Micel Folcland Public Statement
5. Official Policy of the Micel Folcland Authenticity Officer
Right now Micel Folcland is trying to present a coherent picture of a piece of Anglo-Scandinavian England with a general target of 950-1066. Because we are currently a very small group, we need to concentrate on getting everyone in a basic set of kit that is temporally and ethnically consistent. This means that unless specifically told otherwise, the basic kit for us is Anglo-Scandinavian. We have less than a dozen members who show up at our LHE right now. If everyone showed up in significantly different ethnic kits from a broad spectrum of times, we would lack the unified presentation which I believe is essential to doing an effective LHE.
In the fullness of time, when we have a greater number of people showing up at the LHE, we can begin to diversify our ethnic presentation. Also at some time in the future, we may be asked by a sponsor to do a specific era that is outside the current target range. At this time we will begin to expand the temporal range of our kits.....or we may all finally get our basic kits together and then decide to go out of our basic time frame and all target a specific different era to once again present a coherent picture of that era.
Much as it pains me to admit, I (as one person) cannot possibly know everything about all the details of all the cultures extant in the British Isles from the end of Roman rule thru the Crusades. Therefore, in a vain attempt to preserve the tattered shreds of my sanity, we are going to work on one set of kit at a time so your Friendly Neighborhood Authenticity Officer has the time to both eat and sleep. Occasionally.
For those of our members who are itching to do alternate ethnicities/times, the best way for you to achieve that is by A) completing your basic AS kit in a timely and appropriate manner and B) recruiting more members so that we have a larger base to alternate from.
November 2011