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Svana

Location: Svartland, Mercia, England

About Me I'm Svana, been doing Early Medieval re-enactment for some time. In 2006 I helped form a new, small and friendly group called Svartland. We are based around 950 C.E. but aren't glued to it!

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Movies Serenity, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, Still Crazy, Gladiator, Roxanne, Amelie, The 13th Warrior, Galaxy Quest, The Wicker Man

TV Black Books, Firefly, Phoenix Nights, Spaced, Ultraviolet,

Books authors and genres: bill bryson, biographies, british literature, brothers grimm, carol drinkwater, classic literature, classics, colleen mccullough, cynthia harrod-eagles, daphne du maurier, dave and andy hamilton, deric longden, dodie smith, eddas, fiction, folktales, george orwell, gore vidal, gothic literature, historical fiction, history, jekka mcvicar, j. r. r. tolkien, joanne harris, john pilger, kathleen dayus, kevin crossley-holland, lionel shriver, mary sharratt, mary stewart, michael moore, mystery, mythology, myths & legends, natural history, neil gaiman, non-fiction, poetic edda, prose edda, reference books, roddy doyle, ronald hutton, rosemary sutcliff, sagas, shakespeare, terry pratchett,

Likes Ulfar, Svartland, cats, chickens, dogs, good food, good ale and good company,

Interests include: anglo-saxon, anglo-scandinavian, archery, banquets, bees, birdlore, black country, brewing, card weaving, community, community building, cooking, costume research, costuming, crafts, crochet, crocheting, crock pots, danelaw, denmark, diggers, drop spindles, drying, dyers gardens, early medicine, embroidery, english, fabric, fabrics, feasts, folk art, folklore, foraging, frigg, frigga, frigga's handmaidens, frisians, friesland, friesian, frith, frith weaving, frugality, frumenty, fur, garb, germanic, gerrard winstanley, godecookery, , grey peas and bacon, growing things, hamingja, harvesting, havamal, headcoverings, healing, heathenry, heirloom recipes, herbal magick, herbalism, herbology, herbs, heritage, hiberno-norse historical accuracy, historical costume, historical dyes, history, home brewing, hwicce, iceland, ireland, kitchen gardens, land wights, leechcraft, linen, mead, medieval costuming, medieval history, mending, monogamy, mortar and pestle, my husband, natural cycles, natural dyes, norse, plants, poverty, propagation, quaterstaff, recipes, saxon, saxons, scarves, scotland, seasons, secondhand shops, sewing, simple living, skip tablet weaving, traditions, treadle sewing machines, tribalism, tv-free, underground economy, urban homesteading, viking dress, viking textile crafts, weaving, weeds, wessex, wild food, wool, working class, writing, wyrtcraft, yarn

Dislikes abusers, alcoholics, attention seekers, beeratru, bratty children, bread and circuses, cat haters, chav culture, cheats, chick-lit, christians with hammers, combat wombats, consumerism, cricket, double standards, drama llamas, druggies, drunks, fakes, forum-whores, inconsiderate people, , liars, munchausen by internet, neandertru, pagan standard time, plagarisers, playgans, porn, posers, poverty, raunch culture, self-absorbed people, sheeple, slavery, soap operas, soccer, sychophants, the television licencing authority, toadying, two-faced wankers, unreliability, unthinking, walter mitty people, wannabee pagans, weekend heathens, willful ignorance

Hobbies Textile Crafts, rugby union, living history, music, reading, allotmenting, poultry keeping, sedition, snuggling.

Vices Mead, real ale, buying fabric,

Virtues Erm...

Heroes My mother, Frigga, Gerrard Winstanley, Emma Goldman, Penny Rimbaud

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Relationship Status Married

Orientation Straight

Children Not for Me

Body Type Some extra baggage

Height 5'3"

Religion Primal Indigenous

Ethnicity Other

Smoke No

Drink Yes

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 3:45 AM [General]

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This week I have mostly been...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 10:25 AM [General]

Reading: No Nettles Requred, Bearded Tit.

Eating: Eggs, grapefuit (yes folks it's the egg and grapefruit diet! have lost 7lb already and Ulfar has lost 15lb already),

Drinking: herbal tea and water.

Hearing: Fanfare Freddie our resident blackbird singing Happy Birthday, the baby blackbird I rescued from a crow last week demanding food, Black Label Society

Watching: Star Trek (the new one), Monty Hall's Great Hebridean Escape, Ashes to Ashes.

Wearing: Work clothing, viking gear,

Hanging out: The White House, the allotment, the garden, the kitchen, Sedgley

Doing: cooking, compost, sedition, reading, writing, cleaning, weeding, digging, propagating, sewing, dog walking, feeding Knights Templar, voting (not that it made any difference because the imported Tory hag got in because everyone is so fed up with Brown they just want him GONE regardless of who they get to replace him), downloading various occult tomes, de-junking the house.