The Hearth

The Hearth Here I have placed on my collection of links for sites with Medieval and Renaissance games, songs, songbooks, and dance. Stories and poetry will be found here too. Here you will also find that stories retired from the Great Hall.

Story Archives:

Look Out! ~ Being the story of what happens when autocrats use certain words in event copy
Crown ~ This is how I remembered my first Crown.
A Story of a May Drown ~ A story of a May Crown that turned into A "Drown".

Herein you will find stories and poems plus links to the sites containing information on period music, songs, stories, and dances.

A Singer's Guide to Early Music

Bardic Lights Site Songbook

Cariadoc's Miscellany
A wonderful resource. You will be sure to find stories written in persona as well as poems
and songs.

Eric's SCA Dance & Music Page
A must check out! There are some pretty cool links on this guy's page. Especially
check out the two links that have sheet music on them. The sheet music on both
is in .pdf format.

Folk Music: Songs of Crime and Wastrels

Marinus -- Links for the Arts

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
A good one for those who want to know more about period instruments. The site
includes samples of what each instrument sounds like.

Renaissance Music Links

SCA Minstrel Homepage

SCA Songs

Shanties and Sea Songs
Great one for those who want to learn songs for the persona of a sea-going nature.

Songs of the Sea

Sources for Medieval Secular Monophonic Music

Sylverstones Directory of Song Lyrics

The Songbook of House Dancing Fox

Traditional Tunes in Midi Format

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As such they are maintained and updated by her as time allows. Her hand last touched this page on June 27, 2008.