About Regia Anglorum
For over three decades, Regia Anglorum has been re-creating early mediaeval history for audiences around the world. We have skilled, properly equipped and highly motivated men and women of all ages who celebrate the very best of life a thousand years ago!
Regia Anglorum was a term used by early English writers to describe the English state, what we would call “Britain” today. In vulgate Latin, Regia Anglorum was a term used to mean, roughly, “The Kingdoms of the English-speaking people”, pronounced with a hard “G”, as in gate. It implies no particular boundary, either geographically or spiritually.
In a twenty-first century context Regia Anglorum is a nationwide society with many independent local groups, from Scotland to the English Channel. Our goal is to portray all aspects of life; from warriors, striding the place of slaughter, to workers, whose daily tasks were the backbone of early mediaeval society, we seek to portray all aspects of life in ages past.
Gwerin Y Gŵyr (Welsh: The Folk of Gower) is a local group of Regia Angolrum (Latin: The Kingdoms of the English-speaking people). We mainly cover the Swansea Valley area in terms of membership, but these days our members are spread throughout Wales. We're an Early Medieval re-enactment group who mainly portray Norse/Danish "Viking" peoples and Cymry culture between 850-1250. While many of our members focus mainly on the combat side of our hobby, many of us also enjoy a wide range of historical crafts.
About Gwerin Y Gwyr
Our Landgrant
A Land Grant is real estate granted by government/ruling bodies to individuals/companies to use/build on. We use the term to describe the area in which our groups operate in, where they have there most members and generally recruit from, with new members not within a land-grant being directed to the closest group. Here's a map showing Gwerin's land-grant:
