Nordik Xperience

Ken and Cynthia are going on a cruise! It is called “28-Day Legendary Solar Eclipse With Greenland & Scotland”. Yes, this is amazing. We are truly grateful to be able to do this. Yes, you may be a tiny bit envious. I mean come on, who would not want to go on this cruise? We want to share as much as we can about this experience! Since this page is called Nordik Xperience and is an educational page, we are using it as a learning experience! Cynthia is going to try to tease out the Scandinavian and Viking Age connections to each port we’ll be stopping at. Scandinavian stops should be (hopefully) relatively easy! Norway, Iceland and Greenland, can do. Cynthia hasn't researched Faroe Islands, Scotland and Britain much. Who know if we will find anything at all about Rotterdam in the Netherlands at all, in connection to the Viking Age or Scandinavia! If you know, let US know so we can share that with others! #vikingageinspiration #vikingage #norse #NordikXperience #scandinavian #educa...

We've been busy for a while. First it was the experiments, then Pennsic, then we got on a boat and traveled from Boston to Montreal and back. We are finally home for a while, but Cynthia wants to enter an SCA Arts and Science Competition, so has a deadline to get that together. In addition, since we got married, while at Pennsic, there's all sorts of name changing stuff to do! So Cynthia needs to decides the format of the submission. We've decided to bring the pots, the two querns we have, a "faux" barley bundle from our kit. The pots as well as the imitation barley are obvious, but why two querns?  Amazon purchased quern The Amazon purchased quern, showing how many times grain needs to be ground to become flour. At top left, is the whole grain hulled barley. Then, left to right has been passed through the quern, once to five time to become finer. Just below the fifth, is the sixth, which is a reasonable flour. Also pictured is a bone spoon. I also have a reproduc...