Viking Resources for the Re-enactor

Welcome to my filing cabinet! Here you will find links to several articles I have written on subjects of interest to Viking Age re-enactors. I am a member of the recently established North American subset of Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.. (I was also a member of The Free Viking Households of Norseland, an upstate New York Viking group, for five years.) Some of these articles were originally printed in publications of the various groups to which I belong(ed); others have been composed specifically for web publication. Still others are pamphlets from classes I have taught, papers I wrote for conventions or competitions, or materials my husband and I have produced together. Each document cites its original source and specific copyright information.

In the SCA I am known as Þóra Sharptooth, a tenth-century steader from the area near Jorvík in the Danelaw.

Documents Available Here

New or Updated Since Last Time:

Þóra's Basic Viking Hat, a simple pattern for a basic man's hat; posted 24 February 2004

Introductory Materials:

Clothing:

Textiles:

Cooking and Foodstuffs:

Physical Culture:

Wordfame: SCA Display and Ceremony

Personal Display for Viking Age Personae: A Primer for Use in the SCA, or, how to tweak some of the concepts of SCA heraldry so they fit a Viking Age persona; revised September 2000

A Tenth-Century Viking Peerage Ceremony, an annotated description of an SCA peerage ceremony based on Icelandic law

Documents Coming Real Soon Now:

Dof and Þóra Build a Geteld, about our new tent (not available yet)

Bibliography of sources for early period woodwork (not available yet)

This page was created on 5 October 1996 and last updated on 1 October 2001.

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