Issue #4

Table of Contents		Issue #4 Lughnasad, a.s. XXII
		Hide Shoe Patterns for Craftwork Celtic Boots Outdoor Feast Cookery Early Period Library Recommendations The Coppergate Helm Odd Book Reviews Roman Women's Hairstyles Early Period Illuminated Manuscripts Oh! Woad is Me! (more than woad!) The Difference Between the Celts and the Gauls How to Curse in Norse Adventures in Etymology Another Bog Shoe Celtic Clothing Early Period Heresies Simple Stockings Adapting Early Style Helmets for SCA fighting More Period Fiction Open Fire Cooking Early Period Feast Days Tablet Weaving On Early Period Persona Felt Making Riddles
EARLY PERIOD is published quarterly for the personal amusement of Fuiltigherne ni Ruadh O'Finn and for the advancement of early period arts, crafts, sciences and research. EARLY PERIOD deals in the pre-1066 A.D. topics of interest to persons with early period personae in the SCA or similar organizations.
Good Folk, We have completed one year of Early Period. We hope you have enjoyed our publication. We are looking forward to next year. Subscription rate is $10 per year (four issues). If you are a current subscriber, look for teh resubscription form in this issue. David and Rebecca Wendelken 818 Azalea Drive Fayetteville, NC 28301 USA We are always looking for articles and artwork. Artwork should be based on historical sources or depict historical evetns. Articles must include sources and subject matter must be pre-1066. We lean heavily toward "how-to" articles or research articles. Please send your submissions to the above address. Scattered through this issue you will find riddles by Aldhelm (639-709 A.D.), the first great English Scholar. They are reprinted from The Riddles of Aldhelm. Translated by James Hall Pitman, Anchor Books, 1970. The answers are on page 40. The March issue of Speculum has an interesting article on skaldic verse and Anglo Saxon history, and the summer Barnes and Noble catalog (Barnes and Noble, 126 Fifth Avenue, NY 10011; catalog 114) has a large number of books of interest to early period people. The "Everyday Life in the Time Of..." series is especially good for beginning research. Look for the September-October isssue of Archeaology for an article on a Celtic chieftains' grave. Fuil and Andras
*Illustrations:* Mark of Ravenswood, Kieran Hafoc Bain, George Celitc Art, Dover 1973 Wilson, Eva Celtic and Early Medieval Designs from Britain, Dover 1983. Ross, Anne Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts. Batsford, 1970. Crockett, Candace Cardweaving. Watson-Guptil Henderson, Isobel The Picts. Thames and Hudson. The next issue, the first on of our second year, will contain more articles on armor, more "On Persona", Roman costume and its influence on the colonies, double-faced tablet weaving, period textiles and their structures, and much, much more as usual.

Back to Early Period Index | Back to PastTimes

Home | PastTimes on the Web | Ceara's Arts & Sciences Resources | Ceara's Mostly Medieval Clipart | Bardic Resources | Alex's Page | Webrings