Viking Vo-Ag Display
Popular media has given us a perverted perspective of the Middle Ages. Some might believe that the Middle Ages was filled with royalty and nobility, with knights and damsels in distress and with a couple serfs and freemen thrown in, usually for comic effect.
Micel Folcland, the Wisconsin-Indiana-Illinois chapter of Regia Anglorum, has devoted itself to portraying the "common Anglo-Scandinavian on the cowpath." Recognizing that 80-90% of everyone from the middle ages were farmers, and that even a lot of people perceived as merchants, tradesmen and Vikings were just moonlighting, Micel Folcland this year is stressing the importance of agricultural efforts in the middle ages. Going from manuscripts and from archaeological discoveries at York, it has built a variety of agricultural tools in an effort to better portray the everyday life of the era.
This weekend, at the Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) Festival of Maidens (SCA), the display of these period agricultural tools shall be set up for the first time for the public. We hope that persons attending the event and interested in medieval history will stop by, look at the tools and listen to our discussions of everyday life during that era. We want to thank the Urbana-Champaign chapter of the SCA for its invitation to set up at its artisan's fair and to unveil, for the first time, our thought-provoking new display.
Micel Folcland, the Wisconsin-Indiana-Illinois chapter of Regia Anglorum, has devoted itself to portraying the "common Anglo-Scandinavian on the cowpath." Recognizing that 80-90% of everyone from the middle ages were farmers, and that even a lot of people perceived as merchants, tradesmen and Vikings were just moonlighting, Micel Folcland this year is stressing the importance of agricultural efforts in the middle ages. Going from manuscripts and from archaeological discoveries at York, it has built a variety of agricultural tools in an effort to better portray the everyday life of the era.
This weekend, at the Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) Festival of Maidens (SCA), the display of these period agricultural tools shall be set up for the first time for the public. We hope that persons attending the event and interested in medieval history will stop by, look at the tools and listen to our discussions of everyday life during that era. We want to thank the Urbana-Champaign chapter of the SCA for its invitation to set up at its artisan's fair and to unveil, for the first time, our thought-provoking new display.