Medieval ship raised in Netherlands!
http://www.livescience.com/53744-photos-medieval-dutch-shipwreck.html Medieval Dutch Cog lifted intact from the water!
New Meeting site rocks!
The new meeting site at the Port Ewen Reformed Church is quite inspiring! Especially that kitchen! It makes me really want to have an event there… I am thinking of resurrecting Generic Dead Viking!
re: new awards!
Orders of High Merit including the Maunche, Tyger Combatant, Silver Crescent, Golden Rapier and Sagittarius all now carry a Grant of Arms. 4 new awards: Order of Apollo’s Arrow – target archery Order of the Silver Brooch – arts and sciences Order of the Silver Tyger – marshal skill Order of the Silver Wheel – service These (as well as the Silver Rapier) will carry an AoA if the recipient does not yet have one.
Roman Times article on Textiles!
http://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-did-ancients-colorfast-their.html Some of the dyestuffs were so toxic. But hey, drinking out of lead vessels!
A message from your webminister
Hi everyone! I understand there have been problems accessing this site and with the officer emails. If anyone is having trouble, please send an email to my webminister address and I will get right on it. By sending it to the official email, the request will be saved on the eastkingdom server and has the best chance of not being lost. As a reminder, my email is webminister@nordenhal.eastkingdom.org Thank you! Hrelgar