ANST - Mooneschadowe Guardian Results

[Mike C. Baker]

(For Minstrel list and old friends, the poem / tribute may be found
following recent "news from home": Haldane Sparhawk has been 
given a Grant of Arms from the Crown of Ansteorra...)

> From: Deborah Sweet <dssweet at okway.okstate.edu>
>      Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald wrote:
> >Their Majesties called Haldane Sparhawk (It use to be Sparrowhawk!!) up 
> >and recognized him for his long years of service to the Shire of 
> >Mooneschadow. HL Haldane moved to Mooneschadow in 1980 and has the 
> >honor (I believe) of being the oldest member (in terms of longevity) 
> >still living in Mooneschadow.
>      Almost right...he attended Mooneschadowe meetings during 1978 &
moved 
>      here in Fall 1979 (not 1980-that's when I moved here). And he 
>      definitely is the longest active member in the group. Lord Ragnar of

>      Ragnarsrock & I argue over which of us is second longest (we each
say 
>      it's the other person).
>      
>      HL Estrill, HL Haldane's very happy wife

ALMOST enough information, and for the rest I believe I can wait until
I speak directly with the principals involved. (Or one or more of them can
e-mail me privately if they so choose).

(I note for the general edification of the reading populace that Ansteorra 
is a bit unusual in the eyes of other SCA kingdoms in that we do grant
the so-called "naked" Grant of Arms from time to time.  There are
typically particular reasons why the Grant is made separate from 
one of the Grant-bearing Companionships / "Orders" / Court Baronies, 
and it is that additional information which leaves me most curious.)

(Hi Estrill, pass my congrats to your loquacious lug, and I'll see y'all
when I get a chance.)

While I've got your attention -- I offer the following for the descendant
of 
the _Moon Runes_, under terms of a blanket permission that may just
still be in my personal files. It is a work in progress; I intend to 
sing the finished version in person at Guardian next year:

		Rememberance: For The Moonschadeen
		(rough draft)  Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra

	Where once there were a few on a windy hill
	Now travels a throng of might and of skill
	And we owe quite a bit to a man named Will:
	Mooneschadowe, the crying winds call!

	Though many are scattered, they remember the call
	That echoed from towers on the red plains one fall
	And never will we forget old Cordell Hall:
	Mooneschadowe, the crying winds howl!

	No trumpet we had but an old huntsman's horn
	No triumph we knew, but new legends were born
	In apartments of students, we dealt with the scorn:
	Mooneschadowe, the crying winds moan!

	From the basements and attics and rooms we came down
	From the old college campus and back ways of the town
	Students laughed at our antics and our parents did frown:
	Moonschadowe, the crying winds _are_!

	And the Dream learnt from Blackfox, Sternwald, Dragonstar
	We hammered -- forged -- quenched in red earth of the Star
	Did not know very much, but good gods! we've gone far:
	Mooneschadowe, crying winds -- NEVER stilled! 

Mike C. Baker
SCA: Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra
"Other": Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)
My opinions are my own -- who else would want them?
e-mail: kihe at ticnet.com OR kihe at rocketmail.com



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