[Ansteorra] the old days

[Richard Morgan]

And the lovely lady Aethelyan gliding across the field.

Sir Richard ap Morgan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elisabeth B. Zakes" <kitharis at gmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] the old days


> On the other hand, there were plenty of people wearing metal chain and 
> plate
> armour on the field (Sir Simonn and Master Godfrey being the two I 
> remember
> best), the famous Eisenfaust helms, proper cotehardies, Norman-style 
> tunics,
> and handmade leather shoes. Elizabethan doublets and thigh-high riding
> boots.
>
> Not nearly as much linen as we see now, as we were just getting a feel for
> non-polyester fabrics, but I saw quite a bit of cotton and cotton velvet. 
> My
> first tunic was brushed cotton, hand sewn. I still have it. My second was 
> a
> blue and white satin gown, mid-1300s in style, and I added a sideless
> surcoat shortly after that.
>
> Most of the fairies and chainmail bikinis that I saw were at RenFair, not 
> at
> the events I attended. Maybe Pandora and I went to different events. :)
>
> Ciard d'Algeneaux introduced me to "speaking forsoothly" -- he used "thee"
> and "thou" liberally. One lord could kiss a hand like he was making love 
> to
> it. (I won't mention his name or all the ladies would be beating a path to
> his door. He's still around. *grin*)
>
> Smells? There were more cloved lemons around than there are now. Robbie 
> and
> Dupre were running the Blue Bottle Tavern, and the smells from that were
> heavenly!
>
> Sounds -- Iolo singing in the park. Seanna telling stories or holding
> "Courtly Graces" discussions. Gwendolyn Dirk Sterne cheerfully tackling 
> any
> newcomer she saw and shoving them (nicely!) into proper clothing from the
> well-stuffed Hospitaller's chest. Goshen setting up Jacob's Ladder and 
> then
> proving that it was not impossible to climb.
>
> Aethelyan, semi-fossil
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:05, Leslie Snipes <lesdsnipes at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I so wish I had my photo albums here!
>> You would have seen everything from bedsheet togas to princess dresses to
>> faux chainmail bikinis to barbarians draped in oh so obviously faux fur, 
>> the
>> kind we used to make big pillows from (and you'd have seen lots of those
>> pillows) and not necessarily in animal colors.  Oh, and fairies and 
>> pixies
>> and all sorts of mythical beasts!
>> Lots of drums, lots and lots of drums. We turned everything into drums. 
>> Of
>> course, it wasn't unusual for us to have commercial drumsticks on hand to
>> beat them with either :)
>> After darkness set in, you'd not have seen much.  We didn't have the 
>> candle
>> thing down very well at all and rarely anything beyond candles at all. 
>> Lots
>> of stumbling around in the dark but that wasn't all from the darkness.
>> Oh, my the smells.  Rarely, rarely had running water on sites so by the
>> second night and fighters having fought for 2 days... And the smell of
>> poorly brewed beer would have knocked you over but for the fact the smell 
>> of
>> wafting pot that already had.
>>
>> Girls stumbling around campsites in the morning sun in sheer gauze
>> dresses.  Hm, maybe it's a good thing those photo albums are tucked away.
>> Perhaps, since the SCA has taken on a more serious perspective of history
>> since then, it's good that so much of the early days seems to have
>> disappeared into thin air (with Merlin).
>>
>> It was the late 1970's and the last gasps of the hippies and most of us
>> were young and broke!
>>
>> Pandora
>>
>> --- On Tue, 9/15/09, Coblaith Muimnech <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Coblaith Muimnech <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: [Ansteorra] the old days
>> To: "Inc. Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA" <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 3:50 AM
>>
>> Bryn Gwlad's forthcoming fall event is themed around the Society as it 
>> was
>> when the barony was founded <http://sca1979.swordworks.org/>.   You'd
>> think it'd be easier to find information on the clothes, goods, and 
>> customs
>> of that period than those I usually study, but that has thus far not 
>> proved
>> to be the case.  So I turn to you, my compatriots.  Had I wandered into 
>> an
>> S.C.A. event thirty years ago, what would I have seen, heard, and 
>> smelled?
>> And do you have photos?
>>
>>
>> Coblaith Muimnech
>> <mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
>> <http://coblaith.net>
>>
>>
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