Resources

• Member related information
• The History of VNA
• From the old US NFPS site
• Combat related material
• Cultural
• Kit related information
• Camp/Home
• Viking Age Living History exhibits
• Merchants
• Museums
• Misc
• FAQ's
• Translations
• Authenticity information from The Vikings (UK) site
• Guides from The Vikings (UK) site
• Image Gallery from The Vikings (UK) site
• Links from The Vikings (UK) site
• Reading List from The Vikings (UK) site

 

 

Member related information

• A Who is Who guide to the North American officers
• Training Officers Handbook, 6th Edition, Feb 2003
• Hersir's Handbook, 3rd Edition, April 2004
• Rules and Constitution
• The Village Guide

• A Guide to the Management and Structure of The Vikings

• PDF versions of past Runestaffs

 

 

From the old US NFPS site

• Colours
• Stitch Types
• Spears In Anglo-Saxon Re-Enactment
• The Anglo-Saxon Geteld
• Battle Commands and Orders
• Magazine Article - "Bringing History to Life"
• Structure of the Society
• The Spear Game
• Kingibats

Combat related material

Rebated

• Roll of Warriors (The master list of North American assessments)
• Training Officers Handbook, 6th Edition, Feb 2003
• Hersir's Handbook, 3rd Edition, April 2004
• Combat Gear Guide (CGG) (a work in progress)
• The Fives
• A Camric pictorial, "How to make a combat ready round shield"
• A Camric pictorial, "How to make a curved kite shield"
• A Camric pictorial, "How to make a planked round shield"
• Shields
• A Camric pictorial, "Leather Scabbard decoration"
• Egfroth's Helm Reconstructions
• Armgaurds and Gloves
• Padding/Organic Armour
• Introduction To Steel Combat Course Kelsey Short Youth Camp at Smithville Lake held back in June 2003
• The differences/similarities between SCA fighting and Rebated steel fighting
• All the battlefield insults you will ever need to know

Historical

• The "Viking Shield" from Archaeology
• Ninth Century Shields from Tirskom Bog, Latvia
• Enarmes, the straps of a kite shield
• Swords of the Viking Age - Supplementary Materials
• Swords of Medieval Europe
• A Record of European Arms and Armour thru 7 centuries
• Halvgrimr's Viking and Pre-Viking Age Helms site
• Dark Age Bows - An Introduction
• Archery in the Viking age
• Viking Warfare
• Lamellar
• Mail Armour
• The Gjermundbu Mail Shirt and Spectacle Helm
• Mail Shirt from Kungslena
• Preliminary Analysis of Mail Armour (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
• Extant Scandinavian Mail, its closure methods, and where it is located today
• The “Norman Bib” Reconstructed
• Integral and Separate Coifs at the Battle of Hastings 1066
• Viking Fighting Notes from the 23 Sagas
   

Cultural

• Anglo-Saxon beards and Harold Godwinson’s Amazing Handlebar Moustache
• The Origin of "Rus", The Normanist versus Anti-Normanist Controversy by Omeljan Pritsak
• Finnish Impact on the Tribal origin of the Old English people
• Anglo Saxon Culture
• Byzantium - the English Connection
• The Godwins - A family of power
• A Collation of Viking Names
• Anglo-Saxon burials and cemeteries
   

Kit related information

 

Male

• The Vikings Basic Kit guide
• The Vikings Female Viking Costume
• The Vikings society Basic Kit Guide No. 1
• Hastings 2006 (TNBO) - Authenticity and Guides

• Hastings 2006 (TNBO) - Clerical Guide

• Anglo-Saxon Kit guide
• Norsa's generic 'Viking' Kit guide
• Norman Kit guide
• A Camric pictorial, "How to dress a Norman"
• The Vikings Viking Warrior Authenticity Assessment
• The Clerical Guide
• Mikhail's Western Viking Kit page
• Mikhails's Anglo-Saxon Kit page
• Mikhails traveling bag page
• Guthrothr's traveling bag
• Þóra's Basic Viking Hat
• Viking Man's Winter Jacket and Hat
• Reconstructing the Costume of the Viking Age
• Rus Male costume
• Rollo's Riding Coat
• A Norseman's Belt
• Seax and Sheath
• Bjarki's coat
• Leg Binding
• Wickelbanders

