... Given the amount of time I have for hobbies, the best I could realistically offer is reference to published academic and/or museum sources for which I ...
If anyone has links to period Orthodox jewelry, I would like to see them. Please mail them to me offlist, as I don't want to contribute to unwanted clutter. I...
Hi Posadnik and Predslava! Rybakov wrote his book in 1981, not 1994; that must be the year your copy was printed. As far as his academic efforts, Predslava...
Thanks for the description of the silk, Landolf! Woven tapes (inkle loom, card woven) would be a strong tape. Definitely makes more sense than strips of...
Landolf, could you describe the silk used? Was it a fine thread or a coarse thread? Tightly woven? Thick fabric or thin? Was there a shine to it? could you...
Hello and Dzien Dobry -- I am a new SCA member (Midrealm, Barony of Roaring Wastes, Canton of Fasach Mor) and a recent member of this Yahoo Group. I portray...
... No! No! mercy! arrrrrghhhhh! *ahem* Sorry, I really have overdosed on these... Actually, what I've been looking at are maybe-8/9th-century-ish huts from a...
I believe linen bleaches out with sunlight, and you are not supposed to use chemical bleaches on it. It does not take natural dyes well, but the Scythian...
The EuropeanArchaeology list at Yahoo! groups looks like it's just starting a debate on Slav expansion pre-600 AD. From today's posts, some new book ...
Soraya, Yes, Kevin Brook sends out periodic bulletins about developments in Khazar studies. Sign up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khazaria-announce Also...
Excuse me, ladies & gentlemen, I'm a freshman here so I don't know all the habits & ways. I've come Florilegium, then SCA and finally was advised to contact...
Urgh, I knew I shouldn't have started replying to e-mail before having my morning coffee... The stone ovens are of course 6th/7th century, not 8th/9th -...
Kataryna asked ... Depends entirely on context. From a report on the grave goods of the Bohemian prince, Boleslav II (who was interred in St George's Basilica,...
Ok here's the info back from the store...... ... From: Other Lands, Inc. To: Sorcha Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: RE: [sig] Russian/Slavic...
Like the subject line said, please clip your posts, at least enough so that the quoted part is not longer than your own reply. --Yana Groznaia, list moderator...
FWIW, I've just glanced into my paper copy of The Chambers Dictionary, which takes the etymology a stage further, to Scandinavia...: targe (1): a shield, esp....
One or two years ago, one of you helped me track down the origin of my last name, and had some references for it. Is there anywhere I can go to look for that...
Hi, from the snowy snowy east I went to the alternate titles page & nicely picked out Da'ma as the czech form of lady, assuming it to be befitting for a...
In response to a request from a friend for solid information about non-Christian culture in Europe in general, I was just skimming "European Paganism: the...
Hello everyone! Just joined, because I'm looking for some help, and I figure this is the place to look. So I'm wandering the stacks at the local library, and I...
A couple of quotes from _An Egg at Easter_ by Venetia Newall (Indiana University Press, 1971). The classic unreliable source: "Jon Visensky, a Galician monk,...
