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Hand and a Half or “Bastard” sword: Basics
Similarities
Stance and Weapon Control
Guards
Attacks
Defences
Footwork
Patterns
More Hand and a Half
More...
This page is intended to be a brief overview of the rest of re-enactment, a list of useful links.
At the moment, all I have time to put up is:
The Overview
The UK is home to thousands of...
General History
The Age of Athelstan: Britain's Forgotten History by Paul Hill
The quartet of Alfred, Edward, Aethelflaed and Athelstan arguably played a massive role in shaping Mediaeval England,...
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Being aware of the distance between yourself and your opponent(s) is an important aspect of fighting. These exercises, if used regularly, will help to improve your perception of distance.
1) Stand...
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Similarities with single sword
Weapon variations
Guards
Attacks
Defences
A Basic tutorial for dual-wield/Florentine/two weapons
Similarities with single...
A section devoted to reviews of events, and ideas on how to improve future events.
See also Preparing for a Weekend, a general guide to things you might need to bring for a weekend show like...
We were volunteers at this event organised by the Ashmolean. Children between the ages of 5 and 10 looked at kit and weapons, and did a range of activities:
Playing nine men's morris and...
On 27th and 28th June 2009, we appeared at the Children's Food Festival at the Northmoor Trust. This was a very chilled-out event and we provided a living history display all about Anglo-Saxon and...
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Friday
Saturday Daytime
Training
Scenario
Lunch
Market & Crafts
Saturday Evening
Pub
Wedding
Feast
Sunday
Lessons Learnt: What You Need To Go To DAS
The Dark...
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Outdoors Display
Display of Equipment
Fight!
Activities
Jewellery making
Hnefatafl
Social Hierarchy Dress-Up
Other Activities
Final Assembly
In 2006 we spent a day...
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Overview
What We Did
1st Set: Weapons Display
2nd Set: Sir Pretty Hands
3rd Set: Weapons Display
Afterwards
Reflections
Overview
Green College were having a ball,...
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Friday
Saturday Morning
Saturday Battle
Saturday Night / Sunday
In October 2006, Wychwood went to Hastings.
Most of Wychwood fought on the Englisc side, up at the...
Oxford Castle Show 2007
Oxford Castle staged a Mediaeval Fair as part of the County Council's Opening Doors, Opening Minds season, which celebrates 1000 years of Oxfordshire. We were given two...
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Authentic Stuff
Essentials
Usefuls
Practical Stuff
Clothes
Camping things
Feasting things
Random things
Things that are important for some people but not...
In May 2009 we stayed in the St Briavel's Castle in Gloucestershire - now handily converted into a youth hostel. In kit, we visited Chedworth Roman Villa, Tintern Abbey, Offa's Dyke, Skenfrith...
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Practical Stuff
A Day At Tintagel
Parade and Tourney
Medieval Battle
Battle Script
Dark Ages Battle
Battle Script
Other Stuff
In August 2007 & 2008, Wychwood...
Two videos filmed at the Tintagel multi-group re-enactment in August 2007.
This is Beornwulf the Saxon in the semi-full contact tournament on the Sunday.
Whilst this is Godfrid in the...
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Introduction
Photos
What did we do?
Thursday
Friday-Monday: Breakfast
Friday-Monday: The Public
Crafty stuff
Foody stuff
Playing games
Talking about...
These pages are designed to help train new members to fight safely, confidently and well, and also to collate fight scripts for shows.
Here comes the standard caveat: Wychwood Warriors cannot and...
The following is taken from George Silver's Brief Instructions for his 1599 book Paradoxes of Defence. It's quite a neat summary of fighting with a knife or dagger.
Note: for safety reasons, we...
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Similarities with single sword
Stance and Weapon Control
Guards
Attacks
Defences
There are generally two types of sword and buckler style – those which keep sword...
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Pas D’arme
Kill the King
Champions
Circle of Treachery/ Circle of Honour
Bridge
Spear Football/ Helmet football
Names!
Piggy in the Middle
under construction -...
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The Dangers of a Re-enactor’s Life
The Risks in Perspective
Prevention of Wounds
Hidden protection
Period Armour
What Not to wear
Rules Already in...