Female

• Hastings 2006 (TNBO) - Authenticity and Guides
• Reconstructed 10th C. Danish Apron Dress
• Hand-woven Viking Women's Apron Dress
• Reconstructing Female Costume of the Viking Age
• Dirk's handmade beads

Shoes

• Northern European Dark Ages (c.700-1000) Shoe Designs
• Viking Shoes
• Jorvik shoe pattern
• Never fails Simple shoe pattern
• Shoe construction by Dirk

 

Camp/Home

Permanent shelters

• The Viking Longhouse
• A Viking Town House similar to those in Jorvik
• The Althing Camp - Recreate a Viking/Icelandic camp
• The Norse "Sweathouse"
• The Viking Age Farmstead Project

Tents

• Dimensions of wooden frames of surviving Viking tents with a standardized tent
• Viking Tents
• A-Frame and Wedge Tents Photo Gallery
• Carved tent pole tops, examples and suggestions  
• Viking and Saxon Camping Equipment
• The Anglo-Saxon Geteld
• Geteld Notes
• Saxon Tents
• 9th Century documentation for geteld wedge tents
• Saxon Tents
• Shelters
• A "tent house" in the Oseberg find

Furniture

• A Replica Viking Chest, based on the Mästermyr
• The 'Lund' Viking Stool
• How to make a replica of a Viking Table based on the Sala Hytta Find
• Viking box chair (Oseberg design)
• 4-legged stool
• Norse beds
• The Oseberg bed - Extrapolating Measurements for the Construction of an Artifact
• Personal Display for Viking Age Personae: A Primer for Use in the SCA
• Rollo's boxes
• Dirk's Boxes
• Dirk's version of the Lund Stool
• Dirk's Breakdown table
• Sven's Keys, Locks and Fittings Page

Games

• Games of the Viking & Anglo-Saxon Age
• Hnefatafl
• Gotlandic "kubb"
• Kingibats

Crafts

• Craft and industry in Viking times
• Draft Spinning
• Dyes and Colors
• Spinning with a Drop Spindle
• Weaving
• Embroidery and Sewing
• The textiles in the Oseberg ship
• To recreate a late Viking fabric from scratch
• Viking Age Nålebinding,
• Sprang - The history, origins, construction and use of thread twisting
• Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs
• Recreating period fabric production
• The Warp-Weighted Loom: Some Sources
• tablet weaving, Birkana
• tablet weaving, Iothene
• Viking-Style Tablet Weaving: Birka Strapwork Motif
• braid weaving
• bone needles
• How to make a Viking Toy Horse
• An Antler Comb
• Some of Dirk's castings
• Making Glass Beads
• Pottery by Sunnifa

Food

• Viking Age Cooking
• Starting a fire
• Norse food
• Archaeological Finds of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Viking Foodstuffs
• Hearths in the Viking World
• Viking Barley Bagels
• Early Medieval Brewing
• A recreated meal - A Menu for an 11th Century Althing
• Icelandic Chicken
• Swedish Rye Bread

 

Viking Age Living History exhibits

• L' Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland)
• Danelaw Dark Age Village (UK)
• The Ravens Warband Settlement Project (UK)
• The Viking Reserve at Foteviken (Sweden)
• The Viking Houses at Haithabu (Hedeby)
• The Firsby Saxon Village Project (UK)
• Tjodhilde...an Arctic beacon in a Norse world? (Greenland)
• The Viking Farm, Avaldsnes (Norway)
• The Storholmen Villiage (Sweden)
• Ale Viking Age project (Denmark)
• Stavgard (Sweden) - Notice all the nice 'In English" buttons!
• Viking Center Fyrkat (Denmark)
• Wychurst (UK)

 

