[Ansteorra] Story of glory in the heat.

[Richard Threlkeld]

I was a Chirurgeon and Marshal at Barn SilverAxe's King's Champion
tournament. It was the hottest contest I have seen in Ansteorra with a
temperature of 110 F in the shade. It was a bear pit with four pits and no
maximum wins. Each fighter got tokens to start. Each time he/she lost, a
token was transferred to the winner. When informed of the weather, the King
ordered that anyone who refused to drink when offered water would be
disqualified. The children waterbearing enjoyed being in control for a
while. 

We had no heat injuries among the fighters and only one among the
spectators. One fighter declared he would give half of his tokens to each
person who beat him. He only lost once, so he was in a pit from about 9:30
AM until about 4:30 PM. That fighter later became Duke Gunther. I was so
impressed I wrote my one and only poem about a fighter in the SCA.

Oh, and I got my AoA that day.

In service,
Caelin on Andrede



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Subject: [Ansteorra] Story from nine Worthies concerning the weather

I can remember a Tourney of the Nine  Worthies started out at 90 degrees at
9 o'clock in the morning.  Then  it started to rain. Usually a good rain
will help to cool things down but in  this case it just made one feel hot,
wet, sticky and miserable.  Duchess  Rowan who was the Crown during this
event ( Hector was running late- real  late) noticed the lack of enthusiasm
from the fighters to get into armor, jumped  up on a hay bale in the middle
of the downpour, her herald shouted for all to  attend .  " We're not going
to let a little rain and some heat  stop our fun, are we?" she shouted. All
in attendance yelled back  "NO!"  " Then lets get this tournament started!"
she 
replied back.   Just as the crowd started to break up to  get ready, the
rain 
suddenly  stopped and a small break in the clouds opened up to cast full
sunlight on Rowan  standing alone on top of that bale of hay.  I guess that
is where the  legend of the Iron Rose having dominion over the weather
started. 
 It ended  up being a hot, wonderful day.
 
That's my story and I'm sticking to it
 Baron Bors of Lothian
( I was there and even though I am 64, still remember my name and my
history.)
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/12/2010 7:26:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
wiselaw at comcast.net writes:

Greetings all,

Sir Alexis LaBouche

p.s. Haven't kept  track of the number of kingdoms, but has been quite a 
few.
Also, there was  a certain charge up Senlac Hill in full mail harness 
against
a couple of  feisty Saxons wielding steel weapons...While not the original
Battle of  Hastings, the weight of the riveted mail harness over the aketon
felt  pretty real to me as I adjusted the conical to account for the trot of
the  horse..

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