East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The great East Kingdom bardic competition draws near. Our gracious King and Queen will choose their new champions, while the populace will enjoy the story and song. To show the bards that we appreciate their gifts of entertainment, we are encouraging the populace to give their site token as a gift to a worthy bard. …
If you were at Birka last weekend you might have seen people with nifty items for which they did not pay! Thieves?? No just happy receivers of gifts made JUST for them from Swap II of the East Kingdom Artisanal Exchange. While Swap II has drawn to a close Swap III is now open looking …
The Society Seneschal’s office is seeking a Deputy Seneschal for Market Research to develop and implement a market research capability support the ongoing primary research needs that will prove fundamental to the continued improvement of decision-making for the Society for Creative Anachronism.
The Deputy Seneschal for Market Research will be tasked with integrating existing survey research tools and resources from the significant prior efforts of the 2010 Census Committee with any new staff and tools that may be necessary to support the research and analysis goals and needs to provide the actionable intelligence necessary to improve Society decision-making.
The Society Social Media Policy has been approved by the Board of Directors and is now available for download at www.sca.org/docs/pdf/SCASocialMediaPolicy.pdf. The Society has recently debuted its official presences on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/currentmiddleages and on Twitter @SCAsocial and we encourage you to visit and subscribe to those presences to see news and information from across the Known World. …
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
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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. (more…)
Results from both Chivalric and Fencing Tournaments at the 2013 Market Day at Birka have been posted to the Northern Army website. Vivat to Kenrick of Warwick who placed first in the Chivalric bear pit, and to Quintin Brilliant who placed first in the Fencing Bear pit. Congratulations to everyone who competed!
The Board of Directors has approved the social media policy which was created by a working group of Society and Corporate officers starting in early 2012. For more about the approach that the SCA is developing for social media, see the Gazette’s interview with Lord Tobias Morgan, Deputy Society Seneschal for Social Media.
At the Board of Directors meeting today, the petition by the Shire of Endewearde to become a barony was approved. The motion was made by Duke Martin Lochner. It was seconded by Duke John the Bearkiller. The vote was unanimous with the observation that this is a thriving group with all their documents in order.