The Pennsic Wars HUGE event hosted by the Society for Creative Anachronism during the month of August. Best described as a two-week Renaissance fair without the tourists.
Dagorhir Dagorhir Improvisational Wargames, another group dedicated to re-enacting medieval combat and lifestyle. Not nearly as stuffy as the SCA.
Kingdom of Pentwyvern The Cleveland, Ohio and vicinity chapter of Dagorhir. Events include battles, combat practices, feasts, weapons and costume making, and much more. Almost as much politicking as the SCA, but with a slightly smaller chance of concussion and broken limbs- unless you're fighting the Aratari.
Dalhraidia A dark-age Celtic group, and one of our bog neighbors at Pennsic. Don't worry about the human skulls around their camp- we don't THINK that they're real...
Clan Teaghlach "Clan Teaghlach is a mercenary fighting group based in the Yougstown, Ohio area..." Blah Blah Blah. Fact of the matter is that they're good folks, good neighbors, and they have a damn nice looking gate. Like most of the Bog-types, they're a tight knit group whom we don't hang out with nearly enough. Perhaps the Tequila tasting night should become an E27 tradition? Meet your neighbors... and get stinkin' drunk with them... :-)
Boke of Gode Cookery On-line recipe book of period medieval dishes and instructions for preparing and presenting a medieval feast. Fairly extensive and SCA-oriented, but still worth checking out :-)
Fat Chance Belly Dance San Francisco, CA based belly dancing troupe. Site contains an online catalog of video and audio instructional tapes available for sale. Also has a pretty extensive page of links to other belly dancing sites.
Milieux Internet Services Fantastic costuming resource for all your medieval and science fiction needs. Site contains links to hundreds of sites for costuming ideas, accessories and costuming retail sites. Definitely worth a look!
Kingdomality What is your medieval vocational personality? This is a fun little online personality test with a medieval twist. What medieval career would you be best suited for? Takes about ten minutes, and it's free!
Cantaria Cantaria is a learning library of bardic songs. This library currently contains lyrics for over 80 songs, most with accompanying sound clips of the songs being performed. Okay, that's the site's own plug. Actually, it does contain a large and well-organized database of "period" as well as bawdy/party/drinking songs. Little stuffy, but definitely worth a look.
Heraldry Clipart Free heraldic clipart! Over 3,000 pieces of public domain clips suitable for your website or your device submission. I wonder if you can cite the website as an historical source?
Knotwork Construction Tutorial Sort of a "Celtic Knotwork for Dummies". Detailed yet easy-to-understand instructions on creating your own knotwork. Sample designs and pattern grids are available for viewing and download.
Virtual Ireland Decent site for information and links about Ireland and Celtic culture. Learn to speak Gaelic!
Celtic.Com An "on-line Celtic community" (Requires registration, but it's not too obnoxious). The really cool feature is that you can get free email with your choice of Irish/Celtic domains! Example: yourname@failte.com, yourname@eire.com etc. Sorry, the "@wulfden.net" domain is not one of the options. :-)
Aon Celtic Art Nice site with some free Celtic web art for your personal pages. Also has a great book review section and on-line tutorials in some aspects of basic Celtic design.
The Celtic Art Page An absolutely fantastic resource for all types of information on Celtic peoples' art, literature, culture, dance and music. Enormous site, extremely well done. You can get lost in there...
Gaelic Curse Engine Ever wondered how to curse in Gaelic? Well, this is the place to learn!
Irish Abroad Great "strictly Irish" site. Has a lot of recipes, book reviews, links to other Irish sites and more. This is a terrific place to start if you're looking for Irish information on the web.
Ceolas The Ceolas celtic music archive. They claim to house "the largest online collection of information on celtic music", and I have no reson to doubt it. Their database is, in a word, huge. From tunebooks to MIDI's to tourdates, it's a fantastic reference for anyone interested in celtic music. They even have some sample clips from different artists, but they're all in RealAudio format. I try not to hold that against them...
Celtic or Knot Celtic and fantasy desktop and web graphics, free for the taking for non-commercial purposes. This is really a great site; the work is beautifully done and they even offer full website graphic templates, free for the downloading.
The Luminarium This is the Irish section of Luminarium.org, which itself is a pretty amazing resource for the historically/mythologically minded. The Irish links section is truly impressive; historical figures, authors, language, mythology... and the list goes on. Good site to lose an evening browsing...
The Celtic Center A nice links site for celtic/irish shopping. Most of the links are for retail sites, but there are also a number of resources for music and fesitval dates/locations. Site seems well maintained, and provides an option to sign up and get your own celtic-themed site listed.
World of Celtic Art Another site offering free celtic graphics for personal non-commercial use. One of the highlights of this site is the excellent section on celtic tattooing- good pictures, decent historical background, and numerous links. The site also allows visitors to send celtic art electronic greeting cards, free of charge.
NIST Web Clock What time is it? This site can give you the current time based on the atomic clock located in Boulder, CO. A Java-enabled web browser is recommended for best results.
UBS Casual Homepage Sure to be offensive to Trekkers with no sense of humor. The ongoing mission of the Uncontrolled BarShip Casual is to seek out nude life and embarrassing situations, to boldly sin sins no one has sinned before... you get the idea.
Arachnoid Homepage Homepage of Arachnophila, a free HTML editor. Site contains a lot of interesting stuff- check out "Why is the Sky Dark at Night?". The software is "careware", a pretty cool concept in and of itself.
Encyclopedia Mythica This you HAVE to check out! Ever wonder about that passing reference to Cuchulainn? Somebody once mention the Fish Knight? If it's mythological, they've got it here. Fantastic resource for information on all types of mythological creatures, places and people. Definitely worth a look.
Shanties and Sea Songs Having a hard time remembering the words to Where the Coho Flash Silver or The Mingalay Boat Song ? No, I didn't think so. But if you were, you could head over to this site and find probably the largest collection of sea songs and shanties available on the Internet. Y'know, If you're into that sort of thing. *ahem*.
Tripping The Rift Okay, this has absolutely nothing to do with the whole medieval genre, but it is damn funny! Imagine a sorta NC17-rated Star Wars animated parody starring the voices of Stephen Root (Talk Radio) and Terry Farrell (Deep Space 9 and Becker). It's a BIG download for us dial-up types (35 megs!) but it is sooooooooo worth it. BTW, I will not be held responsible for the moral corruption of your children, spouse or pets...
Trainspotting The complete original script for the movie Trainspotting. You know, that uplifting film starring Ewan McGregor about the joys of heroin addiction and being Scottish... yeah, that one.