East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
From the East Kingdom Marshal of Fence: We have received word from Warder Colin MacNish that he is trying out something new for Pennsic Rapier Event submissions this year. Please complete the event submission form: Pennsic 42 Rapier event submission form If you are having any trouble with the link or with your submission, please …
The Boston Globe (article) has reported that the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester MA will be closing at the end of 2013 due to insufficient long-term funding. The Higgins collection of arms and armor (and the museum’s remaining endowment) will be transferred to the Worcester Art Museum, so these treasures will remain in the area …
Their Highnesses, Gregor and Kiena, issued Their first round of Award Order Pollings on Feb. 17, and responses are due back to Them by March 17. If you are a member of a polled Order and are not subscribed to the polling distribution or the discussion list, you may sign up here: Polling Lists And …
This year’s poem for the Estrella War gift scrolls was written by Baroness Aneleda Falconbridge. She said of her inspiration, “It is the call of the warhorn that rings with the playfulness of the hunting horn’s call, bidding royal cousins to journey and meet in the spirit of the nobles of Duc du Bery’s calendar months. …
Every year the Tyger Clerk of the Signet arranges for scrolls that the Crown of the East can use as beautiful largesse to give to the Cousin Kingdoms in attendance at Estrella War. It’s something different from our usual run of scrolls, and tends to feature a different mix of scribes and authors each year, …
A new copy of the Pennsic War Points Schedule has been released. You can click on the image to the left to enlarge it or read the schedule below:
The newest edition of Ars Scientia Orientalis has just been published and can be found here. The following articles are in this edition. – Adventures in Reconstruction by Duke Sir Vissevald Selkirksson – Sestina of the Champions by Mistress Dorigen of the Gray Gate – Curing Olives: Six Methods by Dom. Galefridus Peregrinus – Making …
In the forty-seventh year of the Society, upon 24 February, in the Shire of Hartshorndale, Thyra the Queen did enact and cause to be enacted the following: Item. Her Majesty summoned the children of the East Kingdom and shared with them toys donated by la Chambre des Dames d’Alisay and and many others. Item. Her …
In response to requests, the Gazette now has a Twitter account. You can follow us at EastKingdomGaze. We are also on Facebook, Google+ and a feed was set up over on Live Journal.
The following article was written to explain games, races and martial activities at the upcoming Swabian event in Carolingia by the autocrat, Lady Kunegunde for Carolingia’s newsletter. It is being reprinted here with her permission. Swabians were the often-mocked backwards peasants of the Middle Ages, but the Current Middle Ages has sadly neglected this legacy. …