Eva's journal

Photos of me, my family, the camp, Visby etc can now be seen in this gallery.

At half past ten, twelve hours after we left my friends Anders' and Karin's place we arrived at home. I am now very tired and also seem to have missed an awful lot on LJ. If it's something you really want me to know - comment to this post.
G'night!

This day has been spent putting clean laundry in the right places, washing six machines of dirty laundry and packing for Visby medieval week (and cooking and taking care of Maja). My feet hates me, but tomorrow everything will be packed and on my friend Marika's trailer and then I can start cutting out diverse headgear I plan to work on on the train to the ferry and on the ferry. Possibly a jacket for Maja too.

Sinc eI finally got my Visby packing back yesterday (yes, my gowns are severely crumbled after three weeks crammed in a chest) I ca now finally fondle and show you the things I bought in Visby. As usual I didn't do much shopping - that's what happens when you've been active for such a long time that you have most that you need, including fabric. But I did buy some lovely tablet woven trim to edge a peplos dress with. I do know that it was integral to the weave, but I'm not going to start weaving on standing looms anytime soon, nor weave a ribbon at the edge of my herringbone twill, so I will fake it. The other thing is a spool for sewing thread made from wood and with a hollow inside so that it acts as a needle case too. The plug is made from elk horn and it is made by the sweet liadethornegge's very skilled father. It was way too cheap too.

haugtussa sitting in my new pavillion, working on another of her gorgeous embroideries:



amonik in the chapter house, just before my lecture on same sex sexuality in the middle ages:



camele0pard, Felix and sir Padraig entering the list at the Visby tournament:



liadethornegge and edricus entering the list:



Our nice neighbours viscount Bengt and Hedvig bowing to the princess of Nordmark and their excellences, the baron and baroness of Styringheim.



Me at the tournament:

It feels very weird that in six hours time I'll be in Visby.

The wonderful Etla from the barony of Styringheim, who organizes the camp, offered me a sleeping bag, a mattress and a place in the crash tent. Now that is solved :) Though I would still prefer a sofa, spoiled as I am ;)

A week ago two of the ferries that go between Stockholm (Nynäshamn, but almost Stockholm) and Visby crashed into each other and one of them isn't functioning. To solve this problem they cancel ferries from Oskarshamn, which is where we travel from, because people from Stockholm are more important than people from the rest of the country and so the ferry which my tent, bed, chest with clothes and other stuff that I need was cancelled. First the people who are towing the trailer actually thought about not going (thanks a lot for that: that would have meant no medieval week for me + cancellation of my lectures, which might have meant that I wouldn't have been asked to lecture anymore, for being such a flake), but after some talking we decided that they should go on Monday and arrive at 6 pm then.
The only problem with that is that I'm arriving already on Sunday evening, so now I need somewhere to stay that night. I also have to bring extra medieval clothes and lecture notes, but that's doable. But I need somewhere to sleep, and someone to pick me up at the airport - and if I'm staying far away from the camp I have to be there at 9 am on Monday morning, because I'm doing guard duty then.
I think it will be solved, but I'd feel much better if I knew.

On Monday I bought a new lantern for my pavillion. Not only is it more correct than my brass and glass ones, but it of course doesnt' break as easily and takes up less space, which is important since there is more limited packing space this year. I will continue ot use the old ones when we bring the large pavillion, I don't care that much that they're not period, because to me they give the right atmosphere anyway and we need more lanterns in the larger pavillion. They also give more light of course, because of the glass panels.
But this one looks like a proper medieval brass lantern.




It was 250 SEK, which would be around 28 dollars or so.

It had all the required pieces and was easy to put up - yay!