A History of Skraeling Althing
Part I Canton of
Septentria
or
When we were
very Young
By Viscountess Aelflaeda
FitzAlain, 1996.
Second edition, 2020, with a few
notes by Colyne Stewart.
This work is dedicated with love
to Her excellency Dame Enid Aurelia of the Tin Isles, founding Baroness of
Skraeling Althing, on the occasion of her retirement Nov 4th Anno Societatus
XXX. Without her, history would have been very different.
-
Aelflaeda
"LEPVS HODIE GVNVS
CRAS"
A History of
Skraeling Althing
Part 1 Canton of
Septentria
For many years the vast cold
wastelands of the northeastern comer of the Middle Kingdom were inhabited only
by barbarians. The Society was founded; the Middle Kingdom was formed; and
shires were forming in the lands to the south. All this went unheeded and
unheralded by the northern barbarians, who were known to some as skraelings.
And yet there was one place in the midst
of this wasteland where the spark of civilization was waiting to be kindled. In
a town where three rivers meet, known as Ottawa, the barbarians of the northern
lands met in a permanent council known as a parliament or Althing. Despite this
sometimes unruly body, there were signs of culture, for the town possessed two
universities, several libraries, and a group of people who were waiting for
news of the Society's existence to reach them.
