English Seax ‘Giefu’

This is a short slideshow of the sheath-making process I demonstrated at the ‘Oakland Axe ‘n Seax in‘ in Oakland California. The sheath design is based on one found at York in northern England. The knife is an Anglo Saxon broken-back seax constructed from six bars, the decorative spine is ā€¦

Continue reading

Arctic Fire 2013

    The sun flares red across the landing strip, casting its long fingers down above mountains as I board my midnight flight leaving Anchorage, Alaska. On the 25th of May I arrived in the same airport in late afternoon. I had slept through much of the flight and woke ā€¦

Continue reading

Dwine – Broadseax

Dwine – intransigent verb \ĖˆdwÄ«n\ : to waste or pine away: languish – Merriam-Webster Dictionary   Between the words in old sagas, between the rhyme and meter, I sense a presenceā€”the words not said, the gods not named. I imagine these characters, the unspoken ones. One of them is called ā€¦

Continue reading