The Wildlife of Alba
The wildlife of Alba is very similar to what you would expect in a setting with deep roots in pre-Roman, Great Britain and Ireland. Whilst there is a deep spiritual connection to the seven animal spirits with which the Albanni…
Weapons and Crafts
We are in the process of preparing some posts and information based on the feedback you have given us via the social media page and email. In this, the first of these posts we’ll be looking at Weapons, Crafts and…
The Stone – A tale from the Summerlands
“Countless moons! That is how long we have held the stone and now they come again to take it from us!” The band looked up from their preparations, Gwyn had been talking on and on endlessly, but finally he had…
Changing of the Season – Booking open
Rolling fields and gentle hills, kind land with good grazing and rich harvests. These are the lands where the Potter and the Farmer hold sway, where the wild past of the Albanni sometimes seems the furthest from now. The Summerlands…
Event News
Firstly, the Bad News… Unfortunately bookings for The Woodland Call, our Fenlands event in July, and A Northern Welcome, our Northlands event in September, have been insufficient for these events to be viable on their current dates. We’re obviously disappointed,…
Look and Feel: Part 1
We have released the first information on the costume brief for Alba. It covers the basic information on look, colour and texture. As a guide we have also included some photographs taken of some costumes put together using items we…
The Snake and The Fish
There were two, Twins they were, Who had the eye of Adder, And the eye of Pike. Separate ways it drove them, Endless life, And death, Champions of one but never the other. As children their mother kept them apart,…
The Spirit of the Red Cliffs
When my grandmother was young there was a village three days walk from here, so the Keepers say. It was atop the red cliffs, by the sea of ice, by the dark forest where the sun never shines. From the…