This is a quick checklist of safety gear. For more detailed information, please see the page on Risk and Risk reduction
For safety reasons, Wychwood requires all members to wear the following in...
Accessories
A stream or gully obviously marked out with a single bridge or ford across it in easy sight of the crowd.
Special roles
Brynoth, Duke of East Anglia to be played by a mighty warrior...
For two people: one marauding Viking with sword, round shield and dagger and one wench with a Dane axe. The Viking should be capable of slinging the wench over his shoulder and carrying her a few...
The following is a sequence of exercises we've used for basic spearmanship. They can be adjusted for one- or two-handed spear as required.
1) Handling a spear
Experienced members demonstrate how to...
We will write our own page on this soon, but in the meantime we refer you to an excellent article from Hurstwic: Viking Sword and Shield Combat Techniques.
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Weapons
Swords and langseaxes
Spears
Axes
Knives and small seaxes
Armour
Helmets
Gloves
Shields
In order to minimise risk of injury to yourself and others, weapons...
In general
All these scripts will have to be modified depending upon your arena space available, kit, time and numbers as well as your style of show and any other such limits. Though designed for...
Accessories
Two 'village' areas, not needed for the actual combat side of the show, so two corners may suffice.
Special Roles
Bride
Bridegroom
Brides guards
Brides father (and mother if...
Accessories
Six spears or staffs, a couple of bags of money or a dog. Village or market.
Special Roles
Marshall (can be a non-com role)
2 assistants (one from each group)
various claimants and...
Accessories
Some surveying tools (measuring sticks, spears shovels possibly).
Special Roles
Surveying farmers
Script
Two equal sides. One enters and appear to be measuring up the land and assessing...
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Characters
Act 1: King Arthur's Court
Scene 1: Pretty-Hands
Scene 2: The Shrewish Maiden
Act 2: Fighting
Scene 1: The Black Knight
Scene 2: The Green Knight
Scene 3+:...
For three people, one chap and two ladies.
Set-up
Chap and Lady #1 are standing looking gooily into one another's eyes, holding hands and whispering sweet nothings. Lady #2 walks past, does a...
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Whilst sitting around a campfire, it's fun to have some games to play. These are a few of ours- some are more authentic than others, some are gambling games whilst others are drinking games, but...
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How to Play
Competitive Stacking
Freestyle Stacking
How to Gamble
Ducks are a common type of waterfowl, and our word for duck comes from the Middle English word...
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How to Play
Scoring
How to Gamble
Pot
Stakes
How to Cheat
There have been several finds of Anglo-Saxon or Viking dice. These have mainly been made in antler or...
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How to Play
Scoring
Who Wins?
Lives
Central Pot
Winners & Loosers
There have been several finds of Anglo-Saxon or Viking dice. These have mainly been made in...
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Arm Wrestling
Axe Pulling
Skin
Tug-of-war
Arm Wrestling
You know how this one works.
Axe Pulling
Two warriors sit on the floor facing each other, legs stretched...
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History Bit
Practical Padding – choices
Stuffed or Layered
Stuffing
Weight of Stuffing
Width of Tubes
Making Garments
General
Seams
Shaping
Sleeve Joints
Sewing...
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General History
Society & Culture
People
Language & Literature
The Arts
Museums
Reconstructed Settlements
Miscellaneous History Links
Webrings
Here you will...
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Ragnar of Jutland Comes To Gotland
Hauk and Sighfridh Ragnarsson
Travels in the Rus-lands
The Return to Gotland
Fighting in England
Establishment of Hauksby
Olaf...
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Background
General websites
Online courses and learning materials
Dictionaries, glossaries and grammar
Exercises and courses
Things to read in Old...
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We don't know much about Old Norse yet. In the meantime, we can provide a few links.
Omniglot has an excellent overview of ON, as well as some well selected links...
While not much is known about music from our period, we hope to include a short article here soon. For the moment, we recommed the following recordings:
_Online
Recording of a sheep bone flute from...
Runes are angular characters designed to be carved into wood or stone and were used in north-west Europe until they were superceded by the Roman alphabet. The Runic alphabet used by the Vikings...
