ES - New Bard of Kragenworth Keep

[Sam Milligan]

If you missed the Bardic Competition at Tarkus's on Thursday night, you
missed some very fine presentations.  Competing were:

Sir Galen of Bristol, who did The Death Lay of Bowie;
Christie (whose full name I should recall and cannot; I apologise and
offer an elderly and enfeebled condition as mitigation), who presented
the Tale of the Two Bitches;
Timothy of Glastonbury, with an untitled song with the words "will you
stand in the van like an Ansteorran man";
Antigones, with Would You Be a Warlord;
MagD'Leigha Mac an Ghabhann, with a song called Honor and Grace.

The subject was War or Battle, and there was a time limit of five
minutes placed upon the competitors, within which they all managed to
finish.

The judges had an extremely difficult decision, as all of the pieces
presented were excellent, and each bard did an outstanding job. 
However, they finally made their decision: 

The new Bard of Kragenworth Keep until the next competition in January
is

Timothy of Glastonbury

Vivat! and may he find the leather Bardic Cloak that is the symbol of
his position somewhat less hot than I found it to be during the summer
months.

Lord Tarkus also asked me to present a tankard for my personal favorite
work presented that evening (thus shunting back on to me the decision
that I had fobbed off on the judges).  Again, a near impossible decision
to choose among those competing, but I finally settled on Sir Galen for
The Death Lay of Bowie.  

At an appropriate time and place, please make it a point to ask all of
these fine bards to perform their competition pieces for you, that you
might enjoy them as much as I did.

Padraig
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