Merchants

North America

• Olaf's Chainmail - Mail and shoes
• Bare Hare Pottery - handcrafted, wheel-thrown medieval replicas and interpretations of medieval clay vessels
• Urweg - Viking  & Anglo-Saxon Jewelry and Accessories
• Godwyn's Forge - Weapons and armour
• Viking-Shield.com - Rebated swords and spears
• Raymond's Quiet Press - affordable reproduction castings
• Anglo-Saxon Imports - books, audio tapes, facsimile coins and CD-ROMs that focus on Saxons
• Brettuns Village Leather - leather
• Feral Fiber - affordable sheepskins
• Five Rivers Champanry - Cooperage (buckets), embroidery supplies and miscellaneous forge work
• Gaukler Medieval Wares - castings
• Moscow Hide and Fur - you guessed it, HIDES AND FURS, and other animal bits
• Old Fashion Milk Paints - for paints that look a bit more 'period' than modern paints do
• The Wareham Forge (Canada) - Norse reproductions and re-enactor supplies
• Beaver Buckets - Buckets, kegs, barrels, washtubs, churns, yokes and copper tools
• Midwest Tent - tents and accessories
• Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. - weaving/spinning supplies, cooking equipment, kegs, barrels fire starting equipment
• Woodbows.com - affordable bows
• Verena's Knitting Corner - Naalbinded socks
• Blackwood Jewellery

The UK

• Paul Binns - Rebated and sharp weapons
• Armourclass - Swords
• Jelling Dragon - Costume, weapons, armour, games, toys, jewelry, accessories, crafts, books, cd's
• Norðan - high quality castings in silver and bronze
• Ancient Battle Crafts - Weapons, Armour and Tents
• Danegeld - George Easton's silverwork - HIGHLY recommended for your silver bling needs!
• Viking Crafts -Jewelry, weapons, fittings, helms, shields, horns, games, footwear, and leatherwork
• Get Dressed For Battle (GDFB) -archery supplies, armour and armouring supplies
• Early Period Turn Shoes
• Asgard Crafts
• Creative Links
• Grizzly Products - Armour, jewelry, clothes, shoes, pottery and timberwork
• Listings for Viking 800-1150AD Traders & Suppliers 
• ANA Period Shoes
• Viking Resources
  • Viking Coins by Valgard Toebreaker
  • Stonework by Alric
  • Anglo-Baltic Crafts
  • Grettir's Byzantine Bazaar
  • Ali Anwar - Herts Specialist Fabrics
  • Mia's Costume and Embroidery
  • Anglo-Saxon books
  • Bjarni's Knives, Tools And Ironwork
  • Gytha's Tablet Weaving
  • Katla's Socks
  • Sigurd's Re-Enactment Combat Arrows
  • Tamsin's Prayer Beads

Australia

• Birka Traders - castings and shoes
• Turbows - archery supplies

 

Museums

• York Archaeological Trust
• Jorvik Viking Centre
• The Viking Ship Museum in Oslo
• Birka
• Sigtuna Museums
• The Documentation Project
• Slöinge Settlement
• Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger
• Avaldsnes project
• East Iceland Heritage Museum archaeological excavation in Seyðisfjörður
• Reconstruction of Iceland Sod Church
• List of photodocumentation, includs a Viking longhouse reconstruction
• Gall-Ghaidheil: The Western Isles in the Viking World
• Rushen Abbey, Isle of Man
• Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS)
• Fotevikens Museum
• Centre for the Study of Viking Age
• Viking Heritage

 

Misc

• How to start a group from scratch!
• Hooked tags and their use
• A Protocol Guide for Authenticity Testers
• Authenticity - Keeping your sanity
• Academic History & Historical Re-enactment
• Beyond Re-enactment: Rescuing History from Recreation
• Questions about re-enactment
• The Medieval Campaigner’s Manifesto
• Thora's Viking Age Resources for the Re-enactor
• The Viking Answer Lady
• The Varangian ReEnactor Resource page
• Halvgrimr's RUSH presentations
• Halvgrimr's Reference Material page
• Halvgrimr's Image Archives
• The Armour Archive
• Information on various Viking Age Shields
• Anglian York (Eoforwic)
• Viking York (Jorvic)
• The Domesday Book - Online
• Viking Age Scales

 

Pieces of VNA History

• Sethrun's Saga
• Halv's 'stepping down' letter