Comments | folo1: Viking Vo-Ag Display

folo1

Viking Vo-Ag Display

Jan 22, 2010 08:07

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 ( Read more... )

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ajaxtalbot January 26 2010, 19:18:10 UTC

(Grinning from ear to ear)

Ah, the romance of watching grass grow! Some folks will appreciate it, but I bet that most will not.

I think this is a topic where something like the historical farms over in Britain probably have an edge insofar as they can show agriculture in action.

folo1 January 26 2010, 22:57:05 UTC

The manager over at Forest Glen loves this area of research. She's promised to cadge some stalks of grain from farmer friends so that we can actually thresh it. Now, if we could only get a quern stone... :)

ajaxtalbot January 27 2010, 14:56:00 UTC

What stone would Saxon querns be made of?

folo1 January 27 2010, 15:24:56 UTC

I've seen references to limestone, but I assume that there were more (y'know, whatever was available). For a while, we considered making a pair out of cement, painted to look natural, but reaction was mixed, and we were already a little hesitent (a howe-to popped up on the web, which brought it to mind). I personally thought that my the Turn of Millennium, cement was almost unused after Classaical times and wasn't sure when it again became popular.