• Lady Kirsten's PHOTO page! Being a collection of really cool photos of events last year and this, involving many shire folk and others from around the kingdom.
• Lady Sofia's Directory of Diverse Knowledge

When Can I Play? (Event Listings)

• An Tir Events Calendar (Kingdom)
• Summits Events Calendar
• Local events

Heraldry

• Online SCA Ordinary, Master Index (Use this to conflict check. Has all registered devices (current to within about 6 months), indexed by blazon terms.)
• Search forms for the SCA Armorial (To find armory and names registered for a certain person or branch)
• SCA.org Heraldry Page of Links (this is the page maintained by Laurel Sovereign of Arms, and includes the society wide rules, information, etc.)
• Laurel Home Page (this is the page for Laurel Sovereign of Arms, and includes links to contact all the Kingdom Principal Heralds)
• SCA Kingdom and Principality Awards (Ever wondered just what that East Kingdom award meant or was for? This is the place to look. These are the articles from TI some years ago, so some of the newer Kingdoms are not included, but a great referance for anyone interested in Precedence.)
• Rules for Submissions (THE authority on what can be submitted, how to do it, and how to make sure it will pass. This also includes all those pesky "conflict" rules that everyone is always wondering about.)
• Glossary of Terms (Ever wanted to know _just_ what that word you kept hearing meant? If it has to do with heraldry, the definition can be found here.)
• Archive of Laurel Letters (This is where to look for recent rulings by Laurel, most especially to see if _your_ recently submitted device or name has passed).
• Argent Snail Insta-Boing Checklist (What NOT to do, and things that will get your name or device sent back.)
• Frequently Given Answers THAT ARE WRONG (Ever been told "You cant' do that" by someone, and then find out that you really can? Here's a good place to check for the "heraldic urban legends.")
• Period Style: An Introduction (You've all heard "It'll pass, but it isn't great style." If you've ever wondered what that meant, here's a good primer for device style.)
• Reserved and Prohibited Charges (All those nifty things you can't put on your device, or that you can't use unless you qualify.)

Music

• The Sheet Music List - The sheet music for the SCA-style dances Antiquae Novae played at the Y1K demo.

Arts and Sciences

• Rules to Period Games - Note that these descriptions come from a wide variety of places and people, so the quality of reconstruction and description may vary a bit.
• Artifact Quarterly -- The Journal of Arts and Sciences in the Middle Ages -complete with online articles
• The Medieval Technology Page The Medieval Technology Pages are an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
• Build It Plans & Ideas. You have to buy the plans, but they're cheap and when you go to this site, click on FURNITURE and you'll see the link for 12th Century Medieval Furniture.

Costuming

• this web page is from a lady who lives in seattle - http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
• Vast directory of online costume resources. http://members.aol.com/nebula5/tcpinfo.html

History and Period Costuming

• The Costumers Manifesto: http://www.costumes.org
• The Clothing and Appearance of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons from 400-900 AD http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471/dress.html
• Paper tracing women's clothing in England for the fifth through fifteenth centuries. http://www.usd.edu:80/~socrean/arts/gunnas.htm
• Includes patterns and images of both mens & womens cotehardies. http://pip1.pipcom.com/~tempus/cotehardie.html
• The clothing in the Arthurian Society is based loosely on the clothing of the Arthurian legends, between the 5 th and 15 th centuries. http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/archi/howshall/arthurm/grail96/costume.html
• Page devoted to the colors and methods of dying used in the Rennaissance. http://fresno-online.com/renaissance/dyes.html
• Costume & Clothing of the Ancient World (covers costuming until the Middles Ages). http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7631/costume2.html
• http://www.icweb.com/marshal A website dedicated toWilliam Marshal (1144-1219).

Scribal

• Kingdom scribal page (An Tir)
• French library, "1000 manuscript illuminations."
• Medieval Images. Collection of images from assorted manuscripts. These are images, not clip-art.
• Scriptorium Calligraphy Page

Armor making

• Animated Guide to Making Chainmail
• Cariadoc's Miscellany: The Perfect Armor

Cooking

• Medieval-Renaissance Food Home Page - A link page for many sources of Medieval recipes

Historical

WWW Medieval Resources. Useful, basic information about the use and function of academic discussion lists, how to subscribe to them, what and where they are...
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies. Sponsored by Georgetown University
• A Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603) - A good resource for those later period personas.
• About.com's Medieval and Renaissance history page. Interesting collection of historical links for our period of study. Includes a "Today in History" link.

Martial (heavy, rapier and archery)

• Ironrose: Warrior Women of the SCA This is for you, the Warrior Women of the SCA. On this site is information for women who fight or want to fight.

More Link Pages

• Medieval History in the Movies A list of movies on medieval themes.
• Shakespeare insult text applet that generates random insults in the form of Shakespeare.

Kingdom/SCA History/Resources

• SCA SURVIVAL 101The SCA FAQ, Written by Siobhan Medhbh O'Roarke.
• Award Recommendation Forms: Let no good deed go unnoticed (or unpunished). Recommend someone to the Crown for an award!
• A general Library of articles of SCA interest. Maintained by maintained by Alan Terlep (known in the SCA as Alan Fairfax).
• Another general library of articles of SCA interest. Maintained by Connor MacLiam of the Shire of the Inner Sea. Lots of links to the kingdom and special interest group mailing lists.
• An Anachronist's Encyclopaedia. Still more links to diverse SCA subjects.
• Stefan's Florilegium - Another general library of articles of SCA interest maintained by Ld. Stefan li Rous of the Kingdom of Ansteorra. This is an ongoing effort of years of collections (since AS 25).
• The An Tir Doomsday Book (compiled in AS XX) That's one of the CdV's pages on page two of the highlights (top row, second from the left).

For newcomers:

http://www.sca.org/sca-intro.html

General SCA Information

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~amarth/sca/ykyitscaw.html

Humor, but informative as to atmosphere in the SCA

http://emporium.turnpike.net/Z/zen/SCA/Auntie.html

More instructive humor/atmosphere

Our SCA Neighbors

• Knowne World Map This is a very good interactive Map of the Knowne World; i.e., all the places you can play.
• The Barony of Adiantum (Eugene, Ore.)
• The Principality of the Summits (South and Central Oregon, roughly)
• The Barony of Terra Pomaria (Salem/Marion County)
• The Canton of Nordholt (Albany, Ore.)

Merchant/Commercial

• This is an address where one can buy a series of books on crafty stuff, alot of in period. All prices in pounds, unfortunately.
• Dragonfly Design Studio If you are still looking for just the right mask for 12th night, try this web page. They have some stunning stuff. Even some neat games and things.
• Medieval Pavilion Resources. Sub pages and articles can be found by tacking on the page/article name (i.e. gallery.html) to this address.

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