[Bards] Ansteorran History - Recorded

[Irena Fridenberg]

VERY well put.
Katrine

On 10/30/07, Robert Fitzmorgan <fitzmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     What I very much want is to get on record, (audio or written)
> Ansteorra's History.  As the years pass bits of our history are being lost
> as people forget things, stop playing, or die.
>     In my early years in the SCA I spent many hours listening to William
> Blackfox tell the stories of early years of the Principality and Kingdom of
> Ansteorra.  Those stories are lost now.  I certinly don't remember them well
> enough to tell them.  To my mind this is a tragedy.  And it's a tragedy
> that's going to be repeated unless we do something about it.  I've heard
> Willow, Robin, Blackfox and others tell many wonderful tales of our
> Kingdom.  But I haven't heard any of those tales often enough to re-tell
> them.  When our founders no longer tell those stories will they be lost
> forever?   They don't have to be.
>
>     I never met* Orm Sjoldbidig  *I would love to ask Willow and Johathon
> why they created the Order of the Lion and why they made Orm the first
> Lion.  In fact I would like to ask all of our former Crowns, if they made a
> Lion, why they made that particular Lion.  And I think it would be great if
> we could hear it in their own voices.
>
>     What I want to see, and what I think Zubeydah is proposing is an
> organized effort to record and preserve our history.  Small and
> inconspicuous digital recorders can be had at very reasonable prices.  We
> need people willing to tell the stories and have them recorded, people
> willing to record them, and a place to collect the stories where people can
> access them.
>     We only record the tales that the storytellers want to have
> preserved.  Nothing should be recorded or posted without permission, and no
> one should be berated or condemned because they choose not to be recorded.
>
>   I believe that if we are going to do this, it should be now, before
> anything else is forgotten or anyone else is lost.  I believe this is a
> perfect project for the Bards of Ansteorra.
>
>     I can't make this happen myself.  I can't travel all over the Kingdom
> recording stories.  I don't get to event much these days.  I don't have a
> server to collect the stories on or the skills needed to set one up.  But I
> bet between us on this list we have all the resources needed to make this
> happen.   I would be happy to help organize and coordinate if needed.
>
>    I want to applaud Zubeydah for bringing this up and for actually making
> a start on something I've only been thinking about.  I think this is a
> worthy project and I think we should support it.
>
> Robert Fitzmorgan
>
>
>
> --
> "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been
> much of a day."     John A. Wheeler
>
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Lady Katrine la Escolpiera
Province of Mooneschadowe
Kingdom of Ansteorra
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