East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
This is one of a series of Q&A articles with East Kingdom Officers. The Gazette thanks Don Frasier MacLeod, the Kingdom Marshal of Fence, for answering our questions. Please describe your job responsibilities. The office of Kingdom Rapier Marshal is, as the name implies, responsible for Rapier activities in the East. In its simplest terms, …
Unto the Kingdom of the East do I, Don Frasier MacLeod send greetings, I am writing today to announce the filling of my Experimental Deputy position. I received several outstanding resumes from many highly qualified candidates, and I am pleased to announce that Baroness Alesone Gray of Cranleigh will be taking over the duties of …
Are you interested in discussing a route to Peerage for all practitioners of martial arts in the SCA? A Society-wide Facebook group has been created to gather support and work towards a peerage that would be inclusive of all martial activities. The Facebook group was started a day ago and already has over 330 members. …
On Monday, February 2nd, at 11:20 pm Eastern Time, the Board of Directors of the SCA, Inc. published the following announcement via the Announcements mailing list: Due to the large amount of information surrounding the additional peerage for rapier and cut and thrust, the Board of Directors decided to participate in a conference call on …
The following tournament results are available from the oxhide bear-pit style tournaments traditionally held at A Market Day at Birka.
The Gazette asked the Ombudsman for the East to provide a statement as to what the Board is considering it will do moving forward with regards to the Rapier peerage. David Keen kindly and promptly sent us the following reply. The BoD has been at work towards a solution to the current crisis, including wording some …
From the Kingdom Rapier Marshal: Greetings all, As many of you are well aware, the East Kingdom Rapier Website is experiencing difficulties right now. The link to the current rules is down. I want to let everyone know that we are working on it as we speak. I have been in touch with Lord Lorenz, …
Unto the Kingdom of the East do I, Don Frasier MacLeod send greetings, First and foremost, Happy New Year! Second, I have been asking for resumes to put together a committee to formulate a set of rules for 2 Handed Swords in Rapier, and I am pleased to announce that I have selected that committee. …
Unto the Kingdom of the East do I, Don Frasier MacLeod send greetings, To start off the new year I am calling for resumes for my Experimental Deputy. This deputy would be responsible for coordinating all the wacky ideas people talk about and seeing if any of them can actually be put into use …
The Barony of Settmour Swamp’s annual celebration of the Thawing of the Mud will be held on the last weekend of March at Waterloo Village, our new location in Stanhope, NJ. As usual, Mudthaw will include tournaments of armored combat, fencing, and youth fighting. The arts and sciences will also be celebrated through competitions and …