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Newsletter Archive
The Realm of Albion, event reports, recipes for food and beverages,
knights and combat, poems and songs, books and films.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Unusual Medieval Deaths - by Michael J Evans
Women in the Medieval Guilds - by Lady Magdelene Saunders
Medieval Scottish History ( parts I, II and III) - by Gwyn ap Hwel
Langage of Scottis Natioun - by Lady Anne Montgomerie
The Plaid - by Sir Alastair Saunders
On the Reckonning of Time - by Margarete von Helfenstein
From a Hungarian Farmer's Almanac 1674 - found by Aliss the Mad
Great Moments in the History of Cooking - by Ragnhild Askillsdottir
Early Medieval Oath of Fealty between a Knight and Squire

RECIPES AND HISTORY OF COOKING
Five Medieval Food Recipes - by Ragnhild Askillsdottir
(lenten stew (veg), apple mousse, spiced lamb stew, greens braised with bacon, prune tart)
Recipes (part 2)
(garlic soup (veg), baked turnips (veg), rabbit stew, chicken in rose sauce, wardonys in syryp)
Recipes (part 3)
(fennel with ginger (veg), honey toasts, pork in cider, beef in beer, brie tart (veg))
Recipes (part 4)
(savory green soup (veg), cherry tart (veg), pulse soup (veg), bread soup (veg), chicken stuffed with grapes and garlic)
Recipes (part 5)
(pottage (veg), braised chicken, venison stew, rastons (veg), nut hedgehogs (veg)), elderflower cheesecake (veg), fig pudding (veg),

"Gunnar's Viking Vengeance" Ale - by Sir Gunnar Tormundsson
Hrolf's Mead - by Sir Hrolf Arnorsson
Great Moments in the History of Cooking - by Ragnhild Askillsdottir


EVENT REPORTS
Caerlaverock 1300 - by Sir Arni Grimsson
First Beowulf Feast - by Eckhild
Byzantine Feast - by Freydis Haraldsdottir
Arabian Feast - by Ingrad of Y'Draig
A Masquerade at Caer Caledon - by Sir Corwyn of Ambrose
The Feast of Fire - by Philip
The Feast of the Monsteres - by Eller of Pennington
Autumnal Feast - by Mark of Norwich
Full Court Report - by Margarete von Helfenstein
Dirleton Castle Show - by Mary Elliot
Crusader Feast - by Ieuan ap Arthur ap Ardur
An Picnick at the Castle of Craigmillar - by Rhys ap Gweran ap Mathonwy
A tour of the Borders - by Mark of Norwich and Matilda de Borg
Crusade to the World's End and Beyond - by Sir Gunnar Tormundsson
An Expedition into the Wilds - by Padraig of Harpelstane
Winter Feast - by Ibn Ayyub al Qurtubi
Spring Feast - by Ibn Ayyub al Qurtubi