Eichling is a long veteran of the SCA and has been fighting since 1977.
Eichling was born to a Rus Viking father and a Celtic mother on the small island of Amrum, off the coast of the Dane Mark, in the year 910. She left her home on the island when she was 13 years old. She indentured herself to her father’s friend and business colleague, the Jewish merchant Uncle Samuel for the traditional 4 year period. Her uncle taught her how to read and write and gave her training and contacts for her future profession. As an armed chaperone, Eichling hired to wealthy merchants and minor nobility to keep their womenfolk out of adventuresome escapades (trouble) while traveling. (Usually with their own male guardsmen.) Her motto was, “Custodio Ipsos Custodies” (”I Guard the Guardians”). Eventually, Eichling settled down to help found a trading business specializing in manuscripts and medical supplies. She still keeps up her fighting skills, as even a peaceful Viking trader needs to be prepared.
In real life, I left home at the age of 23 (note the 10 year discrepancy) to join the Air Force and learn a profession (as opposed to an education). There I did an internship in Medical Technology, which I practiced for the next 17 years on graveyard shifts at various hospitals. During the quiet midnight hours of a calm shift, I learned about the SCA, and succumbed immediately to the lure of broadsword fighting. After a decade of work and practice, including a year in Missouri/Calontir, I fell into bad company and began training a computer programmer in the gentle art of the broadsword. He returned the favor by subverting me from my secure profession and convinced me to start a medical software company with him. Eight years later, I find myself to be the proud Vice President of a medical software company (LIS).
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Web Site Contributions:
Author of “Joan of Arc”
Author of “Patronization”
Author of “The Beginning”
Co-Author of “Eichling’s Armor”
Co-Author of “Injuries: When to Come Back to Fighting”
Co-Author of “Killer Instinct”
Co-Author of “Philosophy”
Co-Author of “The Flinch Reflex and Body Language”
Editor of “Confidence”
Editor of “Fledgling Fighter”
Editor of “When to Yield and Why You Cry”
Researched “Catalina de Erauso”
Researched “Grendel’s mother”
Researched “Sigelgaita“
Good day,
I am a beginner to the world of hardsuiting and have been searching for female armor that accomidates the female form without loss of movement and I know it is vain but the loss of my female form as I am proud that I am a female fighter and am not afraid to be identified as a female when on the field. That being said, I appreciate your breast and back plate as they seem to have combined the best aspects into one peice of amor. I was wondering if you would mind if I copy your armor and if you have any advise or tips for making it. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thorasa Vanderzee
Lindsey Van Dyke