Link Compendium (Started 2/18/08 - Updated
04/28/08)
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These are pages I've visited and I found worth
bookmarking. I've started this page in large part to make the more accessible to
myself and friends. They are by no means an exhaustive list
Encyclopedic links
Everything and the kitchen sink
History Links - This is truly an encyclopedia of links covering ages from
prehistory to the Vietnam war. As close to a one-stop shop as I've found..
Everything SCA
Stefan's Florilegium -
http://www.florilegium.org/ A large collection of files assembled
from various sources that cover many, many different aspects of SCA life and
craft.
Viking
Gudrun Ottosdottir's Viking
links -
http://www.dilettante.info/vikinglinks.htm This is an excellent page that
has close to 50 categories of links. Some, like clothing, having sub-categories. While the focus
is Viking, it would work for much of northern Europe during the late first
millenium AD.
Coins - This is my chief interest at the moment
with a focus on the production of coins.
Making and Makers
Grunal Moneta - A coin
maker, he has a good overview of the process and a catalog of coins he's
created.
SCA Moneyers An Tir
- Flickr photos from Derian le Breton and Alexsander the jinxmedic's of the
Kingdom of An Tir. Includes
photos of Ian
Cnulle as well stages in coin production. Other photo sets from these good
gentles include:
Coinmaking;
Coinmaking, Archery, & Scribal;
and this a good sampler for making a coin
Metalwork
Bronze Casting
Viking Bronze - By Anders Söderberg.
This page deals with ancient metal craft and research mainly from a
reconstructional and experimental basis. The page will provide texts,
resources and links related to the archaeology of ancient and early historic
metal crafts. The Iron Age/early Middle Age founders cast in techniques with
roots deep down in Bronze Age and the methods presented here could, with slight
adjustments, be considered relevant for all the Scandinavian Iron Age and up into the Middle Ages. MOST
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for anyone wanting to replicate non-modern bronze
casting.
Viking Era Bronze/Brass
Alloy Compositions - By Anders Söderberg
Medievalocity - By SCA member Guillaume de la Sudeterre.
This is an excellent source for someone wanting to start Bronze casting,
especially his casting class notes (articles section).
Taken
together, these two sites would allow anyone to get started in Bronze Casting.
More
Bronze Links
Pewter
Pewter alloy melting temperatures - Various Pewter alloy mixes and their
melting temperatures.
http://www.miniaturemolds.com/ - Supplier of molds for making pewter
figurines and other supplies. They have supplies for making your own molds as
well as starter kits. Check out their
Hints Page
for tips on working with pewter
Forums/On line groups
Metalcasting -
Reenactor orientated metalcasting page devoted to study of casting techniques
used prior to 1600AD.
Metallum_Lochac - The purpose of this email group is to foster the many and
varied skills of the jewellers, metalworkers, moneyers and lapidarists of Lochac
within our SCA context. All those who work
with, or are interested in, metal and gemstones are welcome.
Miscellaneous Metal Links
History - This includes sites with "samples" for those interested in
re-creating artifacts
Viking
Arkedok - "We
concentrate our work on mediating accurate knowledge concerning Vikings and
Viking history. Our base is the Viking island of Gotland - a real centre in the Viking world." Check
out the CD's with galleries of photos of Gotland finds
Jewelry Sites
Focus: Saxon and Viking
Raymond's Quiet Press - Pretty stuff at excellent prices.
Roman through Renaissance, though mostly Viking and Saxon. Also Belts, books and
links.
Re-enactor Sites
Viking
Fröjel Gotlandica Viking Re-enactment Society - Family based Viking
Re-enactment society depicting the Vikings from Fröjel harbor on Gotland, one of
the richest Viking trading centers in the
Viking world. The member's aims are to re-create the clothing, weapons, tools,
jewelry, games, foods and furniture of the period, to enjoy an escape to a
simpler more relaxed time while putting on displays for the public and getting
together with like minded people.
Frojel Discovery Program - The archeology of the on going excavations at the
Frojel Harbor/Townsite
Saxon
Regia Anglorum - From the time of Alfred the Great to the reign of Richard
the Lionheart, we do our best to present a living image of the Anglo-Saxon,
Viking, Welsh and Norman people in our period of interest. We are anglers,
aristocrats and archers; riders, sailors, and tanners; warriors, weavers and
woodcarvers. You can live like a Lord or Peasant, fight in the shield wall with
your shoulder companion - you can do all of these things and so much more
beside.
Regia Anglorum "branches"
-
MICEL FOLCLAND - IL, IN, WI;
Danelaw (FL, GA, AL);
Wynmerestow(CANADA);
Bjornstad
(CA);
Westmearc
(OR, WA);
Geforšian Strandi(rest
of North America);
Gwerin y Gwyr Silly Pages
(A branch of Regia in Wales with a delightful page full of the lighter side of
reenacting.)
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