[Ansteorra] the forced award

[Stefan li Rous]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Michael Gunter wrote:

>> It was a lady named Jane the Peasant who really didn't want an  
>> award.  they
>> had tried to give her one because of all the service she did and she
>> finally r got it. Clare
>
> My thoughts, that if someone honestly did not want the award
> but we still wanted to recognize her for her efforts would
> be to find a gift that would mean a lot to her, call her up in Court
> and present her with a gift and thanks from the Crown's hands.
> This shows appreciation, puts her in the spotlight and also is a
> more period offering to her.
>
> Gunthar

Leon's solution, and a funny story, from the archive called the  
Florilegium:


<<<< From: Theron.Bretz at f555.n387.z1.fidonet.org (Theron Bretz)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Surprise! Surprise!
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 20:39:00 -0500

 From the pen(?) of Etienne de Montagu, good greetings:
Regarding awards that "don't fit the persona", I'd like to share a tale:
Many moons ago, there lived in my barony (Bjornsborg,
Ansteorra) a gentle called Leon Donne, a goodly fellow for yeoman
stock. Leon's persona was (still is) an English bowman straight out of
Henry V. When he got his AoA, his solution to the problem was to carry
it (the scroll) around in a leather case at his belt wherever he went,
so that he could prove his right to hunt the King's deer. One day,
some friends of his with more "noble" personas cornered him and
confronted him about "pretending to be a Lord". Leon presented the
scroll to the threesome and the exchange went something like this:
Godwyn (holding the scroll upside down): Michael, you're a Norman, can
you read?
Michael: I thought you could....
Martha (grabbing the scroll away) Here, I can read..... wait this isn't
Portugese!
Leon grabs his scroll and ducks out
Exeunt omnes
I remain,
Etienne de Montagu  >>>>


Stefan
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