East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Greetings unto all ye gentles of the knowne world. Please join the Barony of Carillion in a magnificent celebration in honor of the coronation of Gregor IV and Kiena II. Come and rejoice in the reign of Edward II and Thyra I as they pass on the crown to their heirs. The event will take …
Lo there did it come to pass that Wise King Edward and Graceful Queen Þora did find themselves in the northern Marketplace of Birka upon the twenty-sixth day of the Ninth Month of Forty Seventh Year of the Society. There did Their Majesties happen upon their most noble cousins Kroutas and Brenna of far off …
An additional note to this article about Their Majesties’ Birka clothing. The longer quote of Queen Thyra’s dress was translated into modern Danish and then into runes. The translation into Danish was done by Jarla Dagmar and Lady Vibeke Steensdatter. Photo by Cateline la Broderesse
Birka attendees may have noticed the garb being worn by Their Majesties Thyra and Edward, which was made specifically for this event. The outfits were Viking, thematically taken from period sources for design and cut. The words spelled out by the Danish runes from 900 AD came from a different, more modern source.
The East will be hosting royalty from other kingdoms this weekend. Aethelmearc, Trimaris and Acre will all be represented by their Kings and Queens. Their Majesties of the East, Edward and Thyra, had the following to say about the occasion. “We are thrilled to welcome several of our royal cousins to the Market Day at …
The East Kingdom Gazette just received the following missive from Bhakail: My noble friends, Their Royal Majesties of the Laurel Kingdom of the East, Edward and Thyra, publicly decree that they have heard the advice of the populace and have chosen the successors to Baron Darmon and Baroness Sabine. For the future Baron and …
UNOFFICIAL COURT REPORT: TWELFTH NIGHT It should be altogether clear by the present public instrument that, upon the Feast of Twelfth Night, on Saturday 5 January in the forty-seventh year of the Society in the Barony of Iron Bog, where and when the most excellent prince and lord Edward, King of the East, and Thyra, …
The Court of our most excellent sovereigns, Edward and Thyra, by grace King and Queen of the East, begun and held at the Barony Beyond the Mountain, on 8 December A.S. 47, and in the first year of their reign. On which day were called all and sundry the lords of the realm and the …
It is to be noted and retained in memory that when the Edward the King, second of that name, and Thyra his Queen, were for a time in Havre des Glaces, they convened a Court and there did cause the following deeds to be done and recorded for perpetual memory: Item. Their Majesties accepted the …
Upon 17 November in the forty-seventh year of the Society, Thyra, Queen of the East, did voyage to the Sylvan Kingdom of Aethelmearc there to attend a Collegium devoted to the Art of Cookery and, there finding the good lady Lysel von Heidelberg, citizen of the East Kingdom yet laboring mightily for the benefit of …