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Lady Agnes Wurtman

Information

Preferred title:	Not specified
Their Pronouns:	Not specified
Resides:	Dreiburgen, formerly Calafia
Status:	Active
Awards:	Visit the Caid Order of Precedence

Heraldry

Per bend sinister argent and vert, two mint leaves issuant from the line of division counterchanged

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Persona

An English wool merchant living in Italy. Met a fellow named Leonardo and tripped in his workshop, fell into a time machine and got kidnapped by Vikings.

He wanted to paint my portrait...but then he had to find another Lisa.

Offices & Positions

Current:

A&S, Canton of Gallavally, Barony of Dreiburgen (agreement to serve submitted, not yet sworn fealty)

Past:

A&S, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia

Event Staff

Deputy hay bales autocrat, Potrero War 2012.

Classes Taught

Wire Weaving: all levels
Metalwork: reproducing a Greek geometric period fibula
Card Weaving: beginner
Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead)
Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.)
Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles, mozzarella cheese, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes
Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch
Sprang: beginning and intermediate
Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English

Projects & Publications

Initiating a webinar format as a supplement to Canton of Gallavally A&S classes. First webinar was held July 18, 2016 on the Skype platform; topic was dill pickles. Content included a class handout with references in .txt format, two recipes in .txt format, two video demonstrations, and interactive coaching. Class attendees included a visitor from Drachenwald.

The next Gallavally A&S webinar will be held August 2016 on the topic of mead mustard.

Memories

How I Found the SCA

Photos

Celtic knotwork as laidwork embroidery using four stranded braid, for an Irish Viking. A creative anachronism.
A reproduction double spiral fibula (Greek, seventh century BC) replica in brass after a bronze original in the Louvre Museum.
A Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.
A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.
A sprang bag during construction.
Sprang bag completed.
Card weaving the ram's horn.
Mead mustards in process. Demonstration of soaking properties for different mustard seeds.
A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends.
A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.