Please feel free to write on any of these topics (or anything else!) and move the completed link to the history page.
Post-Roman Britain
Hengist & Horsa: The arrival of the Saxons
Integration...
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A Tale Of Two Khaganates
Trade
Western Sources
Rurik and Kievan Rus
Rurik
Askold & Dir vs Oleg of Novgorod
Rus culture
Kingship
Religion
Sex and...
There are lots of Viking name sites on the interwebs, if you want to make yourself a new name.
A lot of Viking and Saxon names are made by taking two name elements and shoving them together, like...
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Step 2: Join Wikiwood
Step 3: Profits!
So, you want to use the Wiki to give Wychwood all the contents of your brains, or to use the...
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1) Mini-eights
2) Weights
Strong arms muscles tire less easily, and improve your weapon control. While the way you hold and move your sword is important in...
Please add what you have to this list, and come and update it if you take anything from another Wychwooder. The last inventory made prior to this one is here.
Weapons
Decorated hand axe...
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Key Questions
Where
Who
Appearance
Basic Knowledge
Literature
Women's Monasticism in Alfred's Day
Barking, Essex
Bibliography
This page is for notes and information...
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Types of Bling
Broaches
Necklaces
Bracelets
Rings
Buttons, fasteners, clasps and buckles
Keys and girdle-hangers
Gold, silver or bronze?
Buying Bling
Making...
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Rectangular Cloaks
Semi-Circular Cloaks
Hekla
Hooded cloaks
In Roman times among the German tribes, Tacitus tells us "the clothing for everyone is the cloak… they...
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Early wrap-around Jacket
History
Design
Accessories
Resources
Asymmetrical Alan-style riding coat
History
Design
Accessories
Resources
Symmetrical Birka-style riding...
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Fabrics
Mordants
Dyes
A note on black
Colour chart
Links
This is a very brief list of hints and tips on dyeing. For more detailed information, read this article on...
Anglo-Saxon women were famed throughout Europe for their embroidery. A particularly fine example of the art is St Cuthbert's stole (left), made by nuns and given by King Athelstan to the saint's...
a link to a decent guideline, from The Vikings!' website [until we get around to assembling our own guide]: http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/pdf/Safety%20Gloves_14_11_05.pdf
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Tube Peplos
Construction
Resources
Two-Piece Peplos
Construction
Resources
One-Piece Sewn Tube
Construction
Resources
One-Piece...
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Basic Hats/Helmet Linings
Fancy Hats
Phrygian Hats
Pointy hats
Hoods
Wimples, Headscarves & Caps
Hats and hoods keep your head warm, so are Very Good Things.
On...
Fun Fact: The word helmet derives the OE word helm, which in turn derives from a root word meaning 'hide'. The same root gives us holster (OE heolster 'darkness, concealment') and Hell (OE hel...
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Hand Protection
Arm Protection
Links
Body Protection
Armour can be made out of leather. Gauntlets and other forms of leather armour for the arms are very useful for...
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How To Lucette
Lucetting is a form of knotted cord-making. It is authentic for our period, apparently, and requires no special tools other than the “lucet”
The...
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Making Mail
Mail (sometimes called chainmail or maille) was the most widespread form of body armour that we have evidence for in our period, especially in the later...
Most Anglo-Saxon and Viking women would have known how to spin and weave cloth to produce clothes for themselves and their families. In fact, loom weights are one of the most common archaeological...
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Nalbinding is a technique similar in some ways to knitting or crochet. It was used by the Vikings for making socks, and could also be used for hats and mittens....
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Clergy
Stealth Clergy
The Cope
Bling
Clergy celebrating Mass
The Alb
The Amice
The Cingulum (belt)
The Stole
The Dalmatic
The Chasuble
Bishops stuff
Links
Monks
The...
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Basics
The Anglo-Saxon Woman
The Viking Woman
Outdoor clothing
Weapons
There are marked differences in the clothes worn by Saxon and Viking women. This guide aims...
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Basics
Undertunic
Undertrousers
Socks & Shoes
Belts
Extras
Overtunic
Trousers
Hats, hoods, cloaks & coats
Bling
Arms &...
