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- From: mcdaniel@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Tim McDaniel)
- Subject: Re: Re-joining the SCA as a Bandit
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- References: <uplink.724757799@cwis> <1992Dec21.013633.9636@epas.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:27:45 GMT
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- Goodman Axel:
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- Think about what happens at the first event you attend something turns
- up missing -- and it happens sometimes. I believe that "<soandso> the
- Bandit" is likely to be the first suspect. You're likely to have a bad
- time of it.
-
- Someone wrote "The SCA is the only place or subculture where anyone
- would say 'I am a barbarian.'.". The same foes for "bandit". In
- persona, I am in 1156 in England. We've just gone thru 30 years of
- civil war (Stephen versus Matilda) and the lords and people
- desperately want peace. There are robbers -- far too many robbers. I
- would not treat a robber kindly. No one in period would. If you
- confessed to a capital crime in England, you could be hung -- even if
- you could not possibly have committed the crime. I forget the king who
- changed that rule -- Henry II?
-
- By the way: the Oxford English Dictionary has no citations for "bandit"
- in period. Also, the original Italian referred to a member of an
- outlaw band. I suggest you consult a herald about a name.
-
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- Daniel of Lincoln, Burgh of Cynnabar / Tim McDaniel
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