PE - Getalds

[Stephen Wyley]

Hi Wyllow,

For more information see;

924 A.D. (Book of Maccabees, from St.Gall)
10th century (Canterbury Psalter) 
10th -11th century (Psychomachia of Prudentius)

http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/10thcentury/10thcindex.html

I will chase up the web site where the patterns are and get back to you.

---
Bye for now,

Sven
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On 17 Oct 00 12:56:06 CDT   Wendy Freeman/Otte wrote:
>Sven, you caught me - I have no reference.  The gentle (I think it was Toli, I
>know it was someone from MagMor, Calontir) who built the large oval tent had a
>reputation as an excellent researcher, and I took him at his word.  My web
>search, triggered by your challenge (and rightly so) has produced no obvious
>results.  So, can anyone help me find the reference I am sure exists?
>
>Here is what I remember from my conversation with him, 4 years ago - it is an
>Anglo, Saxon, or both tent from ?before 1000AD?.  It uses no ropes, depending
>on the cloth of the tent to hold it up - the roof & sides are one cloth.  Its
>shape is more like a huge pup tent, with bells closing either end, and a slit
>cut into the middle of one side for the door.  It resembles the *roof* of the
>french two-bell, reaching to the ground, although the pitch of the roof is a
>lot steeper.
>
>Mira, did you have a reference/picture for the Bell wedge?  The timeperiod
>doesn't match, but the description does.
>
>--Wyllow MacMuireadhaigh
>
>"Mira (Tanya Guptill)" <tguptill at teleport.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Wyley wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Wendy,
>> >
>> > I am yet to come across such a tent as you describe.
>> >
>> > Can you quote your reference for this Angles large oval wedge?
>> 
>> It looks to me like it is the earlier form of a bell wedge, with the slit
>door, ala
>> Tudor period.  If I'm correct, you see a lot more of these in period than
>the
>> so-called French Bells (more common American Civil War, door is different,
>althoug
>> there is evidence of the awning/door in Coburg in the mid 1600s).
>> 
>> Mira
>> 
>> Mira
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Bye for now,
>> >
>> > Sven
>> > (Stephen Francis Wyley)
>> > Fortifications (Dictionary of Military Architecture, etc).
>> > http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/index.html
>> > Archery, Arms, Armour, Chests, Tents, Trebuchets,
>> > Vikings, Woodwork.
>> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/index.html
>> > Arrow Fletching, Turbow Longbows & Yoretymes Emporium of History
>> > http://svenskildbiter.webjump.com/index2.html
>> >
>> > On 2 Oct 00 08:56:11 CDT   Wendy Freeman/Otte wrote:
>> > >The Angles had a one-person-to-raise tent - it was a large oval wedge
>with a
>> > >slit door in the center of the long side.  You peg all of the sides down
>> > >first, then take the two poles into the tent, and raise the roof, one
>pole at
>> > >a time.  No ropes - all based on tension.  Very few seams, so good for a
>rainy
>> > >climate.
>> > >
>> > >One problem - I think its timeperiod of use was 700-900AD, maybe
>earlier.
>> > >
>> > >--Lady Wyllow of the Loch
>> >
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