[Elfsea] awards & insignia

baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org
Tue Jul 31 04:59:06 PDT 2001


Order of the Gaping Wound?  That was an actual official
Middle Kingdom award thirty or so years ago.  It was
given to people who had been seriously injured in SCA
combat, kind of like a Purple Heart.

But when the Crown and the Marshalate realized that
there were people who had given up on receiving any
other award who were striving to earn the Order of the
Gaping Wound, they closed the Order.

I guess they decided that being unsafe on the field
wasn't something they wanted to encourage.

- Galen
awards geek from _way_ back!

Quoting blakrose <blakrose at swbell.net>:
> > if ya'll are wondering about obscure awards   how
about the 'Order of The
> > Gaping Wound'
>
> how many can tell what this order was given for?
>
> Cian




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