[Bards] Re: Bards - A challenge !

[Beth Wolff]

Ivo,

Will you be at Steppes Warlord? If so, I will be glad to sit and talk with
you at length about what it means to be a titled bard.

Elanor


>From: "Ivo Blackhawk" <ivo_blackhawk at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: bards at ansteorra.org
>To: northern at ansteorra.org
>CC: bards at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Bards - A challenge !
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:11:43 -0500
>
>We as bards must never forget that that our tradecraft rests squarely upon
>two factors, and two factors alone.  The first is the enjoyment of the
>population at large, ands the second is the preservation of what history
>teaches us.
>
>My first official act as Northern Regional Bard is to cast the gauntlet of
>challenge to all who would hear me. To all, young and old, far and hear, to
>the north, the south, the east the west, and coast and the hills, hear my
>call.
>
>My title is Northern Regional Bard; the title comes with a scroll and a
>medallion, but not instructions.  I do not even know all of the names of
>the people who bore this title before we.
>
>I do inquire to all, bard, fighter, artisan, noble, landed and common, to
>tell me; what is the role of the bardic champion of a region?  I do wish to
>know what is expected of me, what can be done today, this week, this month,
>and this year?  My role is a leader, but I have no example to follow. So I
>now open the floor for all to tell me what they see in my title, and what
>they would like to see. What was done is the past, what worked, what was
>done that did not. I stand in the midst of a vast library; I now call to
>the scrolls and books stored therein to divulge their contents that I may
>learn.
>
>
>Lord Ivo Blackhawk
>“Northern Regional Bard”
>“God Save the King!”
>
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