tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317131722012-02-06T21:21:21.832-06:00In an attempt to further my research, I have started this blog to organize my information on Irish history and Ireland into a more comprehensive way. Hopefully I'll maintain this information and it will prompt me to keep it going. My main goal is to develop a better understanding of Medieval Ireland so as to provide myself with a better persona. If you'd like to keep track of this blog, the link to my RSS file is http://scaireland.blogspot.com/atom.xml Happy feeding!Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-10344278383033043572012-02-06T10:00:00.026-06:002012-02-06T10:00:05.183-06:00

I was perusing a few random sites today and I ran across an article that caught my fancy, so I wanted to share it.  The article I found references a late 14th century work (approximately 1370s) by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled 'Anelida and Arcite' (original text & modern translation).  What caught my interest was the title of the article, namely 'Chaucer's Tale of Ireland'.  I have uploaded the file

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-33599309076844068432011-09-26T05:27:00.002-06:002011-09-26T06:00:57.032-06:00

I was recently directed to a group recreating this era and I thought I might share it to help out anyone else researching this somewhat hard to research era.  Thank you, Alessandra! Gael Agus Gall

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-52605596371689119492011-09-03T12:25:00.002-06:002011-09-03T12:25:57.006-06:00

I found a site today that touched on the grooming practices of the Irish from the 5th - 10th centuries and I wanted to post it here so I wouldn't lose it. Hair, Jewelry, etc.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-59557089146022316832007-02-19T06:58:00.000-06:002007-02-19T07:02:57.926-06:00

Interestingly enough, sumptuary, according to Dictionary.com didn't come into usage until the late 1500s to early 1600s. Therefore, if there were sumptuary laws of some type before this timeframe, they weren't called sumptuary. So what would they have been called or was this truely a new concept in the late middle ages? I suppose it's possible that before then they didn't have laws like that, but

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-29772276028493260902007-02-04T08:04:00.000-06:002007-02-04T08:41:57.098-06:00

With the difficulties I had finding 15th century Germanic sumptuary, I determined that 10th century Irish would be more difficult and thus far I've not been proven wrong. In my search tho, I found the following link. It's more general and explains some of the sumptuary practices, but without references, so it's more for an overview than anything. [http://www.geocities.com/davidbofinger/

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-57488548761284478322007-02-02T22:43:00.000-06:002007-02-02T22:45:17.037-06:00

I have determined that my next area of research will be in the possible sumptuary laws that governed the Irish during my timeframe of study. Late period German research on sumptuary hasn't been amazingly productive, but who knows, maybe I'll get lucky with Irish. :D Most of the sumptuary I'm finding at least for the Germanic people seem to come from religious documents, therefore, that will be

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-79851442851320868762007-01-29T15:02:00.001-06:002007-01-29T15:02:54.222-06:00

I've edited the Cycles two posts back, which basically means, I'm trying to do more research again. Only problem I foresee is my current job, but I'll work through that. Might only be able to update every once in a long while, but that's okay. :D

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155145587524857822006-08-09T11:43:00.001-06:002011-09-26T06:01:42.194-06:00

Okay, apparently this is the wrong time of year to purchase Dress in Ireland by Dunleavy. I'm going to assume classes are just starting in the very near future that need this book as part of its course reading. I have no idea, but this is the second site to cancel my order on me. I'm getting a bit perturbed by this and there is no way I'm paying over $40 for this book. I'm sorry, it's not quite

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155145403302709862006-08-09T09:52:00.000-06:002007-01-29T14:49:35.405-06:00

For a more detailed description of the following, I suggest visiting the Wikipeida entry on Irish Mythology. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology#The_sources)One of the best sites to view the Cycles in detail - (http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/index_irish.html)Mythological Cycle - Stories of the former gods and origins of the Irish. Sometimes referred to as the Irish Golden Age.Lore of

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155128641420837482006-08-09T06:54:00.000-06:002006-08-09T07:04:01.510-06:00

The brat was worn by both men and women and the pictorial evidence is quite consistent. All show the brat worn around the shoulders. It was secured with a pennanular brooch [example to the right of a falcon pennanular brooch; below that another example of a brooch, tho as to either of their periodness, I haven't researched yet] on the right shoulder for men and below the chin for women. There are

