Norse food has a poor reputation in the SCA for being largely inedible. It's not anyone's fault, the Norse were often living in inhospitable climates where food was food and it kept you from starving. This has led to such modern cultural delicacies as smoked sheepshead and the bane of my childhood, Lutefisk. This post will go through my process for developing a lunch menu that was interesting and appetizing while staying as true as possible to what we know of the Norse diet.
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Reproduction of the Type 8 Chain described and shown in Birka II:3.
How to build a warping board out of PVC.
After many years of borrowing a friend's loom, I decided it was time to construct my own!
Making a tunic using rectangular construction is a relatively easy process. For the presentation, click here: Medieval Home Companion - tunics My Sources: T-Tunics the Period WayTunics the Period Way http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Tunics/TUNICS.HTML Viking/Norse Underdress http://viking.snapshotstacy.com/underdress.html Introduction to Garb http://www.virtue.to/articles/in_depth_garb.html Introduction to SCA Clothing http://thehoodedhare.com/clothing_intro.htm If you need adobe reader, click here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/
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