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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Drachenwald Kingdom ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.210434.25529@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:04:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.205648.10659@watson.ibm.com> <199212301902.AA02653@meryl.csd.uu.se> <1hvhfmINNh6a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
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- In article <1hvhfmINNh6a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bq434@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael A. Chance) writes:
- >If my memory of the tale of the first Knighting ceremony in AS 2 is
- >correct, wasn't the title "Knight of the Laurel" used? Not to mention
- >that there were Laurels created for the "art/science of administration"
- >(or some such) before the Order of the Pelican was established.
- >
- >Perhaps Hal or Dorothea (or maybe even Flieg) can fill us in on the
- >particulars.
-
- On the first point, I'll have to defer to My Lady Wife or to His
- Grace--I wasn't there--or perhaps to Meisteren Teresia who did
- extensive research on the happenings at that Event.
-
- For the sencond point.... Yes. Originally the Laurel covered All
- Else and a number of folks were awarded the Laurel for Service. At
- least one--Mistress Geraldine of Toad Hall--asked to 'turn in' her
- Laurel for a Pelican when the Board released the bird to the Kingdoms
- on the grounds that her Laurel was for service and the Pelican was more
- appropriate. In her case, her efforts in cooking and teaching cooking
- were deemed to make her deserving of the Laurel anyway--and she wound
- up getting the Pelican in addition.
-
- I should note here that the Pelican suffered in reputation in it's
- early years. It was created by the Board to be a *Board* awarded
- Peerage--and that's how the first few were awarded. Under pressure
- from the kingdoms, first the Pelican was 'released' to the Kingdoms
- (permitting the Royalty to award it) and then the Board got completely
- out of the business of doing *anything* within the Medieval ambiance
- of the Society. For those of you who think wistfully of the Good Old
- Days of AS-Single-Digits, please bear in mind that they were also the
- Bad Old Days with fights as bad or worse than the ones we have now.
-
- --Hal
-
- Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
- Wilson H. Heydt, Jr., Albany, CA 94706, 510/524-8321 (home)
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