Interests:

material culture of the viking age (dark ages)
open fire / primitive cooking
fiber arts, mostly plain weave & nalbinding
pottery
medieval soap & materia medica
brewing

 

Links to documentation and research:

The Wardrobe Project – a set of Norse Viking Clothing for Their Majesties

To Make Black Sope, or making medieval soft soap from scratch

Women’s Set of Viking Winter Clothes based on Haithabu and Birka textile finds

A Viking Belt based on the Skjoldehamn Find

To Make Black Sope (a manual for making soft soap from scratch)

Of Hony – A collection of Mediaeval brewing recipes

Alumen faecis: An unusual Medieval Ingredient. Includes some thoughts on the production of Tartar & Cream of Tartar

The Klappenrock: A Viking warrior’s Coat From 10th C Haithabu

The recreation of two 14th C earthenware Zoomorphic Aquamanilia

Six Diverse Medieval Soap Recipes based on A Compendium of Sope

The Rise and Fall of Gruit

Viking Apron Panel with tablet woven Oseberg trim, and homespun yarn embroidery

Gruit Ale: version 1

 

  • Current Group: Dominion of Myrkfaelinn
  • Academia Publications https://independent.academia.edu/susanverberg
  • A Booke of Secretes (blog) http://bookeofsecretes.blogspot.com/
  • Medieval Mead and Beer (blog) https://medievalmeadandbeer.wordpress.com/