About me
I first became involved in reenactment in the winter of 2004, beginning to attend shows the next season. A proud and happy member of Ousekjarr Herred of The Vikings, I am often to be found dying dramatically as a viking on the wrong end of a spear, or trudging up and down hills with a kite-shield and an excessive amount of armour as a Norman infantryman. Since being invited to attend Scotland’s Festival of History at Lanark in August 2007, hosted by Tournée, I have started to equip myself as a humble knight of Lincolnshire from the start of the fourteenth century, Sir William Hawley of Girsby, Burh-on-Bain (“vert, a saltire engrailed or”, if anyone’s interested).
While at university studying Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, I prepared a 12,000 word dissertation on “Wisdom and the Exeter Book”. Grappling with one fifth of the surviving corpus of Old English poetry to produce a coherent thesis about the concept of wisdom in Anglo-Saxon England stirred my interest in period literacy extensively. As I’ve always enjoyed making things and the living history side of reenactment, as well as the combat aspect, it seemed natural to give authentic writing a go…
