East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Their Highnesses Brennan and Caoilfhionn announced that they accepted a bid for their upcoming Coronation. It will be held in the Barony of Concordia of the Snows on October 3 at the same site where St. Kenric of Blessed Memory was laid to rest.
Let all who dwell in The Known Worlde who would do honour to the memory of Countess Adrienne of Toledo, First Queen of the East, be advised that there will be at 6 PM on this coming Sunday the 16th of August a Service for that purpose at Greyhaven, 90 El Camino Real in Berkeley, California. …
Our thanks to Thane Alexander Makcristyne, the East Kingdom’s Volunteer War Point Representative, for providing the following information at The Gazette’s request.
The Volunteer War Point, or VWP, happened this year and many people put in a combined total of over five thousand hours in various areas of Pennsic. Some of the highest registered hours came from Pennsic University and Herald’s point. The total hours per warring faction broke down as follows:
East/Mid/Acre – 3,181 hours
AEthelmearc /Allies – 2,308. (more…)
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During closing ceremonies, the war was declared a tie by Their Majesties of the East, Middle and AEthelmearc. The following are a detailed list of how the war points were divided. (more…)
Home from Pennsic and feeling like you want to help promote the SCA to even more people? Or just haven’t had quite enough camping, fencing, fighting, and fun?
Friday, August 21 through Sunday, August 23 the Incipient Riding of Ravensbridge will be hosting a weekend-long demo and medieval encampment at the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Auburn, Maine. This festival draws over 100,000 people annually to view the hot air balloons and learn about and support a variety of local nonprofit organizations — this year, including the SCA! (more…)
The following message is from the Duchess Katherine Stanhope, who is the Polling Clerk for the East Kingdom.
Greetings all,
Many, many new awards have been bestowed recently, so there are many people to be added to polling and discussion lists. The link to join these lists is:
http://lists.eastkingdom.org/EmailLists.html
Note that the polling and discussion lists are SEPARATE. You receive the polls on the polling list ONLY, and all discussion takes place on the discussion lists. (more…)
Aethelmearc & Allies took this war point today winning 2 of the 3 parts: In the 10 station course, the East/Mid team earned 1078 points but the Allies tallied 1185. The East/Mid team took the Friend & Foe shoot, 191 to 185. On the long distance Walk-Up shoot, the Allies prevailed with 209 to 200. …
Reminder for the East Kingdom Courts scheduled Friday, August 7: Short Battlefield Court at 12:00 noon Closing Ceremonies at 4:00 p.m.
There were 5 Pennsic war points decided on Tuesday. 3 points: Armored Bridge battles 1 point: Rapier Village battle 1 point: Seige weapon and combat archery battle. Aethelmearc and it’s allies won all 5 points. The weather continues to be fine.
Our second A&S Research Paper comes to us from Mistress Aildreda de Tamworthe, of the Barony of Carolingia, and is drawn from her study of the management of medieval households in England. (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
Inside Blakemere: Notes from the Yearly Accounts of a Late Medieval Household
