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Fancy Old Buildings

medievalpoc:

Maybe I’m searching wrong, but I can’t find anything about fancy old buildings built in Africa, like giant churches and state buildings plastered everywhere from Europe. I tried looking for specific countries but still nothing. Surely they’re not…

Basically, if you don’t already follow medievalpoc, you need to. Seriously. Click the little + button. Her research is amazing, and you, as a medieval historian (amateur or professional), or even just “a person who is interested in medieval stuff” will adore it. I promise you.

FREE EBOOK – The Heimskringla: Volume 1, by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing

The Heimskringla is an Old Norse kings’ saga, written by Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79-1241) around 1230.

This collection of sagas is about Norwegian kings and contains:

Ynglinga saga
Saga of Halfdan Svarte (Svarte: “the Black”)
Saga of Harald Hårfagre (Hårfagre: “finehair”) (died ca. 931)
Saga of Håkon Góði (Góði: “the Good”) (died 961)
Saga of King Harald Grafeld (Grafeld: “Greycloak”) (died 969)
Saga of King Olaf Tryggvason (died 1000)
Saga of Olaf Haraldson (died 1030), excerpt from conversion of Dale-Gudbrand
Saga of Magnus Góði (died 1047)
Saga of Harald Hardråde (Hardråde: “Hardruler”) (died 1066)
Saga of Olaf Kyrre (Kyrre: “the Gentle”) (died 1093)
Saga of Magnus Berfættur (Berfættur: “Barefoot”) (died 1103)
Saga of Sigurð the Crusader (died 1130) and his brothers
Saga of Magnus Blindi (Blindi: “the Blind”) (dethroned 1135) and of Harald Gilli (died 1136)
Saga of Sigurð (died 1155), Eystein (died 1157) and Inge (died 1161), the sons of Harald
Saga of Håkon Herðibreiðs (Herðibreiðs: “the Broadshouldered”) (died 1162)
Saga of Magnus Erlingson (died 1184)

Info from Wikipedia.

NetSERF: Hypertext Medieval Glossary: A

NetSERF’s goal is to provide those interested in any aspect of the Middle Ages a single index of all the best medieval resources available on the Internet.

This reaches out to the word-geek in my and gives me so many gleeful feels.

Atrium Maucamedi: Transcriptions

I’m in a musical mood – so have some transcriptions (sheet music) of some period pieces!

Weight of the Chain (Kari-style)

metanoianmayhem:

Kari Garanhirson bringing his style as lead vocalist to Aneleda Falconbridge’s wonderful song. Back up singers are the lady herself (in pink), East Kingdom W…

Some Midrealm bards I know

Fun arrangement! Very rockstar. 😀

Also, the Known World Cooks and Bards Collegium was amazing.

The Book of Margery Kempe – Free eBook at OpenLibrary

It is checked out at the moment, and you have to have an OpenLibrary account to borrow it – but still! Free books! Yay libraries!

FREE E-BOOK: Medieval Garments Reconstructed – Norse Clothing Patterns

By Lilli Fransen, Anna Nørgård and Else Østergård, translated by Shelly Nordtorp-Madson; from Aarhus University Press – free until the end of September 2014!

Description: Short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else Østergård. Chapters on technique: production of the tread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing by Anna Nørgaard. Measurements and drawing of garments, hoods, and stockings with sewing instructions by Lilli Frandsen. A practical guide to making your own Norse Medieval garment!

Companion book to Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland.

Amazon Review (K. Duffy): While this book is missing a few things to stand alone, such as dates, It is the perfect companion to “Woven Into The Earth.” The garments are refereed to by their numbers, which makes cross refencing [sic] fairly easy. I can find a garment in this book, see the original, see the reporduction [sic], read the exact measurements of the original and it’s fabric content. I am then given a graphed pattern to follow which shows shaded which parts of the pattern are actual remnants of the original garment and which are the interpretations and filling in of missing fabric. It makes it easy to see exactly what I am looking at. I can then look the garment number up in “Woven Into The Earth” and find more informaiton [sic], such as when and where the garment was unearthed, and in some cases even the specific location on a map of Greenland where it was found. All in all this book is a real gem and it is detailed enough for true historic reproductions as well as easy enough to follow for the weekender reenactor [sic]. A great book!

The Nibelungenlied, translated by Margaret Armour

An epic poem, originally written in Middle High German (1050-1350). It is the story of Siegfried, a dragon-slayer, at the Burgundian court, his death, and his wife Kriemhild’s revenge.

Kingdom Song Links – SCA Bardic Arts Resource Page

naitomitsukai:

This is a page to provide resources for those in the Society of Creative Anachronisms (SCA), interested in the Bardic and Performing arts around the SCA Known World. (*Bards = performers of traditional singer-songwriter-poets and instrumentalists, physical performers, and magicians; musicians, singers, poets, storytellers, jugglers, jongleurs, minstrels, skalds, troubadores, troveres, minnesangers, meistersangers, et cetera and so on and so forth!” ~ with thanks to Gorsedd and Northshield for the wording)

~ So I can find this, later.

Looks like a great resource!