What kind of animals do you raise? My wife and I are slowly building up a small Saxon farm and trying to populate it with animals who are period for Saxon...
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Isa
isabel_winte...
Sep 9, 2012 11:28 pm
Greetings! I seek Lady Katherine Rowberd to speak with her about some of her work; please contact me off-list at your very earliest convenience. In humble...
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Linda Larson
linda_a_larson
Sep 10, 2012 5:59 pm
At present we raise sheep that are a cross of Wiltshire Horn and Gulf Coast native, in an attempt to approximate the sheep that the English were raising in the...
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Despair Bear
despairbear
Sep 10, 2012 6:20 pm
We are in the West, central California. We have similar problems here with fox and coyote getting onto our property and killing everything. We ended up getting...
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Laura Morgan
valkerie1000
Sep 10, 2012 7:31 pm
We also just got dorkings this year and LOVE them. Completely sold on them. In addition to being historically accurate, they have the best personalities,  ...
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Linda Larson
linda_a_larson
Sep 12, 2012 4:57 am
My only advice to anyone getting apple trees would be that goats find them to be very tasty. We lost established trees (and a 20 year old grape arbor) the...
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Despair Bear
despairbear
Sep 12, 2012 4:10 pm
Yes, one of the sayings we have here on our farm is "goats are b@stards". In the surviving Tax records of the period goats are rarely mentioned but sheep and...
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lilinah@...
urtatim_alqu...
Sep 13, 2012 10:28 pm
... But so much smarter than sheep, in my experience. ... I suppose that depends on where you are living. In the Near and Middle East, home turf of my persona,...
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George A.Trosper
georgetslc
Sep 21, 2012 4:01 pm
Felicitations on your marriage! And congratulations on making it public to the Society. *IF* the regs were the same in the 16th as in the 20th c.--which is a ...
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Chris Laning
chris_laning
Sep 21, 2012 7:36 pm
... Um, no, though that may depend on where you are. Until -- if I recall correctly -- well after our period, a nuptial mass was NOT required in all countries...
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Lorine Horvath
lorine_horvath
Sep 21, 2012 8:53 pm
You can have a religious wedding ceremony at an event, as long as it's not required that everyone attend it as part of the event, and it's clear that it's not...
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Sharon L. Krossa
slkrossa
Sep 22, 2012 2:41 am
Greetings! ... Christian does recall correctly, although it is (naturally) slightly more complicated in that in the late Middle Ages, but before the Council of...
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George A.Trosper
georgetslc
Sep 22, 2012 3:07 am
... Like I said: IF!!! ;-> Thank you, good Dame. I did of course know what was required for validity. I was stating what I thought--incorrectly, it...
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Ylaire Sainte Claire
kaegwyn
Sep 23, 2012 12:17 am
In the past month, a lot has happened towards the wedding. We are holding separate SCA and mundane weddings. The mundane wedding is May 4, 2013 (may the...
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karaagnarsdottir
karaagnarsdo...
Oct 1, 2012 5:29 am
I apologize for the off-topic post; but I am hoping to find people interested in helping with a feature film about the Vikings in which they are portrayed as...
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EaldredSCA@...
ealdredmoneyer
Oct 2, 2012 3:51 am
Please forgive the cross posting but I thought this would be of interest to several lists I am on. On Wednesday, October 10th. Check your local listings. Join...
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lisabettadizanco
lisabettadiz...
Oct 3, 2012 6:13 am
Estrella War XXIX Pre Registration is now open!!! Estrella War XXIX dates have moved to February 26, 2013 through March 4, 2013! The site remains at: Schnepf...
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EaldredSCA@...
ealdredmoneyer
Oct 11, 2012 2:24 am
The show was pretty good. Essentially the point was to determine what kind of steel were used in the Ulfberht swords and where it may have come from. Alan...
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L Joseph
wodeford
Oct 19, 2012 4:45 pm
... From: KaraM <karamay2@...> Subject: Ermine fur in SCA period (was Re: A qestion about a cloak.) To: Authentic_SCA-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday,...
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KaraM
karamay2
Oct 19, 2012 4:59 pm
Congratulations! Your wedding sounds absolutely wonderful! My husband and I would have loved to have a period wedding but finances and time constraints made it...
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Salli Weston, Scott T...
westo006
Oct 19, 2012 5:29 pm
I suspect that is not ermine. The fur is way too long. I would guess lynx, personally. Cut from the back using a utility knife, not scissors. Take very small...
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KaraM
karamay2
Oct 20, 2012 10:31 pm
Hello Lidia, I am relatively new to the SCA and I love the Tudor time period as well. I'm from the East Kingdom my SCA name is Anna Tailor. I'm very serious...
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KaraM
karamay2
Oct 20, 2012 10:31 pm
I'll start by saying I am not a Catholic. I have to politely disagree with Michael Gerard Curtememoire that reenacting a 16th century wedding is, "somewhere...
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Kara May
karamay2
Oct 20, 2012 10:31 pm
Hi Petranella, What do you think makes the black spots in the fur? Do lynx have black spots? Lynx are much bigger than ermine so that would be great if I dont...
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Brad Moore
mamluk
Oct 21, 2012 5:44 am
The fur lining the coat is most likely lynx or leopard belly fur. It looks too long to be ermine to my eye. I would look for an affordable lynx fur coat to...
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Ylaire Sainte Claire
kaegwyn
Oct 25, 2012 12:59 pm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html For those of you who were not able to watch this when it aired, it is available online at the...
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Andrea Luxenburg
huwydd
Oct 25, 2012 3:39 pm
I know that in medieval thought, each of the seven liberal arts (Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy) was governed by one...
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Jennifer Kobayashi
jhkob
Oct 25, 2012 4:03 pm
... From Dante's "Convivo": http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/ConvivioII.htm#_Toc189547314 Here it is grammer-Moon, dialectics-Mercury,...
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Marguerite fitz William
bedenhill
Oct 29, 2012 10:52 pm
Greetings to the list, This is for those of you in the Pacific Northwest region of the US (and BC for you Canadians) who are members of the Society for...
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L Joseph
wodeford
Oct 30, 2012 10:21 pm
... From: Zachary Smith <griffonvert@...> Subject: Re: Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to Authentic_SCA. Visit today! To: "Authentic_SCA Moderator"...