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Clothing
Overviews
Basics & Techniques
Patterns & Guides
Archaeology
Leather
Metalwork & woodwork
Small Items
Armour & Defence
Bone and Antler...
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Types of Scabbard
Making a scabbard with no wooden laths
What you need
Directions
Types of Scabbard
Scabbards were generally made in three layers. A pair of wooden...
Wounded I am, and weary with fighting;
Gashed by the iron, gored by the point of it,
Sick of battle-work, battered and scarred.
(From the Exeter Book)
This page is currently under construction. It...
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Shoe Design
Links
Buying Shoes
Links
Shoes have a reputation as being the most difficult piece of kit to make.
Shoe Design
There are lots of different styles of...
Tablet weaving is a technique for making silk or woollen braid that can be used to decorate the edges of kit. Most often used to make braid with repeating geometric patterns, tablet weaving was...
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Simple pyjama trousers
Links
Viking Thorsberg trousers
Links
Saxon hose (and breeches)
Links
Rus trousers
Links
Leg bindings/puttees
Links
Making some form of...
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Tunic Design
Different tunic styles
Links
The basic item of Viking-age clothing is the tunic (also called in various places a kirtle or kyrtle). The minimum kit...
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Linen
Wool
Silk
Fur
Sheepskin
Links
The first thing to get sorted when making kit is what material you're going to make it out of! Obviously. Basically for most...
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Safety
Techniques
Guard positions
Attacks
From high guard
From shielded guard
From wide guard
Attacks Against Guard
High Guard
Shielded Guard
Wide Guard
Additional...
This is the Lord's Prayer in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. It's included here because it's a nice example of the language, i.e. where the differences and similarities with modern English...
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Sewing leather: Tools
Sewing leather: Stitches
Treating & Waterproofing
Hardening
Decorating leather items
Sewing leather: Tools
Tools you will need for sewing...
For links to vendors, costume resources, history resources etc., please see the relevant pages of this Wiki. Please note that the Wychwood Warriors are not responsible for the content of external...
This is a write-up of a prototype stuffed padded mitten, including ideas drawn from the experiment.
Materials
The material was a fairly light, coarse, linen.
The stuffing was modern poly-cotton toy...
This Google Maps project has been set up to create an editable map of places Wychwooders may find interesting. You can add venues for events, museums, living history settlements,...
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Basic Pouch
Pouch material
Making the pouch
A pouch is not only a good way to make use of smaller pieces of fabric left over from the kyrtle or pair of trousers,...
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Our Recipes
Griddle cakes
Sighfridh's Veggie-Stew
Freya's Flatbreads
Links
The Wychwood Feast Handbook is included in the files attached to this page and has lots...
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Overview
Warm-up
Intro
Line fighting exercise 1: Pulling blows
Line fighting exercise 2: Round-robin gauntlet exercise
Line fighting exercise 3: Round-robin gauntlet...
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Wes hál!
Kit Resources
Fighting
Songbook
Recipe Book
Games
Events
History
Book Reviews
Vendors
Galleries
Places to Visit
Society Admin
Termcard
Other Societies
Forum
Site Search
Page...
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Single Sword: Basics
Stance
Weapon control
Guards
Attacks
Defence
Foot work
Patterns
Single Sword: Ripostes
Single Sword: Grappling
Single Sword: Resisting ripostes...
Members:
Moderators
Admins
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What you need
Preparing the blade
Finishing off
This guide tells you how to make an authentically-shaped blade from an old kitchen knife and mount it on a wooden...
Please could the present/ex committee make sure this page contains all the stuff people need to know? Ta!
Official Documentation (on official website)
Roles & Responsibilities of Society...
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What Is PLI?
What PLI Is Not.
Does Wychwood Have PLI?
Why Does it Matter?
What Is PLI?
Public Liability Insurance is a particular kind of insurance. It pays out in...
Freshers' Fair takes lots of organising. It takes place in Exam Schools, at the end of Fresher's Week. The final day is Re-Freshers Fair, where we get a second (or third, or fourth) chance to...
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President
Secretary
Treasurer
Webmaster
Mistress of Revels
Quartermaster
The committee (president, secretary and treasurer) are responsible for organising events,...
