"War Practice" with Outlands

[Jeanne Stapleton]

I mentioned the spelling error to the Kingdom Seneschale; she sighed, 
rolled her eyes, and said she'd get it corrected.

> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 Tyrca at aol.com wrote:
> > I think you mean "Wars of the Staked Plains", don't you?
> > Lady Tyrca Ivarsdottir
> 
> I don't know if this is already common knowledge, but the term
> "staked plains" is period, as is New Mexico's "Land of Enchantment"
> (Los Planos Estacadas and Tierra Encantada).  Bear in mind that
> these weren't flowery tourist phrases; the Spaniards thought the
> place was haunted, or at least Damn Spooky.  When one expedition
> first saw the yucca-covered plains there, legend has it that they
> thought for a moment that Someone or Something had driven hundreds
> of thousands of stakes into the ground before them (the stems of the
> yucca blooms).  A cute story, if nothing else.
> 
> Morric
> (who used to live there; it _can_ be Damn Spooky)
> 
Countess Berengaria de Montfort de Carcassonne, OP
Barony of Caerthe
Kingdom of the Outlands