[Regia-NA] Re: Geteld

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I would suggest that you go to Stephen's floregilum (formerly Rialto) and type in for tents and pavilions.  You could also access the SCA main site, go to Tournament's Illumenated, and check the archives.  The pattern for the geteld on the site that you listed is very similar to a tent that Roland Martel wrote about back in the late 1980s.  He had found an illustration of such a tent in a French manuscript from the 10th or 11th century with the difference that the ends of the ridgepole had been carved to resemble dragon heads.  He cited in his article that the manuscript was biblical and the figures would have been of contemporary Western Franks or Frenchmen as Norsemen's tents were depicted differently during that period.  I will endeavor to find the article and get it to you.

Brother Pagan mac Padruig mac Dugan
Patrick D. Owen