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The Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia, Limited (or Markland for short) is a Dark Age history reenactment group with many connections to [[fandom]].  Markland is largely centered in the greater [[Baltiwash]] area and surrounding states.  Sometimes it expands and a bit beyond, at least temporarily.

Markland and the [[SCA]] were founded independently, and at about the same time, but the SCA made better use of [[fandom]] to expand.  Markland feels that it places more emphasis on history and less on fantasy than the SCA (at least the SCA on the [[East Coast]]).  Markland still reenacts the Battle of Hastings and other Dark Age battles of [[Great Britain]].

Markland encompasses a number of subsidiary organizations, of which some of the earliest were:
* The progenitor University of Maryland ([[College Park, MD]]) student organization, the Maryland Medieval Mercenary Militia, formed by [[Bruce Blackistone]] and other members of the University Fencing Club to reenact the Battle of Hastings in 1969.
* The Midgard Medieval Mercenary Militia, formed by graduating students who could no longer be members of the Maryland Medieval Mercenary Militia.  {Now defunct?}
* The Longship Company, a spinoff created to build a Viking ship and sail it on the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waters.  (The Longship Company's ship ''Fyrdraca'' was at [[Constellation]] where [[fans]] had the chance to find out first-hand what it was like to row a Viking ship.  The dragon figurehead of the ''Fyrdraca'' was carved by [[Merle Insinga]].)
* The Marche de la Warr, at the University of Delaware.

Markland gained some members through contacts in the {{link | website=https://www.nar.org | text=National Association of Rocketry (NAR)}}.

Markland also helped fandom to spread, bringing fans from the NAR, universities, and surrounding communities through Markland into fandom.

Most if not all of the members of [[Clam Chowder]] and many of their groupies (the Clamshill Alliance) were, or became members of Markland.

[[Joe Mayhew]] was a prominent member of Markland and often dressed as a monk at Markland events, wearing an engraved tag reading "Balderdash."

Inspired by their experience collating [[APA:NESFA]] for a time, [[Aron Insinga]] proposed '''APA:1066''' for the discussion of early medieval technology and culture, and assisted [[Merle Insinga]] in collating it.  Most of the contributors were Marklanders and a few were academics.  Ten issues were collated from 1990 to 1993.  Two more issues were collated by [[Jan Derry]] in 1995 and 1996.

Marklanders often use a dating system of A. H. (After Hastings), placing their activities in the 10th century (1969-1066=903).

*{{link | website=https://www.markland.org}}
*{{link | website=https://www.markland.org/docs/howitstarted.pdf|text=How it started article}}



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