ANST - Lyoness

[Keith Hood]

>
>If I recall correctly it grew out of a previous event known as Lions.
>

Yes, originally Baron Jan of Bjornsborg conducted a tourney known as the 
Tournament of the Lions.  It was unique in one way --- it was (if I remember 
correctly) the only tourney in the kingdom in which the lower legs were 
legal targets in combat.  Participants were required to wear shin armor, and 
he had to get special dispensation from kingdom and BOD to allow that 
non-standard practice.  Where Lyonesse is centered on pageantry, Lions was 
an event more dedicated to advanced fighting.

The final hill battle at Lions (and Lyonesse) used to take place on one of 
the slopes of the creek a way downstream from the list field.  They can't 
use that slope any more because the flood of 1998 carved out the stream 
banks to where they are too nearly perpendicular.

Some others differences: Where Lyonesse usually involves a bridge battle, in 
Lions they put up a structure that represented a castle gate and you had to 
fight through that.  Also, Lions used to include a cheval events, both 
individually and with all present divided into two armies, in which fighters 
had to make passing attacks while acting as if mounted.  Watching some of 
the big hairy items on the field trying to imitate the motion of a man atop 
a prancing horse was in some cases a real strain on the brain.   :-)


     Tomonaga


--
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!

        -- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
               By Robert E. Howard, who should be
                 the patron saint of Ansteorra

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