[Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth er than the ...

[Keyna]

Above the board and below the board is actually what took place back in
those days. If you got an invitation to come to a palace for say a
coronation, wedding, or installing a baron. That was a very honored  and a
high class event. you wear your very best and frilly outfits and if you
could pay to sit at the tables with the nobility you were consideder above
the board.
If you get invited and you can't pay for the feast you would not even be
allowed to be near the tables when the feast was taking place. Back then
just to be able to eat let a lone hols a sizable feast for several is also
considered for the nobility. The average person was just above the poor
level or below.
Keyna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob rose" <onetruewolf at hotmail.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth
er than the ...


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> so then, what i am getting from this is that if i pay feast, but my lady
does
> not, we shouldn't be allowed to eat together?  Or at least, she shouldn't
be
> allowed to eat with the rest of the people?  This is how i am taking it.
> Please tell me that I am wrong.
>
> Ian Macleod
> >From: "Harris Mark.S-rsve60"
> >Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> >To: "'ansteorra at ansteorra.org'"
> >Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast...
oth er
> than the ...
> >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:16:35 -0700
> >
> >Lady Susannah Blackthorne said:
> > > Forgive me, but I don't understand. In MiddleKingdom, when I
> > > was exiled
> > > there, we always had Above the board and below the board
> > > seating at a feast.
> > > They were shown the same hospitality as those paying feast,
> > > and we served
> > > them drinks. I fail to understand where the hospitality went.
> >
> >But those "Above board" and "Below board" seatings were not
> >mixed together, correct? So you couldn't sit with your
> >friends if some had paid for feast and you hadn't.
> >
> >The drinks are a nice touch and something that can be paid
> >for out of the gate fees rather than the feast fees.
> >
> >Why is the Ansteorran tradition of allowing paid and
> >non-paying feasters to eat together, even though it
> >is a major inconvenience to the headcook and servers,
> >less hospitalble?
> >
> >Or are you talking about some inhospitality that has little
> >connection to whether the non-paying feasters can dine in
> >the same hall as the ones who paid for the feast?
> >
> >Stefan li Rous
> >stefan at texas.net
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