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Apologizing: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/seven-deadly-bardic-sins-part-1/
Unpreparedness: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/seven-deadly-bardic-sins-part-2/
Overreach: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/seven-bardic-deadly-sins-part-3/
Staleness: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/seven-deadly-bardic-sins-part-4/
Inappropriateness: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/seven-deadly-bardic-sins-part-5/
Pride: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/seven-deadly-bardic-sins-part-6/
Timidity: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/seven-bardic-deadly-sins-part-7/
Cariadoc's Miscellany - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html
Miscellany - 10th edition in .PDF http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Misc10/Misc10.pdf
Documenting Original Bardic Pieces: The Quest for the Elusive Point by Adelaide de Beaumont (Lisa Theriot)
http://www.ravenboymusic.com/Articles/documentoriginal.htm
Period Songs: Where to Find Them, How to Write Them by Isolde de Lengadoc
http://welltemperedharpy.blogspot.com/2010/03/period-songs-where-to-find-them-how-to.html
Documentation is Not An Obituary by Master Terafan Greydragon
Developed and presented based on an original class by Master Dafydd ap Gwystl
http://www.greydragon.org/library/docisnotobit.html
You Don’t Hate the Bardic Arts; You Hate Bad Bards
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2015/02/03/you-dont-hate-the-bardic-arts-you-hate-bad-bards/
A Brief Survey of SCA Bardic Music
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2015/02/28/a-brief-survey-of-sca-bardic-music/
Its Not Wrong to Filk Casue it Feels so Right
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2015/05/07/its-not-wrong-to-filk-cause-it-feels-so-right/
Sound of Medieval Music I - Plainchant Modes
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2015/10/28/the-sound-of-medieval-music-part-i-plainchant-modes/
Sound of Medieval Music II - Folk and Field
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2015/12/24/the-sound-of-medieval-music-part-ii-folk-and-field/
Revised Standards for Bardic Authenticity
https://aethelmearcgazette.com/2016/02/04/revised-standards-for-bardic-authenticity/
Liam St. Liam's Thirty Essential SCA songs http://liamstliam.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/thirty-essential-sca-songs/
SCA Stories for Beginners - by Mistress Dervila Ni Leanon: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/ ... / .pdf (Preview)
Becoming A Peer, Zsof's Rules - http://zsof.livejournal.com/531820.html
Becoming A Peer, David - Anvil of Virtue - http://www.anvilofvirtue.org/category/peerage/
The Chivalric Oath of Fealty, with Notes by Ephraim ben Shlomo, KSCA (Midrealm, Cleftlands, Archive) - http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/archive/oath.asp
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Aesop's Fables a New Translation: G. K. CHESTERTON, ILLUSTRATIONS ARTHUR RACKHAM, 1912
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Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources - by Aesop and John Tenniel, 1884
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Arabian Nights, Translation: Richard F. Burton, "A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 (of 17)"
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Arabian Nights, Translation: Richard F. Burton, "A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 (of 17)"
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Four Arthurian Romances - Chrétien de Troyes (Author), William Wistar Comfort (Translator)
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Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale - by Charlton Miner Lewis
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King Arthur and His Knights - By Maude L. Radford, Illustrated by Walter J. Enright, 1903
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Le Mort d'Arthur - Volumes 1 & 2, by Thomas Malory
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Legend of King Arthur and his Knights, by Sir James Knowles, 1862
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The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle
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Story of Sir Launcelot and his Companions, Howard Pyle
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Beowulf, Unknown (Old English)
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The Story of Beowulf, by Unknown (Translated to standard prose)
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The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, Author: Anonymous (Translated to English, poetic format)
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The Canturbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer - Edited by D. Laing Purves
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English Songs and Ballads - Various
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Francis James Child (Child Ballad) Collection
(*not all of these are period works, but some are- and many are the basis of 'traditional' folksongs; there are 8 volumes in total)
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Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and John Dickson Batten
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
(Translation with notes and an introductory essay by James Romanes Sibbald.
