Welcome to Geforđian Strandi
Geforđian Strandi is the North American branch of England’s
Regia Anglorum. Regia Anglorum was a term used by early English
writers to describe the English state. It means 'The Kingdoms of
the English'. 
Today Regia Anglorum is a society comprised of independent local groups, from Scotland to the south coast of England, and now North America, who all work within a tight set of uniform commonsense rules.
Regia Anglorum attempts to recreate a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium. Our actual era of interest is roughly is AD850 to 1150, although our events may sometimes be set a few decades either side of these dates.
It was a time of great flux and change so for public shows a particular date and theme are determined which gives us the opportunity to demonstrate the changing fashions of the times. It was a time when Britain was host to many peoples - Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Danes, Norse, Cymru, Viking raiders and even Norman mercenaries.
We are not purely a combat society and work hard to shed the
old hack and bash image associated with many re-enactment societies. We are not
in fact a 're-enactment' society, but a 'living history society'.
Our basic tenet is Authenticity. To this end we will not portray any image, support any ideal, or include any item in our ensemble which we cannot provenance from contemporary sources. This sometimes requires us to re-evaluate how we look and why we make or wear certain items, and consequently to sometimes alter them or our habits to fine tune the image we depict.
Our members invest large sums of money and thousands of man hours getting it right. From our experiences over the years in the field of re-enactment , we are certain that no other society from our period of interest takes this matter so seriously.
Membership in Geforđian Strandi is membership in Regia Anglorum. Our goals are the same, with perhaps the additional goal, that when a member from North America travels to the UK that they be indistinguishable from the English members of Regia.
Within this site you will find a list of Regia members in the US and Canada, and, we hope, answers to the questions you may have. We encourage you to contact members who may be local to you, or any of the group officers, who will be happy to provide you with any information they can.
