Hello, and welcome to Tyddyn Ystradfflyr, the virtual farmhouse of Alienor Salton and Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin!
We’re a couple of history enthusiasts, chronicling our activities as a household and as participants in the SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism.
In the modern world we live in New York City, home of the SCA’s Crown Province of Østgarðr. But our historical studies center on pre-modern life in the Atlantic regions of northwestern Europe. To give that study greater focus, we’ve picked a single spot in the Conwy valley of northern Wales, and a dozen points in time in which to imagine what life there would be like: what would we see in the world around us, what skills would we need to master, and what types of thoughts and experiences would we have?
Latest Posts
- Museum Visit: Elaborately-Covered Books
- Studying Moments in Time
- A Pair of Plump Lemons
- Museum Visit: Money and Morality
- A Lemon for the Vicereines
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Our Related Websites
- Doing It Wrong: Turn of the millennium arts. Alienor’s crafts blog.
- Techniques of Digital Heraldry. A blog about SCA heraldry and related topics.
- The Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. A collection of over six thousand clip-art line illustrations for use in SCA heraldic and scribal contexts.
- Creative Administration: Musings on the Business Side of the SCA. Commentary on Society governance, bureaucracy, and internal politics.
- Medieval Youth Combat: Marshaling SCA Armored Battles for Children and Teens. Notes on SCA-style boffer fighting for kids aged 6-17.
- Medieval.NYC Promotional Merchandise. T-shirts and other gear to benefit our local branch.