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• Category:Crafts and Everyday Life
  #Redirect [[Topic: Crafts and Everyday Life]]
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• Norman Social Organisation and Feudalism
  ...the ruling elite. It wasn't that they were somehow a whole people separate and above the native population who were known as the 'commoners'. It is largel ...conquest of Britain the highest rank amongst the Normans was Dux, or duke, and the title' of Duke of Normandy' was held by the English Kings from 1066 unt
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• Pastimes of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age
  ...ge social events such as weddings, were also an excuse for the competitive and those of the gambling persuasion to exercise their skills. If there were th ...a more legs down position in the water. This makes for tiresome swimming, and we found that the Breast stroke was the only really viable way to swim.) Co
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• Music and Verse
  ==Stories and Songs== ...uch as 'Widsith' and 'Deor' appear to be fiction or folklore. Much history and custom was passed on by word of mouth. It is easier to remember things exac
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• Now and Then
  ...s a the switch. Even this is not always a perfect way to pigeonhole events and artefacts. ...arch and archaeology, by comparing what the chroniclers of the time wrote, and the practicalities of constructing such a thing today, using 1000 year old
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• Feasting and Fasting
  ...ith fine wall hangings; kept warm with fires, lamps and people; the colour and splendour of the clothes kept for such occasions all added to the atmospher ...was a tender meat, in some cases game and fowl such as plover, goose, swan and even peacock were on the menu.
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• Food and Drink
  ==Fruit and Vegetables== ...hough we have documentary proof for the importation of such things as figs and grapes.<ref>Viking Age England, Julian Richards, p94.</ref>
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• Glass and Amber Working
  ==Glass and Amber Working== ...s.gif|thumb|left|Early Viking glass drinking vessels were largely conical, and about 120mm or 5 inches high, developing into the bag-beaker style later on
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• Houses and Furniture
  ...to choose from. The problem with wooden buildings is that they catch fire and decay much more easily than stone buildings, which meant that they had to b ...parts of Scandinavia, so other materials were used as well, such as stone and turf.
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• Wool and Stuff
  ==Wool and Stuff== ...pe that the information I have accumulated will be of use to Regia members and others interested in this period.
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• Hunting and Fishing
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• Archery in Anglo-Saxon England
  # How common were bows, and were they used in battle? # What type of bow was used?, and;
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• Who Were the Anglo-Saxons?
  The evolution of Saxon and then Anglo-Saxon Britain and the demise of the British peoples is almost all due to a fairly unknown lea ..., leaving Britain to fend for itself. Despite being 'thrown to the lions', and hanging on because of it, the rulers of Britain from that date were referre
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• Who Were the Normans?
  The Viking raids and invasions of the ninth and tenth century led to Scandinavian settlement in many parts of Europe. One o ...the dukedom was enlarged, and the inhabitants became less and less Viking, and more Frankish in their way of life until eventually they became the people
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• Feasting and Fasting
  ...ith fine wall hangings; kept warm with fires, lamps and people; the colour and splendour of the clothes kept for such occasions all added to the atmospher ...was a tender meat, in some cases game and fowl such as plover, goose, swan and even peacock were on the menu.
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• Non-ferrous Metalworking
  ...rge no different to 'Jeweller's Rouge' that is used today to polish silver and bronze. A popular way of finishing silver jewellery was to melt a black pas ...d evidence of mercury, as used in fire-gilding, has been excavated at York and Hedeby.
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• Stone Working
  ...inent in France and Germany, people were still putting up stone buildings, and still renovating the old Roman ones. ...Lincolnshire, and Earls Barton in Northamptonshire. There are many more up and down Britain, some more corrupted by later modifications than others.
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• Textile Crafts
  ...nze needle and a ball of yarn. They could even spin very fine silk threads and weave these into decorative braids, although it is more likely that they on ...ed fibre followed by silk. The silk would have been imported from the east and would have passed through the hands of many traders before reaching these
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• Flora
  ...ape has to a great extent affected what grew where and when. The elevation and rainfall or moistness of the soil are the greatest factors which control ho ...or two in diameter and a few feet long. From this samples can be extracted and examined microscopically to analyse what types of pollen have become trappe
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• Charcoal Burning
  ...ath (the huge smoking crater) I present here a brief account of the gentle and ancient art of charcoal burning, as carried out in Regia's period of intere ...30 hours for 3 - 4 tons of wood (the amount we had available in the lakes) and produces, in ideal conditions, about a ton of charcoal.
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• Iron Working
  ...rged by the village or town smith. The demand for iron products by royalty and noblemen meant that they had their own dedicated teams of smiths. ...eted. The seams were beaten together so that they became watertight joints and didn't expand apart in the heat of the fire. There really wasn't a craftsma
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• Bone and Antler Working
  ...period, often for jobs for which we now use plastics. Quite a lot of bone and antler objects have survived, partly because it was widely used, but also d ...red deer antlers as an example were used almost completely, only the tines and the brow ridge being discarded occasionally.
