A 13th c. Northumbrian lady
I just spent my first full weekend ever at Collegium Caidis, Caid’s annual weekend of classes. I rarely miss the Saturday classes but generally go only one day. This was so much fun to really immerse myself in classes. Along those lines, my public thanks to THL Domhnall and THL Beathog of my wonderful household,… Continue Reading Collegium Caidis
The poem’s story comes from a prose tale in the medieval Icelandic The Grettis Saga. I wrote the poem in the style of Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, a style dating from 650 A.D. to 1000 A.D. http://caitlinscrossroad.com/wp-content/uploads/Tale_of_Glam.pdf
Orderic Vitalis wrote a series of accounts of William I and the Conquest. He was firmly pro-Norman, but even he was appalled at the level of human suffering as as result of William’s Harrowing of the North in 1069-70. He wrote, In consequence so serious a scarcity was felt in England and so terrible a… Continue Reading Orderic Vitalis on the Harrowing of the North
(My thanks to Conquest where I discovered the Charter.) Henry, king of the English, to Bishop Samson and Urso de Abetot and all his barons and faithful, both French and English, of Worcestershire, [copies were sent to all the shires] greeting. Know that by the mercy of God and the common counsel of the barons… Continue Reading The Charter of Liberties of Henry I, 1100 AD
I have a couple of dresses I wear for tourneys that would be fine for upcoming Great Western War. However, the one thing I DON’T like about researching a given period is that the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know — and how much you didn’t know when you sewed your… Continue Reading Sewing for War