[SCA-AS] Huzzah/Vivat?

[rmhowe]

Haraldr Bassi (sca-as) wrote:
> Do you have a reference to this vikings-NA group you speak of?
> 
> Perhaps a URL?
> 
> Haraldr

Hi Haraldr,

I have your book on Norse names.
I am aware of who you are.  ;)
Still teaching?

# Halvgrimr (Vikings-NA) Schuster, Robert L.
halvgrimr at yahoo.com or schusterrl at umsystem.edu
http://www.vikingsna.org/gallery/albums.php
Robb Schuster, also known to many as Halvgrimr, runs it in the USA.
The Canadians have a separate group that is also doing well from what I am told..
Halvgrimr has been a longtime member of Calontir and is fairly well
known amongst the Viking types I know.  He bought the Longship
Company's longship when they had a new one built and moved it to
Missouri.  Right now they are preparing to begin building after the
buildings in Haithabu/Hedeby in one of two possible sites, both belonging
to members there.  I provided him with some building schematics.
A boatshed in the Viking style for the ship is also planned for if I recall.
.
schusterrl at umsystem.edu  2/05
"I am a founding member of The Vikings NA.
http://www.vikingsna.org/
My group is called Norsa. http://www.vikingsna.org/norsa/ "  2/05
"We are hosting [Hosted] a 100% re-enactment style event in late September called
The First Big One! (TFBO).  http://www.vikingsna.org/tfbo/
<http://www.vikingsna.org/tfbo/> ) 2/05 " **** That happened last year.****.
Pennsic began with approximately the same number.
I believe next year the Vikings-NA will host it again in America.

This year it is being held in England.   English Heritage doesn't let them use
the site every year.  The Vikings! in England sponsored the last one drawing
2000 reenactors from many countries.

We have a group in North Carolina but I am thinking that is a bit far from you.
Our leader is far up the Outer Banks.

  I am on the Austlend Vikings NA local list but I am not yet a member.
Someone in my shape wouldn't do too well on a living history demo even though
I have a large number of workable props.  Tools and such.
Blind as a bat without glasses and I had a viral  eye infection following a work
accident that lasted nine months.  The upshot is my eyes are too dry to wear
contacts anymore.  Which fact I don't like but it is that or rot my corneas as
they put it.
Also I do not have normal balance, endurance or mobility.
Not a lot of use of my major muscles to make things anymore.
I am taking physical therapy twice a week presently.
Today I see the Spine and  Pain Clinic doctors at UNC-Chapel Hill Hospital again.
The new medicines they put me on are helping a lot.  I will say that 15 
prescriptions
on a daily basis can eat up a LOT of money even with medicare and disability.
I disabled 12 years ago.  Chronic Myofascial Pain where I had a lot of acupuncture
leaving me with about a hundred trigger points, hardened muscle from 45 years of
fibromyalgia many other places where I didn't have acupuncture, neuropathy in
my legs and some calcification of the brain which leads to other problems.
The Vikings  didn't have handicapped scooters which are necessary for me to get 
about
over longer distances.  I was running a hardwood furniture shop when I joined
the SCA twenty-five years ago.  An hereditary condition massively advanced by
the kinds of work I did.  My mother and grandmother had something similar.
If I had had any inkling of the result I would have found some type of office work.
Hindsight is 20/20.   But most of the time being a craftsman was at least 
satisfying.

Magnus