Societas Silvestris is a heraldic mendicant order within the Society for Creative Anachronism. This web site is mainly intended to distribute common resources; for discussions, please see the Societas Silvestris Facebook group.
This small booklet includes texts that may be useful for a member, such as the Rule of the Society and the vows of both novices and full members, and a ceremony and oaths for creating a herald. Many of the texts are available both in English and Finnish.
The Vademecum is also available as Octavo-format print sheets
Slides – in Finnish – for a class held at the Aarnimetsä weekly heralds' meeting, on various heraldic offices both in Drachenwald and at the Society level.
Slides – in English – for a class held at the a.S. LV KWHSS Bonus Plague Edition, on how to look for name documentation in the online national archives of various Nordic countries.
Slides – in Finnish – for a class held at the Aarnimetsä weekly heralds' meeting, on Finnish personal name systems.
Slides – in English – for a class held at the a.S. LVI virtual KWHSS on pre-Christian Finnic personal names.
The class listed above polished into an article.
Handout – in Finnish – for a session at Discendo tota aetas II discussing SCA scrolls from an administrative law angle.
An English version of the same, for a workshop on scroll texts at Cudgel War XX.
Slides – in Finnish – from a lecture at Cudgel War XXI on the early history of Aarnimetsä, before its elevation into a Barony
Handout – in Finnish – for a session at Kekri 2024 looking at one 1435 Letter of Nobility and how it can be adapted for SCA use.
An expanded version, for the Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium in June 2025