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• Viking Social Organisation
  ...the unfree. This situation prevailed through the Vendel and Viking periods and was only significantly altered in the 11th century with the advent of unifi ...e slave of his creditor until he redeemed his debt. Thralls had few rights and could hold no land, so instead of being fined for lawbreaking they were bea
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• Woodworking
  ...that you had in mind. These natural joints are stronger than man-made ones and save the carpenter a lot of time creating joints. Wherever possible they wo ...uld be split easily (green oak can be split with a seasoned wooden wedge), and need not be sawn. The big advantage of using cleft (meaning split) timber i
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• Glass and Amber Working
  ==Glass and Amber Working== ...s.gif|thumb|left|Early Viking glass drinking vessels were largely conical, and about 120mm or 5 inches high, developing into the bag-beaker style later on
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• Scribe
  ...ment has been found. The third is the written evidence found in historical and literary sources; the most revealing in this category are the riddles. Thes ...r me, leaving black tracks. Then a man bound me, he stretched skin over me and adorned me with gold; thus am I enriched by the wondrous work of smiths, wo
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• The Cymry
  ...of early mediaeval Wales is bedevilled by the lack of contemporary written and pictorial sources. As a result there are long periods of time where we know ...amount. It is virtually impossible to tell which laws are twelfth century and which are earlier.
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• Language
  ==How the language of the Saxons and Vikings is still in use today== ...did not kill all the native Britons they did almost destroy their language and replaced the native 'Celtic' language with their own 'Germanic' tongue. Wit
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• Norman Social Organisation and Feudalism
  ...the ruling elite. It wasn't that they were somehow a whole people separate and above the native population who were known as the 'commoners'. It is largel ...conquest of Britain the highest rank amongst the Normans was Dux, or duke, and the title' of Duke of Normandy' was held by the English Kings from 1066 unt
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• Wool and Stuff
  ==Wool and Stuff== ...pe that the information I have accumulated will be of use to Regia members and others interested in this period.
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• Bronze Working
  ...n (and sometimes a small amount of lead). Any alloy, or mixture, of copper and tin is called bronze. Many bronze alloys also contain small amounts of othe ...lloy. Brass was also used in the period, and is often confused with Bronze and vice versa if no actual analysis is done on the 'Copper alloy' as it is cal
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• Part 4: Missile Weapons
  =Bows And Arrows= ...the bow end. The grip was left bare without any leather or cloth for grip, and the 'knocking point' of the arrow didn't have a sliver of horn to protect t
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• Pottery Kilns
  ...small fire was lit in the pit, the pots were assembled around the top edge and turned frequently, this warming prevents later explosions when the pots are ...y a turf was lifted, just to make sure that enough air was flowing through and to draw the fire slightly.
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• Generic - Men
  ...rousers (or hose and braies), shoes, a cloak, an under shirt, leg bindings and a leather buckled belt. Either a tunic or shirt must be worn at all times ...r linen (Optional). It should be reasonably close-fitting around the neck, and if a “keyhole” neckline is chosen, the slit should be made only large e
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• Viking Military Organisation
  ...is army. In addition the lord could call upon his estates to provide ships and crews (the coastal nature of Scandinavian warfare meant that armies were of ...verage guide, although if each crew had say three times the number of bows and arrows to mail shirts, then carnage was almost always guaranteed. So either
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• How the Healing Herb Became
  ...the land from the Fomorians and they were helped by their god of medicine and physic, Diancecht. ...They each climbed from the well, whole again and fit to rejoin the battle; and in this manner, which I shall forbear to call cheating, the Tuatha De Danaa
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• Early Mediaeval Brewing
  ...lted". Malting is the process by which the grain is soaked over a few days and then laid out to dry. Once it starts to germinate, it is very roughly crush No not the potato variety! Mash is the name given to the mix of malt and gruit which are allowed to ferment together.
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• Who were the Huscarles?
  ...Household Troops', the highly trained soldier who served a particular lord and his family or household. Certainly by the later eleventh century, the Norse ...Englishmen into his elite guard to aid the unification between Englishmen and Danes. Whatever the reason, it can be seen that this would have given Cnut
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• Nålebinding
  The history, origins, construction and use of 'needle-binding' with specific reference to the 'Coppergate sock'. ...ced in a darning technique, with a coarse needle and length of plied yarn, and where the thread of the new stitch is passed arbitrarily through at least t
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• Church Organisation
  The Church was a structured organisation, with a system of grades or ranks and a geographical structure. The rank system is best understood if we consider .... When people were sick or dying the priest would offer help and comfort - and perhaps even medical assistance.
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• Trade in Anglo-Saxon England
  ...e many things that would be needed around the farm: iron, salt, lead, hone and building stone, wine, fish, flax, antler, etc.. Common sense shows us that ...an, the lead mined in Bristol, or the salt obtained from pans in Droitwich and Cheshire. More 'exotic' items came from overseas, including quern-stones fr
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• Part 8: Shields
  ...what the chroniclers meant. Late Roman shield finds, the shield from Nydam and a fragment from the Isle of Man all have paint applied directly to the wood ...ied in size from around 45 - 120cm (18" - 48") in diameter but the smaller and more manageable 75 - 90cm (30" - 36") is by far the most common.
