ANST - Warlord 25 Mystery - anyone??

[Glenn McFarland]

Greetings...

They did not hold Warlord in 74.

I was the 9th Warlord, but that was in 1982. 

By the way, Drake won the Warlord tourney this year...Ingve won the
Rapier tourney..

Regards,
Thorkel

> From ansteorra-owner at bastion.globeset.com Mon Jun  8 13:42 CDT 1998
> From: jschumac at jcpenney.com (Joel Schumacher)
> Subject: ANST - Warlord 25 Mystery - anyone??
> To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:29:24 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> I'm still a bit confused about this past Warlord being Warlord 25.
> 
> The site booklet and site tokens show that Warlord began in May 1973
> and was won by Richard of Montroyal.  It also states that it's the
> "oldest continuous tournament in Ansteorra".
> 
> If it began in '73 and was held every year (continuous), that would
> make the '98 Warlord the 26th Warlord (see below).
> 
> The site booklet listed 24 previous Warlords (as if the 25th hadn't
> been chosen yet).  If we start with 1973 and start assigning years and
> counting warlords, it should look like this:
> 
> <PRE>
> 
> Year  Warlord #  Warlord
> ----- ---------  ----------------------------------------
> 1973      1      Richard of Montroyal
> 1974      2      Torgatai Blackwolf
> 1975      3      Sean MacFlamm of Ravenswaard
> 1976      4      Amra of Acre
> 1977      5      Simonn of Amber Isle
> 1978      6      Jonathan of DeLaufyson
> 1979      7      Freyna Geardson
> 1980      8      Jonathan of DeLaufyson II
> 1981      9      Thorkel Magnusson
> 1982     10      Charles Inman MacMoore
> 1983     11      Hrothgar of Farley
> 1984     12      Gerard MacEanruig
> 1985     13      Hector Phillip Martel
> 1986     14      Sutan Bloodaxe
> 1987     15      Charles Inman MacMoore II
> 1988     16      Burke Kyrill MacDonald
> 1989     17      Charles Inman MacMoore III
> 1990     18      Gerard MacEanruig II
> 1991     19      Gunthar Jonsson
> 1992     20      William Meisko
> 1993     21      Mikael of Monmouthshire
> 1994     22      Earl Rorick Galsbraith
> 1995     23      Burke Kyrill MacDonald II
> 1996     24      Timo Kranidious
> 1997     25      Ingve of Yorvik
> 1998     26      ???
> 
> </PRE>
> 
> The bottom of the list doesn't seem to line-up quite right.  Ingve
> should be Warlord 26, Timo should be Warlord 25, and so on.  Either
> somebody's missing from the list or Warlord skipped some year along the
> way.  Does anybody know which?
> 
> The site booklet is titled "Steppes Warlord 25th Anniversary".  That
> sounds right.  ie. The 25th anniversary of the first Warlord.  But the
> term Warlord 25 would not be correct.  The 25th Anniversary is the 26th
> event.  (Just like the 1st anniversary of an event is the 2nd occurance
> of the event, the 2nd anniversery is the 3rd event, and so on).
> 
> Somebody suggested that because the 1973 Warlord was just a May Day
> Tourney, it didn't count as a warlord.  Then Richard of Montroyal
> shouldn't be listed on the list of past Warlords and there's still
> somebody missing.  Or he won again in '74 and is "properly" on the list.
> 
> Is this just one of those non-sensical decisions made by somebody who
> couldn't count along the way?  And now that's the way it is and we're
> always going to be off by one?  "What's this next Warlord?  Don't know,
> lost count...  OK, let's just call the next one 10 and count from there".
> 
> Even if the event is labeled wrong there should still be 26 Warlords.
> Who's missing?
> 
> -Karl von Augsburg
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