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155095103783636872006-08-08T20:39:00.000-06:002006-08-08T21:45:03.896-06:00

This was a garment worn by both men and women and was made of linen. For women it reached to the feet and for men to about ankle length. It was either made from bleached white linen or else a single bright colour which was described as 'gel'. It is possible that the white was reserved for ecclesiastical clothing with the bright colours or plain linen being preferred by everyone else. [Since linen

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155075174864152912006-08-08T13:32:00.000-06:002006-08-08T20:38:57.026-06:00

I think I found a good basis for how I'm going to mold my own garb. I found this group, Gael Agus Gall, which is a living history group that concentrates on 10th century life and crafts. More specifically, their focus is Hiberno Viking and Gaelic (tho more Viking due to available resources). Using their site (http://homepage.eircom.net/~gael/gaelweb/kit.html) [this site is also copied or was a

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155058622985159702006-08-08T11:33:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:37:02.986-06:00

The Second Battle of Moyturaftp://ftp.ucc.ie/pub/celt/texts/T300011.txtThis is a section from the Mythological Cycle found more by accident than design. I'll put together a listing of the various cycles after I'm finished with this current mental thread.Clothing references are as follows:"A mantle with bands of golden thread was around him. His shirt had trimmings of golden thread. On his breast

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155058378479043962006-08-08T11:19:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:32:58.493-06:00

The History of Ireland (Books I-II) by Geoffry Keatingftp://ftp.ucc.ie/pub/celt/texts/T100054.txtThis book has a reference to:"It was in the time of Tighearnmhas that clothes were first dyed purple, blue, and green in Ireland. It was also in his time that embroidery, fringes, and filigree were first put on mantles in Ireland. It was he in the same way that introduced into Ireland the custom of

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155057463398679642006-08-08T11:00:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:17:43.406-06:00

Here's my current thought process. As I was going through The Colloquy of the Ancients, I realized that most of the mantles were either crimson or green. This felt significant to me somehow, so I'm attempting to find out if there is any significance to the mantles being refered to as one or the other. From something someone else mentioned, a "green mantle" might not necessarily mean that it's

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155056412786369692006-08-08T10:58:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:00:12.810-06:00

Some Clothing of the Middle Ages - Glossaryhttp://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/glossary.htmlI found this site as I was attempting to find something significant on "green mantle" or "crimson mantle". I hope this site is beneficial to anyone doing clothing research.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155052509794076582006-08-08T08:20:00.000-06:002006-08-08T09:55:09.930-06:00

Unfortunately, there is much debate as to the true origin of the Fenian Cycle. It's generally believed that it was written sometime around 1200AD, but the only surviving copy was included in the 16th cent manuscript, Book of Dean Lismore. Regardless, there are a few descriptions of individuals within The Colloquy of the Ancients (translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady [http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1155041549488587502006-08-08T06:12:00.000-06:002006-08-10T06:18:52.970-06:00

These were taken from the Book of Leinster, 1150 AD., Dunn's translation, pages 316 to 377 (which was taken from Old Irish and Highland Dress by McClintock Appendix, pages 173 to 177). What I would like to do eventually is find various translations and see what the concensus is in that regard, but for now, here's Dunn's translation. In these, we already have some questions and possible

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154997873038941852006-08-07T17:16:00.000-06:002006-08-08T22:17:34.030-06:00

I'm attempting to study this book in a little more detail and I'm finding that there are a couple of hindrances toward this endeavor. First, this book was originally published in 1943, which in and of itself makes it old enough that some of the terminology *might* be defined differently. Second, the sources that tend to be cites in the text are generally, of course, older than the published text.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154972167669020402006-08-07T11:25:00.000-06:002006-08-07T11:36:07.890-06:00

What did I do with my refunded money? Bought another book, of course. Textiles and Clothing c.1150-1450 (Medieval finds from excavations in London) by Crowfoot, Pritchard & Staniland. I figured I might want to try the cheaper of the two books and see if they are worth the time and effort. I'll let you know in about 2 weeks if it is.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154967027958082562006-08-07T10:07:00.000-06:002006-08-07T10:10:28.030-06:00

