[SCA-AS] Huzzah/Vivat?

[Haraldr Bassi (sca-as)]

rmhowe wrote:
> 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.  ;)

Not me. You are thinking of Geirr Bassi Haraldson, author of Old Norse
Names. I found my name in his book when I went through Heralds Point
back at Pennsic I don't recall which (21-23). I was getting back into
things heavily, leaving my old persona behind and decided this time I
was doing Norse stuff. I had decided on Harold the Large verging on
Harold Storten (Swedish for large) and when I found the proper spelling
for the period I wanted was Haraldr that was an easy shift. I was torn
between The Large and The Bear and when I found that Bassi was old Norse
nickname for Large Bear Like Person I was hooked and have used it ever
since. Someday I'll flesh him out a bit further and have a fathers name
to tack on.

> Still teaching?

Haven't missed teaching at a Pennsic in years. But I teach woodworking
stuff... wish I could find Geir Bassi myself as I'd like to thank him
for the book.

Thanks for the info below...

Haraldr

> 
> # 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
> 
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