SC - cloved fruit game origin

[Stefan li Rous]

Cariadoc said:

> For example ...  . I don't know of any evidence that cloved fruit is a
> period practice--my vague impression is that it was invented in the SCA. I
> know of no evidence that the sort of contests we often have in the SCA
> corresponded to anything that would have happened at a medieval wedding
> feast. 

You are correct, at least in the cloved fruit game being an SCA invention.

Honour Horne-Jaruk (persona name - Alizaunde, Demoiselle de Bregeuf) was
apparently the inventor of this game. Her explanation and apology for this 
can be found in this file in the ENTERTAINMENT section of my Florilegium files:

cloved-fruit-msg  (14K)  3/ 7/96    Period cloved fruit. Origin of the SCA game.

My files can be found at: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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