East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Responses to the first poll of Their Majesties Brennan III and Caoilfhionn III need to be sent before midnight TONIGHT – Monday, February 12. The polls close at 11:59 pm, and the polling link will be inactive after that time. Polls are sent to the members of the Orders of High Merit and the Peerages …
Our twenty-third A&S Research Paper comes to us from Baroness Ysabella de Draguignan, of the Barony of Dragonship Haven. She takes a closer look at the historical roots of a very public upcoming holiday – Valentines’ Day! (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
The Roots of Valentines’ Day
The King’s Arts and Sciences Champion is Elena Hylton. The Queen’s Arts and Sciences Champion is Doroga Vornin.
The finalists for Kings and Queens Arts and Sciences Championship are as follows: Caera Fitzpatrick Charis Accipiter Doroga Voronin Elena Hylton Otto Gottlieb Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson Thyra Eiriksdottir
EASTERN RESULTS FROM THE DECEMBER 2017 LoAR The Society College of Arms runs on monthly cycles and letters. Each month, the College processes name and armory submissions from all of the Kingdoms. Final decisions on submissions are made at the monthly meetings of the Pelican Queen of Arms (names) and the Wreath Queen of Arms …
The staff of Market Day at Birka XXX (2019) would like to bring all our potential guests up to date regarding developments at the hotel which hosts the event. An abbreviated version of this information was announced in Royal Court at Birka recently, but we want to provide more details, and also to inform gentles …
To the East Kingdom. I have been advised that there have been incidences of individuals posting links to a site which provides personal identifying information in reaction to the recent events in Caid. Searching for and publishing private or identifying information, or broadcasting links to such information, about individuals on the internet, with malicious intent …
Tournament results are available from the bear-pit style tournaments traditionally held at A Market Day at Birka. 152 heavy list (rattan) fighters entered the lists, fighting a total of 3,222 bouts. The overall top finisher was Lord Arne Ulrichsson with 280 points. The next ranked finisher was Sir Douglas Henry with 243 points. Complete Birka …
Lady Violet Hughes has created a tutorial for creating and updating populace pages on the East Kingdom Wiki Site. The tutorial can be found on Google Docs.
En français Greetings from Lord Conn mac Branain, Chair of the Tir Mara Populace Badge Committee. The process for selecting a populace badge for Tir Mara progresses. We have finished evaluating the submissions received and are now ready to proceed to the next step: consulting the people of Tir Mara. Five designs have been selected …