A club, not a cast

Knights of Myth started with six people, a stack of plywood, and a standing Thursday booking at a public park. We are teachers, nurses, welders, students, and retirees. What we share is an interest in how people actually lived, fought, cooked, and argued in the North Atlantic between the late eighth and mid eleventh centuries.

How it runs

There is no audition and no membership exam. New members spend their first months borrowing loaner kit and learning footwork before anyone hands them anything sharp.

Combat is run by trained marshals. Every bout is fought in full kit with blunted steel and inspected before it starts. The safety rules are not up for negotiation and we will happily bore you with them.

Making our own kit

Everything you see us wear or carry, we made. That is the point. Reading about a seam is one thing; sewing it wrong twice and getting it right the third time teaches you why the original looked the way it did.

Tools are shared and members teach each other. The monthly craft night is open to anyone curious enough to sit down at the table.

What we are careful about

We are a living history group, not a fantasy one. We work from archaeology and written sources where they exist, and we say so plainly when we are guessing. Visitors get honest answers about what is known, what is reconstruction, and what the sagas exaggerated.

We would rather be wrong out loud and corrected than right in private.

What it costs

Loaner kit is free at every open practice — shields, blunts, and gambesons in every size we own. Bring closed-toe shoes and nothing else.

Coming to a first practice

Turn up. Wear something you can move in, bring water, and stand at the edge until you feel like stepping in. Nobody will put a weapon in your hands on day one, and nobody will mind if you spend the whole evening watching.