I had to reorder Dress in Ireland by Dunleavy... I'm rather annoyed. The place I ordered it from ran out of stock, so now I'm having to get it at twice the cost from a local company. Rather than rant here, I'll rant elsewhere, but I hope I'll still get the book next week.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154916533859796362006-08-06T19:53:00.000-06:002006-08-06T20:08:53.870-06:00

Oh, and I don't want to lose this reference (maybe another book I'll get at some point)...Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) (Hardcover) by Geoff Egan, Frances Pritchard at Amazon. Lists at $42. Sounds like it should be a reasonable book for the kind of research I'm attempting to do. It is based in London, but it appears as if the Irish raided the

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154915595225734052006-08-06T19:48:00.000-06:002006-08-06T19:53:15.233-06:00

Found another link while I was, go figure, looking for something else. In their own words... LibraryIreland.com is a free information resource on Irish antiquities, biography, genealogy, history (general, local and social), literature, and much more besides. You can search the library, browse the extensive subject index, or subscribe to our mailing list for free bulletins of what's

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154914349590756712006-08-06T19:18:00.000-06:002006-08-06T19:32:29.603-06:00

I have Dress in Ireland by Dunleavy on order! It's supposed to ship on the 9th of August. Yup, this is one of the books I've seen cited more than once concerning, what else, the dress in Ireland. Slowly I'm building up my library on medieval Ireland.My next purchase is now up for debate. Do I want to go with Early Irish Farming by Kelly, which from the blurbs I'm finding is all about every

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154819549022934772006-08-05T16:46:00.000-06:002006-08-05T17:12:29.140-06:00

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CainAdamnain.htmlThis is a rather interesting treatise. It claims to be the first Irish law to protect women, children, and clergy from violence. In fact, part of the third passage deals with women going to war and being whipped by their husbands to continue fighting. Anyway, the date they claim this treatise deals with is 697.P2 uses the term 'cumalach'.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154817313281884172006-08-05T16:15:00.000-06:002006-08-05T16:35:13.300-06:00

So far, in the various sources I've been finding, I can't actually find a reference for when "Ireland" became Ireland. Granted, "Ireland" is the English translation of Eire, but when did they first call themselves Eire? Okay, that I can find thus far, Ireland has been called the following Erinn, Eire, Eriu (after a goddess), and Hibernia. Hibernia is what Ptolemy, a Greek who lived in the

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154721629629263392006-08-04T13:25:00.000-06:002006-08-04T14:09:54.966-06:00

Silk is an interesting topic when it comes to the SCA. What type of silk was period? And for whom? How much silk was actually used? Would entire garments have been made of silk? Embroidery? Tablet-woven trim?For now, I'm going to post some information that was gleaned from an email group of which I'm a member. In case someone else wants to join, it's the Early-Medieval-Ireland@yahoogroups.com or

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154580867615671502006-08-02T22:16:00.000-06:002006-08-02T22:54:27.743-06:00

The Cathach is currently seen as the oldest surviving book from Ireland. It has been dated to roughly the 6th or 7th centuries and contains the Psalms from 30:10 - 105:13. This book has been associated with Saint Columba (The Psalter of St Columba), but apparently there is doubt as to this claim. This book is currently being housed in the Royal Irish Academy (Acadamh Rioga na hEireann) or RIA

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154459100769737502006-08-01T13:01:00.000-06:002006-08-01T13:05:00.780-06:00

Okay, so it's not strictly Irish or Ireland related, but it's a good brief introduction to the SCA that someone produced and posted to YourTube. It think this is pretty neat and I hope we can do a lot more. For a few weeks now, I'd been considering putting up a podcast on medieval subject matter. Yes, I know next to nothing about podcasting other than what I've been researching, but I think it

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154372556067352062006-07-31T09:32:00.000-06:002006-07-31T13:02:36.116-06:00

I was given a bunch of links by someone else who is doing Irish research, so I'm attempting to go through them. It's likely going to take me a while, but here's the beginning of my foraging. Addendum: many of the following links were not directly given to me, but were links from links. I simply wanted to pull out what I could on Ireland. There are two SCA links at the very bottom of this post

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The Annals of Ulster (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/index.html) are, thankfully, translated into English on the CELT site (Corpus of Electronic Texts http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html). The Annals are simply a timeline from the mid-4th century to about the 1500. The CELT site has quite a lot of translated texts and touts itself as 'The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154015413374103412006-07-27T09:34:00.000-06:002006-07-27T09:50:13.390-06:00

Rather than give up completely, I started thinking. That other link was simply to the Projects Page... do a search instead. Well, guess what, searching medieval ireland at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/basic.cfm created 703 hits. If nothing else, it's a good starting point for finding possible archaeological records of artifacts found at those sites. Man, that's a lot of research...

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154014304575601992006-07-27T08:52:00.000-06:002006-07-27T09:31:45.456-06:00

I decided to take the ArchSearch Projects page apart and determine what was actually relevant to what I'm researching. Most of the United Kingdom entries are actually England, but there where a couple that were Scotland and one that is Wales. Unfortunately, taking the page apart only revealed Scotland and Wales with nothing related to Ireland. I guess that shouldn't be a big surprise, but I

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154005385226884132006-07-27T06:40:00.000-06:002006-07-27T07:03:05.236-06:00

Another quick note, I have a printed page dealing with a link to The Colloquy of the Two Sages (Clannada na Gadelica) from the Book of Leinster. It's translated by Whitley Stokes. I have no idea if it's part of the Book of Leinster of which McClintock drew his references or not, but I don't have time this morning to do the research necessary to find out right now. I'll figure it out later.http

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1154003936114924772006-07-27T05:35:00.000-06:002006-07-31T14:06:32.793-06:00

I figured I might as well put here the links I have printed in a notebook. These are for various things, mostly clothing, but also history and the like.Bog Bursts (http://www.from-ireland.net/history/bogbursts.htm) - I'd never heard of them, but considering the number of individuals found in bogs, after reading these, it didn't seem all that strange. Bogs are fairly prevalent in Ireland and this

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1153960156870585542006-07-26T17:16:00.000-06:002006-07-26T18:36:22.903-06:00

Now this appears to be an interesting subject of which I don't have a very good answer. In Old Irish and Highland Dress there is a reference in the Appendix to a Book of Leinster (Tain Bo Cualgne - accents on the a in Tain, the o in Bo and the u and Cualgne). At first, I didn't think much of the Tain Bo Cualgne, but apparently there must be some significance of which I'm currently ignorant.I ran

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1153943877641626352006-07-26T13:57:00.000-06:002006-07-26T13:57:57.643-06:00

Another pic from Wikipedia, but this time of the Book of Mulling.

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On the Wikipedia site, they showed a single page from the Book of Armagh. There isn't much to the picture and it's in black and white, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. To keep my research fairly completely, I figured I might as well post the pic here so as not to (hopefully) lose it over time.Maybe I can add to this as time progresses.

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1153943513524248792006-07-26T13:28:00.000-06:002006-07-26T14:55:06.510-06:00

The Book of Kells is said to have been written in the 9th century and contains the 4 gospels as well as many illuminations. The Book of Kells is currently available on DVD for 37.95 US plus s&h. (Maybe next month if I really feel itching to get it) I have found some of the images from the Book of Kells and have posted them here. (like this image to the right and at the bottom of this post)

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1153939860721899762006-07-26T12:48:00.000-06:002006-07-26T12:51:00.723-06:00

My main resource for Irish dress is Old Irish and Highland Dress by McClintock, but it appears to be a widely quoted book on the subject. Since there seems to be little known about Irish dress in the medieval period, then we have to go with what we find. Unfortunately, his book was only published in 1943. The only other sources that I'm aware of off the top of my head would be the Book of

Khaentlahnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31713172.post-1153939530408058912006-07-26T12:44:00.000-06:002006-07-26T12:45:30.416-06:00

I've created this blog to keep track of the research that I'm doing on Irish garb, history and heritage. Hopefully I'll be able to remember to write everything down here so I don't lose it later. I know sometimes I do more research than is necessary, because I end up losing things I did at one point. Screwy way to do research, no?

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