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Brendan O Corraidhe, (c) 2014-2015 - Seven Deadly Bardic Sins

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/

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Cariadoc's Miscellany

Cariadoc's Miscellany - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html

Miscellany - 10th edition in .PDF http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Misc10/Misc10.pdf

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Documentation & SCA A&S ~ Various

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 

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Gwendolyn the Graceful, Brehyres, Sylvan Bard Emeritus (AEthelmearc Gazette, 6 Articles 2015-2016)

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/

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Liam St. Liam's Thirty Essential SCA songs

Liam St. Liam's Thirty Essential SCA songs  http://liamstliam.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/thirty-essential-sca-songs/

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SCA Stories for Beginners - Dervila Ni Leanon

SCA Stories for Beginners - by Mistress Dervila Ni Leanon:  https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/ ... / .pdf (Preview)

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SCA Peerage Articles ~ Various

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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Source Material Online ~ Project Gutenberg

Gutenberg Project E-Texts

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables a New Translation:  G. K. CHESTERTON, ILLUSTRATIONS ARTHUR RACKHAM, 1912

Project Gutenberg eBook -http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11339/11339-h/11339-h.htm

Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources - by Aesop and John Tenniel, 1884 

Project Gutenberg eBook -http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18732/18732-h/18732-h.htm

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Arabian Nights

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)"

Project Gutenberg eBook -http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm

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)"

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51775/51775-h/51775-h.htm

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Arthurian

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

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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British, other English 'Collections'

The Canturbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer - Edited by D. Laing Purves

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2383/pg2383.html

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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)

Project Gutenberg eBook:

Volume 1:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37031/37031-h/37031-h.htm

Volume 2:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37738/37738-h/37738-h.htm

Volume 3:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38037/38037-h/38037-h.htm

Volume 4:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38416/38416-h/38416-h.htm

Volume 5:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39627/39627-h/39627-h.htm

Volume 6:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39766/39766-h/39766-h.htm

Volume 7:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41044/41044-h/41044-h.htm

Volume 8:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43825/43825-h/43825-h.htm

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India

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and John Dickson Batten

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7128/7128-h/7128-h.htm

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Italian, Rome, Greek

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700/23700-h/23700-h.htm

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)

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41537/41537-h/41537-h.htm

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")

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm

Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by R.H. Busk

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Irish, Celtic

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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Gilgamesh

Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, by Anonymous, Edited by Morris Jastrow, Translated by Albert T. Clay

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Icelandic

Icelandic Short Stories (oldest from the 13th century)

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Hebrew

The Book of Delights (Yosef ben Meir Ibn Zabara) and Other Papers, by Israel Abrahams

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Miscellaneous Collections

Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages, by Wilhelm Wagner,

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46923/46923-h/46923-h.htm

Project Gutenberg's Wonder Tales from Many Lands, by Katharine Pyle

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48351/48351-h/48351-h.htm

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Robin Hood

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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Russian, Slavic

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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Shakespeare

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Complete Works of Shakespeare

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Scottish

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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Tudor and Elizabethan

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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Viking, Norse

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, by Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

Project Gutenberg eBook - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14726/14726-h/14726-h.htm

Viking Tales - Jennie Hall, 1902 *Note: Sagas set in prose format

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Sources - Other E-Texts and More

Author Clair Ridgeway, Tudor Studies 

Author of:  (Amazon Page Click Here)

Icelandic Saga Database

Icelandic Saga Database - http://www.sagadb.org/, https://www.facebook.com/IcelandicSagaDatabase/

Amazon Kindle - Saga Six Pack, 7 Book Series

Full Set Page:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EL7SH5M/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

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

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XFG1YA6/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_1

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

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EHALUC/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_2

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

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E621DOO/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_7