[Bordermarch] SCA Origins, 1965

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Thank you for the information, it was interesting to find out how the SCA got started.

;)?? Elijah


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and the rest,...as they say....is  History ! ! !...our History.


Bill C Burgin <billcburgin at yahoo.com> wrote: apparently, it was more fun than 
not.
  ;{>
  EricS

tessa  wrote:
  Compliments today of Sir Ian in Rosenfeld: a bit o' research ...
The History of the Kingdom of The West
Pre-History
The Origins of the SCA 
The origins of the SCA go back to the year 1965, when David Thewlis (now Duke 
Siegfried von Hoflichskeit) and Ken de Maiffe (now Duke Fulk de Wyvern) were 
studying the medieval orders of chivalry and the art of sword and shield 
fighting. In February of 1966 they began practicing sword and shield fighting in 
the backyard of Diana Paxson (now Countess Diana Listmaker), a medieval history 
major at the University of California at Berkeley. David and Ken had made the 
swords out of wood and the shields out of plywood, and were trying to teach 
themselves how to fight and thereby learning how it was really done. They based 
their actions on the old order of chivalry. Diana was enthralled with the idea 
and remembered the fabled "Last Tournament". This was an event which took place 
in Scotland in 1839. The Earl of Eglanton, a high-minded young nobleman, 
complete with castle, serfs, and a head full of the novels of Sir Walter Scott, 
decided to dramatize the values of the Middle Ages,
 whi
ch were Scott's and his own answer to the problems of the Industrial Revolution, 
by having a tournament. Costumes were prepared, banners were sewn, and the 
springs of the London hansom cabs broken by the weight of men in armor being 
born to practice. In was the social event of the year. The Great Day arrived and 
the splendid procession processed and the jousting commenced. And then it began 
to rain ... Do you know what happens to armor in the rain? And banners? And 
respectable English noblemen without any shelter? That was the end of the 
Romantic Period in England. (This is taken from Diana Paxson's fanzine, 
Patterns, which gave an account of the first tournament of the SCA.) 
Diana, David and Ken came up with the idea of holding a new "Last Tournament." 
They would invite all of their friends over to Diana's backyard at 2219 Oregon 
St., in Berkeley, California for a tournament. Everyone would come in costume 
and the men could all be knights and fight with wooden swords and shields for 
the right to crown their lady Queen for the day. Diana was going to graduate in 
June and this would be a last fling before the end of the quarter and finals. 
The event was set for May Day, May 1, 1966. It was intended to be a single time 
event, just for fun. Nobody ever expected it to continue. 
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