[Bards] Traditions - A Poem

[Master Darius]

Please forgive I did not mean to indicate that bowing before the thrones was
good or bad, simply that it would not be bad to teach why some of us in
Ansteorra chose to take this action.

The question seems now more to be "Weather or not it is _Ansteorran_ to bow
before the empty thrones."
I would argue the case thus:  (forgive me if this seems convoluted)

I was taught when I joined the SCA to do this as it was was right and
proper, I was taught this in Ansteorra and so considered it kingdom custom.
I know many others who have been taught this as well. I have the intervening
time and travel met many who believe it is not needed as the empty thrones
are not the royal presence.

I have choosen to maintain the custom of bowing before the thrones for
reasons that I have already given. I do not tut and fuss to those who do not
as they do not consider the empty thrones to be a part of the royal
presence. Likewise those who choose not to bow, have not fussed at me for
doing so.

I see value in both sides of the aurgument. I would say from looking at this
that it is far more important that here we may choose to bow before the
empty thrones or not and that choice of how we each choose to play the game
is Ansteorran custom.

Darius
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Martin" <BMartin at Corp.Prodigy.com>
To: <bards at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Bards] Traditions - A Poem


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> All,
>
> I don't think that anyone is saying that bowing in front of the thrones is
> "good" or "bad". We are questioning whether or not is Ansteorran
tradition.
> Given that much of our history and our culture has been forgotten over the
> years, I think that it is important to keep in touch with our particularly
> Ansteorran traditions. It is those traditions that help make our
Ansteorran
> culture unique from other kingdoms. Our motto is, after all, Unique and
> Singular (or something close to that in Latin).
>
> I therefore suggest that if we care to address bowing before the thrones,
we
> teach the history given by Duchess Willow: we respectfully state that why
it
> is a custom elsewhere, but why it is also not a custom here.
>
> Having said all of that, I will also say that if someone wants to put
> together a book of any sort, it can't be done by committee. Lots of input
> can be welcome and considered, but at the end of the day one person or a
> very small group must decide what goes in and what stays out. If someone
out
> there doesn't like what's been published, they can always publish their
own
> book.
>
> My two cents,
> Pendaran
>