf and the great heathen army
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:13 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: Saxon Surgery
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15003
Re: Saxon Surgery
Is there any truth in the tale that arrows were poisoned with monkshood/wolfsbane?
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:54 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Knitting for Tommy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3106
Knitting for Tommy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iehPi3Fb_w
It's a bit challenging as needles are small and reading patterns is a bit like reading something written by Mrs Beeton but the results are really worth it
It's a bit challenging as needles are small and reading patterns is a bit like reading something written by Mrs Beeton but the results are really worth it
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Storytelling
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3222
Storytelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJYIEnmip8&t=2s
Go on, tell this one. I dare you. I double dare you!
Go on, tell this one. I dare you. I double dare you!
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:07 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: Viking music
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3588
Viking music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je9MyJcCme0
Found this while looking for something about dogs in viking warfare
Found this while looking for something about dogs in viking warfare
Rag rugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im5lXHzc84
Excellent rag rug vid
I buy hessian sack from a coffee seller for less than the price of a coffee
I personally don't use a frame but it probably does make life easier
Excellent rag rug vid
I buy hessian sack from a coffee seller for less than the price of a coffee
I personally don't use a frame but it probably does make life easier
Dyeig
/books.google.co.uk/books/about/Medieval_Textile_Dyeing.html?id=kRn4AwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
John Edmonds experimental dyer appeared in Tony Robinson's worst jobs in history, the Royals, the very last bit (on youtube)
John Edmonds experimental dyer appeared in Tony Robinson's worst jobs in history, the Royals, the very last bit (on youtube)
Archery
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdC3PQ8wPA
If this doesn't work try typing in Campaign: what was life like for a medieval archer?
If this doesn't work try typing in Campaign: what was life like for a medieval archer?
- Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Highlander
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6274
Highlander
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxWa6pr8Hw
If the link doesn't work try typing in outdoor survival as a seventeenth century highlander
If the link doesn't work try typing in outdoor survival as a seventeenth century highlander
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: The Welsh Perspective
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6240
The Welsh Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bgFpiABKA all good fun with an excellent presenter
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:19 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Medieval costume
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6376
Medieval costume
http://www.aurora-service.eu/ From 18.00 stuff about costume in medieval England
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:23 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Telly thing you may have missed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5640
Re: Telly thing you may have missed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVWiFwWMR8 all TerryJones medieval lives are on youtube. Hurrah!!!
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:19 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Telly thing you may have missed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5640
Telly thing you may have missed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrvE2CwRsQ
There's also a Tony Robinson thing about the peasant's revolt which comes up onyoutube if you type in Tony Robinosn history blah, blah, blah
There's also a Tony Robinson thing about the peasant's revolt which comes up onyoutube if you type in Tony Robinosn history blah, blah, blah
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Anglo-Saxon clothing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7343
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:07 pm
- Forum: Music and Instruments
- Topic: Anglo Saxon harp
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6793
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:55 pm
- Forum: 2000BC-55BC
- Topic: Pottery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12241
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: 2000BC-55BC
- Topic: Pottery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12241
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:45 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: Anglo saxon potter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6566
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:35 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: Anglo saxon potter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6566
Anglo saxon potter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqy-SfrDmJE&t=72s
I have tried this and it's more difficult than it looks
I have tried this and it's more difficult than it looks
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:24 am
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Fire of London 1666
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10118
Fire of London 1666
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum ... l?id=73409 Running until 14th April 2018
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:06 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Anglo-Saxon clothing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7343
Anglo-Saxon clothing
http://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php/ ... n_clothing anyone have any thoughts about this???
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:22 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: 2018 Weald and Downland courses
- Replies: 0
- Views: 20272
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:22 pm
- Forum: 1810-1900
- Topic: Hairpin crochet
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6000
Hairpin crochet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AOGTn0irac Has anyone ever tried hairpin crochet?
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:13 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Turbans
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6312
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: socks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5868