East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The overall theme of these baskets is Viking, both in honor of Birka, and our fair Queen Thyra. Their Majesties may also be having Mongolian guests, if your skills lie more in the Easterly direction. Some ideas for gifts follow, but you should by no means limit yourself to the items suggested (please also bear …
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 …
At Bergental/BBM Yule on Dec 8th, we’ll hold a COOKIE SALE to benefit the Royal Travel Fund. This has become a very popular part of our festive celebrations over the past few years. We need your cookies! Please bake and donate! Cookies do not need to follow period recipes. We do ask that you include a …
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 …
Cold November winds have blown what was left of the autumn leaves from the trees and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. The cold, hard, fallow season can’t be far behind. Fight off the winter blahs during the months ahead by planning and preparing for the new campaigning season next summer. Several events are already on the East …
UPDATE: the site was NOT affected by Hurricane Sandy. The Fall Feast of Simplefare will go on as scheduled. Please come and have a VERY good time! Good gentles, this is a reminder that the annual Fall Feast of Simplefare will be held Saturday, November 3, 2012 in the Barony Beyond the Mountain. During the day, …
In public consistory, at the time of the solemn and royal court held at Concordia of the Snows, a brilliant assembly of counts and barons being in session, and a very great multitude of nobles and commoners standing before the most serene lord Edward King of the East, and Thyra his Queen, for the purpose …
Those gentles from the North who are attending EK Coronation this weekend with plans to travel south on I-87, please be aware that there is major structural work being done on the Twin Bridges (between exits 8 and 7). Depending on whether they again close lanes, there is the potential for significant delays which could …
Information provided by Lucien de Pontivy This weekend’s coronation ceremony will be interwoven with beautiful, moving music led and performed by luminaries from across the East Kingdom. The musicians and singers, coordinated by Mistress Aife ingen Chonchobair in Derthaige, will perform SCA-period extant works from England and Denmark, including: Pange Melos Lacrimosum Gaudete Heres Optatus …