[Ansteorra-archery] Royal Rounds and IKAC

[Eadric Anstapa]

ld.blackmoon wrote:
> hhmmmmm , the kingdom heraldric types informed me that " don " is not a
> title , but one of many ways to say " lord " and that the archery comunity
> should have no problems using any of those names as long as it wasnt already
> in common usage ( such as "don " )
>
> but perhaps i am mistaken and should go back to tending my own back yard ,
> as it were .
>
> be safe, be happy, have fun
> arthur

Don is indeed a title for "lord"  technically you or I could call 
ourselves Don and ask to be heralded into court that way but we would 
piss people off and Ansteorra Law says /"It shall be recognized 
tradition in Ansteorra to address members of the Order as  "Don" or 
"Doña.""/ and personally I think it would be disrespectful for you or I 
to use the title Don.
Because the Order of the White Scarf has spread to so many other 
kingdoms the title Don is basically only used for members of that order.

Other words recognized by the SCA as substitute titles for Lord are:

    Domn     
    Dominus     
    Signore     
    Seigneur
    Señor   
    Senhor     
    Senyor     
    Kûrios
    Tiarna     
    Tighearn(a)     
    Arglwydd/Boneddig/Bonheddwr
    Hlaford     
    Herr     
    Gebieder     
    Herre
    Heera     
    Herre     
    Drottinn
    Pan     
    Pomestnik     
    Herra
    Gyula     
    Zoti/Bujar     
    Efendi
    Reb     
    Sayyid
    Arya
    Chu     
    -san

So we could use any of those titles if we wanted.  But after getting our 
collective butts chewed out by a crown and Star Principal herald because 
we thought we would like to have a term used by tradition to indicate 
members of our order in the same way the White Scarf has Don and in the 
same way the Centurions are often addressed as   /Centurion whoever /  I 
don't think that is butt chewing that the CAO wants to bring on again 
soon by suggesting ourselves that we be addressed by any other singular 
title.

If the archery community wishes to start using one of the words that are 
allowed, say for instance   Arya,  I do not think any CAO would be offended.

Regards,

-EA