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Shelagh's Memories of the Founding
Hwicce
This is a space for people to try and collect different records of the history of the Wychwood Warriors. From what Shelagh...
We have songs for every mood
We change them all to make them rude!
These pages are designed to help train members to sing loudly, drunkenly, and frequently, and also to collate the words to the...
Originally trad.
All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat
For twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
The reason why I'm wearing it
It's my fucking...
To the tune of Men of Harlech
Anon.
What's the use of wearing braces
Hats and spats and boots with laces
All the things you buy in places
Down on Brompton Road
What's the use of shirts of...
To be sung to the tune of 'Yesterday' by The Beatles
Words: Fred Wedlock
Breathalysed,
Crystals turning green before my eyes
I turn pale as I realise
That I have just been...
To the tune of 'Bring Back My Bonny To Me', a trad. Scottish tune about Bonnie Prince Charlie
My father's a Viking from Norway,
My mother's a maiden from Kent,
My dad preferred sheep to my...
Trad.
Chorus:
Come landlord fill the flowing bowl
Until it doth run over.
Come landlord fill the flowing bowl
Until it doth run over.
For tonight we'll merry merry be
For tonight we'll merry merry...
We don't fight for queen and country,
We dont fight for liberty,
We just fight for booze and crumpet,
Filthy Vikings all are we!
Filthy Vikings!
Filthy Vikings!
Filthy Vikings all are we!
Filthy...
Unknown
Here's to good old whisky, knock it down, knock it down!
Here's to good old whisky, knock it down, knock it down!
Here's to good old whisky, makes me feel so frisky!
Here's to good old...
Original words by Cecil Alexander, 1847
'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' is a trad. song, and the 2nd most popular in the UK or US after Happy Birthday
There is a green hill far away,
Outside a city...
(Some Kiwi verses to the tune of Threshing Machine)
I once went to visit my great uncle Jim
His wife had just thrown a tomato at him
"Tomatoes don't hurt," said I with a grin
He said, "This one...
Some men they are sailors,
Mighty ocean whalers,
As from shore to icy shore they boldly sail.
But the man I drink to,
The man nobody drinks to,
Is the man who only goes to sea to drink the...
A young girl, I wandered through the forest at night,
Guided through the trees by the moon's gentle light.
There was calm all around me, no need for any fears,
But my heart was heavy with sorrow...
Wychwood's version of the Eric Idle song, written in the minibus on the way back from Murton Park after the York Trip in Easter 2007
Isn't it awfully nice to have a fanny?
Isn't it frightfully good...
By Eric Idle, for Monty Python's Flying Circus, of course
See also the special Wychwood version Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Fanny?
Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully...
Trad.
There are two versions of Mattie Groves. This is the one Wychwood sings.
The verse in bold is a Wychwood addition, made up by Hauk in Jorvik.
The verses in italic were added by Shelagh, who...
Mary had a little lamb
And Peter had a duck
Took them behind the kitchen door
To teach them how to f…
Fry eggs for breakfast
Fry eggs for tea
The more you eat the more you drink
The more you...
A Welsh song first published by Edward Jones in 1784
RorkesDriftVC.com has a wonderful collection of different varients
Men of Harlech, wake from sleeping,
Saxon tyrants are now creeping,
Like a...
When I left home for my parents' sake,
On the M40 road up to Oxford,
They swore the world was mine to take,
With my pen and my gown into Oxford.
When I graduated from Oxford.
But I fought from...
No Harold no cry - no Harold no cry
No Harold no cry - no Harold no cry
Cause I remember when we used to sit
In the conquered yard in London
Oh my oh my - all those Norman gits
Would mingle with...
Ah, rounds. Everyone loves rounds.
Also, see Sadomasochism Reigns.
I like spanking, I like spanking,
Spanking nuns, spanking nuns,
I like spanking dead nuns, I like spanking dead nuns,
Dead nun's...
"I love the mountains" or "I love the flowers" is a traditional round (original author unknown). It was famously covered by the Discovery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
This...
