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3 unusual facts about Grith Fyrd


Grith Fyrd

He also admired the leisure activities of the men - Morris dancing, wood-carving, folk-singing and adult education.

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Its founders belonged to the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, a shadowy English group influenced by the thinking of Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians (later renamed the Woodcraft League of America), whose most lasting creation was the Woodcraft Folk.

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It had effectively died out as a living experiment by the late 1930s, though a handful of veterans gathered in the late 1940s to plan the Braziers Park community - essentially a residential adult college which functioned on communitarian lines, and was the childhood home of the singer Marianne Faithfull.


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