Hammered Out Bits

Darrell Markewitz is a professional blacksmith who specializes in the Viking Age. He designed the living History program for L'Anse aux Meadows NHSC (Parks Canada) and worked on a number of major international exhibits. A recent passion is experimental iron smelting. 'Hammered Out Bits' focuses primarily on IRON and the VIKING AGE

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Viking Age tools for L'Anse aux Meadows NHSC

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 Readers : Postings have been absent of late as I was involved in preparing, then delivering, an eight day training program for staff living...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

About an AXE

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 Our next door neighbour George, passed away late last summer. The farm block that he had owned (since about the late 70's) had original...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

... a handful of buckshot (10 Lines)

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  There is an old military axiom : ‘You can’t stiffen a bucket of spit with a hand full of buckshot’. It had been a long war, so when techno...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

'Fury of Northmen' - Fakes via the Internet

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 Anyone who has gone beyond the wild imaginings of recent video programs like ' Vikings ' on what passes as the 'History' Ch...
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