The S. F. Authors' Song
To the tune of the Philosophers' Song
Oh, H. G. Wells made some fearful smells,
And Verne was a champion farter,
Fred Pohl, Fred Pohl shoots flames through his hole,
But he...
Trad. Irish lyrics and tune.
As I went home on Monday night as drunk as drunk could be,
I saw a horse outside the door where my old horse should be.
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will...
Words: Lady Malkin Grey
Music: Lady Peregrynne Windrider
Hasten o-sea-steed, over the swan road,
Foamy-necked ship, o'er the froth of the sea.
Hengest has called us from Gotland and Frisia
To...
Some of our favourite limericks, new and old, combined to make our nastiest song
There was a young man from Kent
Whose nob was incredibly bent
To save himself trouble
He bent it quite double
And...
By Pete St. John
NOT to be sung to the tune of 'She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain'
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
"Micheal they are taking you away
For you stole Trevelyn's...
Come all you merry fishermen that sail upon the sea
And listen to this story I'm about to tell to thee
Concerning the bold fishermen that sail the sea so wet
A-hunting for fish fing-i-ers with a...
Eric Idle, for Monty Python's Flying Circus, of course
Emmanuel Kant was a real piss-ant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who'd drink you under the table
David...
A very silly cover of Don McLean's American Pie, by Weird Al' Yankovic.
Video on YouTube- well worth watching!
A long, long time ago,
In a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack.
And I thought...
By Chris Rohmann? Or The McCalmans?
Now the song's beginning
Here's the second line
The first verse is almost finished
Aren't we doing fine.
Chorus:
And here comes the chorus
Won't you sing...
Tune by John Walter Bratton, original words by Jimmy Kennedy
New words by Fred Wedlock?
If you go down to the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You'll...
Based on 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye', the early 19th century Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song
Other famous versions include 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' (US Civil War), 'The Ants Go...
Three knights went sailing across the wide sea
For the glory of Our Saviour who hung on the tree
But one fell at Gaza, by a Saracen slain
And two knights sailed onwards across the salt main
Two...
Related to the many varients of the Derry Down songs, which were very popular from the mid-17th century onwards. Originally political satires, they devolved into bawdy anthems far, far worse than...
By Robert Calvert, from Lucky Leif and the Longships
We set the sails and we hauled our oars
heading for the gods alone know where
In the whale's wake we left our shores
heading for the gods know...
To the tune of 'Wild Rover', a trad. Irish tune
Knock knock?
Who's there?
Ribena.
Ribena who?
Ribena wild pervert for many's a year
And I spent all my money on leather and gear
And now I'm...
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1. Credentials.
2. Society Justification For Spear Fighting.
3. Basic Training/Assessment.
3.1 Stage 1
3.2 Stage 2
4. The Basic Assessment.
5. Advanced spear.
6....
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Basic Staff
Stance & Control
Attacks
Defences
Tactics
Basic Staff
(under construction - needs diagrams)
The staff is a simple weapon, one for which the English...
This contains the basic page template, plus examples of how to include images, lists and links. You can copy and paste the Wiki code from this template to help you start a new page. This will keep...
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Ana Period Shoes (UK)
Ancient Battle Crafts (UK)
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Armchair Armoury (UK)
Armour Class (UK)
Asgard Crafts (UK)
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Under construction. To include:
Making and caring for weapons.
added so far:
Caring for Edged Weapons
Re-enactment blade buying
Need to add:
Typology: Which weapons are authentic
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Damage to edges:
Removing Burs
Dealing with Chips
Whetstone or File?
Whetstone Waste
Is it Safe?
NOOooooooooo! My Sword’s going to Rust!
HANDS OFF MY...
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Re-Enactment Sword Metallurgy For (and by) Beginners
What are you looking For?
The Materials:
Mild Steel
EN45
Tempered CNM
Tempered CV
But How does all that Help?
But...
In the future we hope to produce our own page on weapon typology,
In the interim:
Sword Typology Links
Petersen's Typology (the original typology of viking swords):...
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We are the Wychwood Warriors (aka the Oxford University Historical Reenactment Society) and we recreate life and warfare in Dark Age Wessex. This purpose of this Wiki is to allow our...
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