The shire of Aros is honoured to yet again host the annual Historic Fencing Camp. Yet again we will have Master Timotheus with us, this time to teach us on the paradox of Defence as understood by George Silver and Master Cernac the Inspired will be instructing us on the teachings of Nicoletto Giganti. Apart from that Master Arenwald is back from the far reaches of Lochac and will be teaching us Marozzo and some general techniques in footwork and voiding. Prince Erik will instruct us in how to win Nordmark Coronet using period technique.
The site has 18 beds available and
there will be crashspace available as well. Site opens at 1700h on
Friday and closes at 1800h on Sunday. Breakfast and lunch will be
served on Saturday and Sunday. There will also be travellers' fare
available on Friday evening and a splendid banquet on Saturday
evening.
If you intend to participate in the cut&thrust
fencing please bring protective equipment, at minimum a set of skate
pads.
The site is the same as last year, Thorgården, Lurbo in Uppsala, Sweden.
By car:
From the South
From
Stockholm drive north on E4 towards Uppsala.
Take exit 186 toward
Uppsala S, drive 1,4 km. Continue straight ahead through a
roundabout. Continue driving straigt ahead on Kungsängsleden.
Drive over a bridge and continue straight ahead at the following
traffic lights. Keep driving straight ahead. Go straight throuh a
very small roundabout. Drive a bit more, there will be fields around
you. Turn right at a sign saying "Lurbovägen". Drive
over a small stream and up a hill. It is the first house on the left.
From the north:
Drive south on the E4 until you see the
sign saying Uppsala S. Continue then as above.
GPS
coordinates for the site are
WGS 84:N 59°
48.115', E 17° 36.242'
WGS 84 - decimal:59.80192, 17.60404
RT90:6632743, 1600970
SWEREF99:6632222, 646090
By train:
Go to Uppsala
Central station and we will arrange pickup.
By air.
Arlanda
Airport is close to the site. The train to Uppsala central station
runs every half hour or get in touch and we will arrange pickup.
The cost of the whole event (including all meals and a bed)
will be 550 SEK
This breaks down as follows;
Site fee 270
SEK
Site fee day visitor (Sat) 150 SEK
Feast 100 SEK
Travellers' fare, Friday 20 SEK
Breakfast 20 SEK/day
Lunch
20SEK/day
Bed 40SEK/night
Reservations should be sent to
ermingard@gmail.com, and
include mundane name, sca name (if any) what you have paid for and a
contact phone number. Please also include any allergies or other
dietary requirements in your reservation.
Payment to be sent to:
PG 475835-5 recipient "Föreningen SKA-Aros" Foreign
guests may pay at the door.
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Friday 17:00 |
Site opens |
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Friday 20:00 |
Traveler's fare |
Equipment display Put your equipment out and we can see what which sword/mask/helmet etc. looks like, what works and in general geek about equipment. |
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Saturday 8:00 to 10:00 |
Breakfast |
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Saturday 10:00 to 12:30 |
George Silver George Silver's “Paradox of Defence” is one of the primary manuals for cut-oriented fencing and a good basis for fighting cut&thrust in the SCA. |
Nicoletto Giganti (Master Cernac) Principles for fencing with single rapier from one of the most influential Italian rapier manuals. As this style emphasises the use of thrusts it is suitable for standard SCA heavy bladed fencing as well as Cut-and-thrust. |
Wax tablets - not only suitable for
Romans. |
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Saturday 12:30 to 13:30 |
Lunch |
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Saturday 13:30 to 16:00 |
Authorisations and freeplay |
Making
16th C clothing on a limited budget. |
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Saturday 16:00 to 18:00 |
Achille Marazzo Marazzo was the first master of cut based fencing to be staudied in Drachenwald and forms a good basis for beginning Cut & Thrust fencing in the SCA |
German Longsword in cut & thrust and
heavy fighting – or how to win Nordmark Coronet in a
period manner. |
Landsknecht costuming (Lady Constance) |
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Saturday 18:00 |
Sauna opens |
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Saturday 19:00 |
Feast |
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Saturday 21:00 |
Revel |
Male doublet fitting workshop |
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Saturday 24:00 |
Sauna closes |
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Sunday 9:00 |
Breakfast |
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Sunday 10:30 to 13:00 |
Voiding and circular footwork |
George Silver |
Male doublet fitting workshop part
II |
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Sunday 13:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Sunday 14:00 to 16:00 |
Freeplay |
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Sunday 16:00 |
Site closes |
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Ingredients will be
listed at the event; if you have an allergy and haven’t informed the cook, you
need to check the list.
Regular Vegetarian/allergy
option
Bread, cheese, fruit
mash
Gourdes in potage Vegetarian
version with chick peas
(zucchini
in meat soup)
Blancmange, Mawmenee, Sandale Caboches in
potage
(three
kinds of chicken) (cabbage in broth)
Rice
Salmon fresh boyled Rapy
(cold
salmon with parsley) (fig and raisin mash with vinegar)
Letelorye
(scrambled
eggs)
Spunoches yfryed
(fried
spinach)
Sambocade
(elderflower
tart)
Potage of raisins
(apple
and raisin mash)
Lange wortys in pesoun
(pea
soup with herbs)
Autocrats
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Lord Nemet Arpad |
Viscountess Ermingard Hawenthorn |
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mka Bernhard Rohrer |
mka Monica Nilsson |
Autocrat phone: +46 73 332 08 79
Head Cook
Dame Celemon Gwynnedd, OL
mka Kristina Hildebrand