Argolia
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Persona Biography
Argolia Ragnvaldsdtr is a daughter of Orkney born on the Isle of Sanday in the year 989. Her father, an Orkneyinger, was fostered in the court of King Olaf of Norway. Staying in service to the king and his sons, he fared east across the Keel to Jemtland, and Sweden, thence farther east to Russia where he took a wife before retuning to Orkney.
It was thus that Argolia was raised in both the ways of the Northmen of the Islands and the Rus.
Research Interests
- Early-period textiles
- Early-period textile tools
- Spinning using a drop spindle
- Viking-Age tablet weaving
- Scar Burial in Sanday Orkney
- Novgorod hand carved Daily Use items
- Naalbinding Research
- Whalebone Plaques
Future Research Directions
- Creation of more Early-period textile tools
- Novgorod carved Cake Molds and Gingerbreads
- Early-period dyeing on wool and linen
- Weaving with a Rigid Heddle
- Whalebone Plaques and class smoothers
Service
2008-2010: Hartwood Chatalaine
2009-2010: A&S Mistress (Incipient Barony or Wulfhurst)
October 2012-present: A&S Mistress (Incipient Shire of Fjordland)
2013 -Present: Deputy A&S Minister, Principality of Tir Righ
Awards
Award of Arms · Jan 17, 2009 Raknar and Chiara
Order of the Jambe de Lion Nov 2013, Ieuan II and Gwyneth II