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Link Compendium (Started 2/18/08 - Updated 04/28/08)                                                                                                         (Back to Main Page)
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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