[Bards] New Question

willow Taylor willowjonbardc at juno.com
Mon Jun 30 15:29:57 PDT 2003


 Seigneur Etienne de St. Amaranth

Milord, I find the fact to be very interesting persona wise. There is
some evidence that the Norse went into singing until the 12 th. century.
Caroling and dancing became popular at that time.  Does anybody out there
have any data on this.

Willow
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:57:50 -0500 "Herndon, Darin"
<DHerndon at bswintl.com> writes:
> Your Grace,
> 
> I perform stories as well and stories are really all I perform.  I 
> don't
> sing; carrying a tune is not one of my skills.
> 
> I began doing bardic pieces and developing my persona at the same 
> time.
> As a result, most of my bardic stories are either from my persona's
> point of view or tales my persona learned on my persona's 
> grandfather's
> knee.
> 
> My persona is a grandson of one of the original Norse who settled 
> into
> Normandy.  My father died when I was very young (so I never knew him
> really).  As a result, I was raised by my mother (a Frankish lady of 
> the
> courts) and my grandfather (old world Norse).  It offers me a lot of
> opportunity to dabble in two different worlds and pull stories from
> both.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Seigneur Etienne de St. Amaranth
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: willow Taylor [mailto:willowjonbardc at juno.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 4:42 PM
> To: bards at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Bards] New Question
> 
> Dear fellow Bards
> 
> I am a new question.  What do you perform in the SCA?
>  I have been a story teller for most of my life. When I was ten I 
> set up
> a story telling booth next to my girl friend's lemonade booth and 
> made
> as
> much money as she did. When I started in the SCA I wasn't a 
> performer. I
> was an organizer and an autocrat. I didn't really start to build my
> persona until I was in Ansteorra. When I started to work on my
> historical
> persona I realized that entertainment is part of the role of a 
> person in
> the  middle ages. Everybody did something. The gentle born were 
> suppose
> to do more. People entertained themselves and it would of gotten 
> really
> boring if everybody didn't perform . Who was that Saxon cleric who
> prayed
> to God to help him out because when the horn was passed to him he 
> could
> not think of anything? As I advanced in the SCA I became a patron of 
> the
> bardic arts. In history you will find many nobles who did things like
> that, Robert of Normandy and Richard the Lionhearted. They usually
> participated in the art form. So my performance are part of my 
> living my
> persona. 
> 
> Willow de Wisp
> 
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