 Grith Fyrd (the name means 'Peace Army' in Old English) was launched after a series of lectures in 1931.Its founders belonged to the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, an 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.The movement's outlook represented a mixture of socialism, co-operativism and anti-urbanism, and was strongly internationalist.