Shield designs registered by groups. On this page are all the designs used by existing groups, please do not select one of these for your dsign unless you are a member of that group. We also have a Register of former Group shield designs - these may be available for re-use but please speak to the Battle Captain before doing so. If a shield design is not recorded here, please help us add to the record. If you are making a new design, please consult with the authenticity team.

Current Groups

Amounderness

Red and black, clockwise spiral quarters

Ardenweard

Arnvid Husstand

Black Raven on red

Blaeddau Du

Red on grey, eight dagged spiral stripes

Blaidd Mintai

Caent

Cwmwd Ial

Cwmwd Ial is based in North Wales and has been since 1990.

Welsh

Cwmwd Ial's main shield design is a round shield (any size from small to large) featuring either a Cymric wheeled cross or a Cymric zoomorphic design.

Members are free to choose either type as long as the design utilises our group colours of white, yellow, blue & green on a brown field. Members are also permitted to use red in their design as long as it is used sparingly.

For later period Welsh shows (11th century) and shows where we portray Saxons (i.e. Hastings) we also utilise a tear drop kite shield. These tend to have a more standardised version of our Cymric wheeled cross utilising the group colour scheme.

Cwmwd Ial as a group also portrays Welsh forces of the later 12th Century. For these shows we utilise a Flat-top kite shield which was the technological successor of the tear drop kite from the previous century. The design on these shields is again more standardised but this time features a yellow and red Cymric cross of a cruciform nature on a brown field.

Dahrg de Belne

Danelaw

Viking

Red and yellow, clockwise spiral quarters

Dunholm

Northumbrian

Red St.Cuthbert’s cross with white border on blue field.

Eikthyrnir

Viking/Anglo Saxon

Fafnir’s Bane

Viking

Red Fafnir dragon on a sea of blue with a yellow/gold sword

Galloway Longfhada

Galloway Longfhada are based in Dumfries, South West Scotland.

Hiberno Norse

A Red Kite either as a Green Bird on a white background or a white bird on a green background. The design is updated to be closer to the way birds are depicted on the Galloway crosses and in manuscripts

Gesithas

Saxon

Oxford & Cambridge blue, any design

Glasgow Vikings

Glasgow are based in Glasgow, and have been since 1976

Hiberno Norse

Blue bird (Eagle) on white background with implied saltire (or other blue on white design)

Pictish

Two red boars on a black background (or other black on red design)

Third longship (Heritage - 2012 - 2016)

Hiberno Norse Verdigris green on white (any design)

Gleipnir

Hammer Horde

Based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Herlid

Two white boars on a green background

Hildsvin

red boar on black, three red stripes on top half of shield)

Hrafnsdale

Six black and yellow anticlockwise spirals. Kite shield is a black curved cross on a yellow field.

Hrafnslith

Saxon Black & maroon with superimposed yellow knot. White personal runes.

Hrútar lið

Viking Verticle bands of Black, White and Blue

Hrútar lið Shield

Hwicce

Saxon

Black & jade, any design

Ithavoll

Jormungandr

Viking. Yellow & Blue serpents entwined on a green background

Jorvik

Viking Six red, black & yellow clockwise spirals or any other design.

Manaraefan

Anglo-Dane

Green & yellow' any design

Midgard

Morvleydh

Morvleydh is based in Cornwall and covers the Cornish and the Vikings

Morvleydh`s Kite shield is Blue with white cross and a black border,

Before you earn your Frihal in Morvleydh you are only permitted to use the the solid colours of Teal or Dark Teal on your shield with a blue edge.

Once Your Frihal has been achieved you are allowed to choose your shield design (must be a non-animal design) using the the three colours of off white, Teal, and Dark teal with a blue border.

Niflheim

Nord Idan

Based in the north of Cumbria - the Nord Idan Vikings takes it's name from the Eden Valley, and it's members are free to decide a persona that reflex the multi cultural society of 10th Century 'Cymry'.

Northumbria Vikings

As the name suggests Northumbria cover the entire North-East of England in the original Saxon kingdom of the same name. More accurately Northumbria cover the northern half of that territory, originally called Bernicia.

The Northumbria flag was one of the first to be mentioned in written records and our colours are based upon the description :-

"The flag is a mix of the colour of gold and spent blood". (i.e. blue to purple not arterial red)

Northumbrians were Angles pre the Viking settlement of York (C-866), and slowly became Anglo-Danish afterwards.

Plain blue shield ...................................... Typical Pattern Designs ..................................................................................... Typical Boar Pattern

Members are free to choose any shield design as long as colours are either only blue, or blue and gold/yellow.

Blues can be any shade providing that it is not too dark. Lighter shades are preferred. A mix of light and dark blues is allowed.

Designs can include depictions of the blue boar providing that it is not too ornate.

Later period kite shields should have the same colours and patterns.

Any design other than a single light blue colour, or patterns of the traditional quartered or propeller types requires pre-approval by the group leader and/or the authenticity officer.

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Ordgar

Ordgar members are allowed to create their own version of the St Cuthbert style cross as long as it uses our colours (bright yellow and dark red or burgundy) and as long as it is still clearly recognisable as our design.