Edinburgh University Press: T. and A. Constable, Printers to her Majesty. 1884)
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The Odyssey of Homer
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The Iliad of Homer
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Ovid, Translator: J. J. Howard, 1807
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Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, by Homer and Hesiod (Includes "Works and Days" and "The Theogony")
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Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by R.H. Busk
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Ancient Irish Poetry - by Various (Author), Kuno Meyer (Translator)
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Irish Fairy Book - Alfred Perceval Graves
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
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A Celtic Psaltery Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish & Welsh Poetry
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Gods and Fighting Men The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory
by Lady Gregory (Author), W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (Introduction)
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Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, by Anonymous, Edited by Morris Jastrow, Translated by Albert T. Clay
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Icelandic Short Stories (oldest from the 13th century)
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The Book of Delights (Yosef ben Meir Ibn Zabara) and Other Papers, by Israel Abrahams
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Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages, by Wilhelm Wagner,
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Project Gutenberg's Wonder Tales from Many Lands, by Katharine Pyle
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Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series, F. Sidgwick
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Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
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Folk Tales from the Russian by Kalamatiano De Blumenthal and Verra Xenophontovna
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin
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Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston
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The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales by Houghton and Krauss
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The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales by Steele and Rosciszewski
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Complete Works of Shakespeare
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Collected in three Volumes) - Sir Walter Scott, 1806
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Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns - Author: Robert Burns
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham - Author: Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes - King Henry VIII
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When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth - Charles Major, 1898
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The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History - Author: Martin Hume, 1905
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age - Author: Various, Editor: A. H. Bullen
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The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, by Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
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Viking Tales - Jennie Hall, 1902 *Note: Sagas set in prose format
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The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown
On This Day in Tudor History
The Anne Boleyn Collection - The Real Truth about the Tudors
The Anne Boleyn Collection II: Anne Boleyn and the Boleyn Family
George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier & Diplomat
Tudor Places of Great Britain
Illustrated Kings and Queens of England
Sweating Sickness: In a Nutshell
Icelandic Saga Database - http://www.sagadb.org/, https://www.facebook.com/IcelandicSagaDatabase/
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Set 1 of 6: Saga Six Pack 1 - Beowulf, The Prose Edda, Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue, Eric The Red, The Sea Fight and Sigurd The Volsung (Illustrated)
by Anonymous, Snorri Sturluson, William Morris, Jennie Hall
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Set 2 of 6: Saga Six Pack 2 - Poetic Edda, The Nibelungenlied, Saga of Thorstein, Fridthjof the Bold, Ingolf's Saga and King Harald's Saga (Illustrated)
by Rasmus Bjorn Anderson, Jennie Hall
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Set 3 of 6: Saga Six Pack 3 - The Story of Burnt Njál, Magnus the Good, Song of Atli, The Hell-Ride of Brynhild, Saga of Olaf Kyrre and Lay of Hamdir (Illustrated)
by Anonymous
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012X9GGPI/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_3
Set 4 of 6: Saga Six Pack 4 - In The Days of Giants, Halfdan the Black, True & Untrue, Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers, Little Annie the Goose-girl and King Alfred's Viking (Illustrated)
by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Abbie Farwell Brown, George Webbe Dasent, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Snorri Sturluson, Charles W. Whistler
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143KO6MK/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_4
Set 5 of 6: Saga Six Pack 5 - Erling the Bold, Big Peter and Little Peter, The Saga of Harald Hardrade, The Master Thief, A Sea Queen's Sailing and Bruin and Reynard (Illustrated)
by Peter Christen Asbjornsen, R. M. Ballantyne, George Webbe Dasent, Jorgen Engebretsen, Snorri Sturluson, Charles W. Whistler
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019EL4G50/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_5
Set 6 of 6: Saga Six Pack 6 - A Thane of Wessex, Harald Harfager's Saga, Eric Brighteyes, The Valkyrs, Saga of Hakon Herdebreid and The Elves (Illustrated)
by Hélène Adeline Guerber, Henry Rider Haggard, Laurence Marcellus Larson, Snorri Sturluson, Charles W. Whistler
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BXSIW9I/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_6
Set 7 of 6: Saga Six Pack 7 - Tales of the Enchanted Islands, Saga of King Harald Grafeld, The Death of Baldur, The Magic Mead, The Viking's Code and The Vikings Discover America (Illustrated)
by Emilie Kip Baker, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Florence Holbrook, Jean Lang, Snorri Sturluson
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