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• Welsh Warfare
  ...tside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare. The main literary sources are: * 'Culhwch and Olwen' in the same manuscript as the Mabinogi but provenancable from a slig
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• How Do We Know?
  ...in use at the same time as the coin. It does not follow that both the coin and the building were concurrent. ...le objects within the same layer will help to date that particular context and contribute towards the dating of the whole site. But what about wood? - thi
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• Lamellar armour from Byzantium
  ''This article and its response originally appeared as '''Much Ado About Bondage''' in our soc ...yzantine manuscripts and ivory caskets is their depiction of a chest strap and two shoulder straps over the lamellar armour. In the Osprey books, this is
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• Who Were the Celts?
  ...or these people was 'Galatai'. The Romans used the words 'Celtae', 'Galli' and 'Galatae'. Ephorus a Greek writer accorded them as being one of the four gr ...n Yoke'. The Romans had indeed brought the peoples of Britain great wealth and opportunity by connecting them to a greater Europe. The country was transfo
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• Swords
  ....jpg|thumb|left|A C9th Anglo-Saxon sword with a silver inlayed iron pommel and grip]] ...revious owners bravery. The blades were between 72 - 80cm (29" - 32") long and about 7.5cm (3") broad at their widest with a shallow but broad groove or f
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• Mail Armour
  ...of iron from a piece of sheet, or drawing iron wire through a draw-plate, and winding this around a cylindrical former. It was then cut off with a chisel ...whole mailshirt was likely to have been 'oil tempered' to make it stronger and give some degree of rust-proofing.
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• Slave Trading
  ...harters and Domesday Book, but the evidence for them is mostly fragmentary and widely scattered. ...ick demonstrates. He was captured by pirates in the south-west of England, and spent six years in Ireland before escaping.
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• The Conversion of the Pagans
  ...rope in the early middle ages. Its intended purpose is to put Christianity and paganism into perspective. ...ow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms:
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• Ink
  ...thicken, add a third part of pure wine, put it into two or three new pots, and continue boiling until you see that it forms a sort of skin on top. ...a piece of iron a finger thick, put it into the fire, let it get red-hot, and immediately throw it into the ink.'
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• Seaxes & Knives
  ...inary sword could have been made. Its length varied according to its role, and examples found range from 7.5 - 75cm (3" - 30") blade length. However the a The smaller examples range from about 7.5 - 35cm (3" - 14") in blade length, and this is probably the knife referred to as the '''''hadseax'''''. These smal
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• Early - Men
  ...e form of facings, embroidery or tablet weave, can be applied to the cuffs and neck-hole but not around the hem of the skirt. Tunics are usually made from Leg coverings, if worn at all, should be tight to the leg and can be hose and braies or trousers. Leg wraps can also be worn. These are long strips of 10
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• Helmets
  ...ts sometimes including a mail coif. Helmets were made in a variety of ways and from several materials, with the single objective of deflecting or complete ...rk although it could be added separately. A few of the earlier Anglo-Saxon and Viking helmets had spectacle like eye-guards or visors although these seem
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• The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  ...e third century, long before the English arrived. The English were pagans, and the British churches were badly affected by the English invasions. There is ...ugustine and his companions were able to start restoring ancient churches, and building new ones.
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• Head Coverings
  ...prays or prophesies with her head unveiled disgraces her head—it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved. For if a woman will not veil hers All women and girls who have passed puberty must cover the tops of their heads. A simple
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• Ecclesiastical
  ...and eleventh centuries. Consequently, we often pick up odd misconceptions and attitudes. ...a matter of choice, it was a matter of fact. Atheism was an alien concept (and one dating from the eighteenth century). Living in the middle ages, you wou
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• Spears
  ...the weapon par excellence among the Germanic peoples even during the tenth and eleventh centuries. ...le of Maldon in 991 the Eorl led his men into battle armed with his 'spear and shield'; it was only after he had killed two men with his spears that he th
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• King vs Pope
  ...ful and we can assume that two such similar clergymen established a strong and useful partnership. ...g such lands. It would further these plans greatly if the Duke of Normandy and perhaps the future King of England would give his support if not his availa
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• Oven Building
  ...st few years. These ovens have been partly due to the efforts of Ted Jones and a few other individuals. My thanks must go to those people. Without their i ...use. It had been built over the remains of an earlier oven 3' x 5' in area and 9" deep, the floor of which showed considerable signs of intense heat.
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• The Role of the Church
  ...and eleventh centuries. Consequently, we often pick up odd misconceptions and attitudes. ...a matter of choice, it was a matter of fact. Atheism was an alien concept (and one dating from the eighteenth century). Living in the middle ages, you wou
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