[Glaslyn] Chivalry

[Carolle M Cox]

Steppes Warlord was a wonderful first for me and mine.  It is the largest
event we've been to so far in our short career with Glaslyn, and we
thoroughly enjoyed every minute we were there. I hope that in years to come
we can make the same awed statements you so eloquently did!

The "easy" answer to a definition of chivalry is to repair to the
dictionary, but somehow i have trouble with doing that.  I have seen acts in
the three events (and several fighter practices) i've been at that i would
insist upon calling chivalrous, "book" definition notwithstanding.  Rather
than write a long boring tome listing those acts, perhaps it would be best
to boil the thing down to what i told my daughter just recently:

"Our people strive to live all that was good and beautiful from the Medieval
age.  They try to be fair - no, more than fair - at all times.  They look
for ways to help those around them and work to be courteous even when
another person may not deserve such treatment"

Carolle

----- Original Message -----
From: "S. McFarlane" <tanwyn at flash.net>
To: "Glaslyn" <glaslyn at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: [Glaslyn] Chivalry


> Greetings all,
>
> I hope that everyone had a wonderful time at Warlord, and that we all have
> returned home safely and without incident.
> There was so much to do and so many people to visit with, and me only able
> to stay a day and 1/2.<pout>
> I arrived on site Sat afternoon, and as I came upon the list field from
the
> road, I felt as if I was about to be transported back in time,  seeing the
> equestrian events going on with all the trappings and with all bright
colors
> and heraldry flying about, then all the period pavilions on top of all
> that...wow! Have we come a long way or what? It truly looked as if a
> medieval fair was going on, (aside from the obvious mundanities of that
> site!)
> Stepps Warlord was my first event many years ago, and will always be dear
to
> me.
>
> Now with this event still fresh in our  minds, I would like to throw out a
> question for us to reflect upon:
> Chivalry, ......What does this mean to you?
>
> Yours in Service,
> HL Tanwyn~
>
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