SC - scadianisms

[Huette von Ahrens]

Actually, it is more than a West Kingdom thing.  Caid
also calls its list ropes "eric".  But then we used to
be part of the West a long time ago.

Huette

- --- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> > Yes, but at least "eric" has an SCA story
> (history) behind it, as opposed to
> > just being a word used to substitute for something
> that doesn't sound
> > medieval. The use of "eric" is part of the SCA
> culture deriving (as I
> > understand it) from the old red ribbon/fabric used
> to mark the list field
> > which was fondly called "Eric the Red" by those
> who used it... It was later
> > shortened to Eric and extrapolated by others to
> denote the list boundary
> > long after the orignal "eric" was no longer used.
> > 
> > Or so I have been told.
> > 
> > Caitlin of Enniskillen
> 
> This what I've been told. But it is a West Kingdom
> thing, not a Scadian
> thing. For more details on this, I think it is
> covered in one of these
> files in the SCA-STORIES section of my Florilegium:
> SCA-hist1-msg     (86K)  5/15/92    Msgs on the
> history of the SCA until 5/92. 
> SCA-hist2-msg    (122K)  8/20/94    Msgs on the
> history of the SCA until 8/94.
> SCA-hist3-msg    (106K)  9/22/98    Msgs on the
> history of the SCA.
> West-hist-msg     (31K)  4/10/98    Histories of the
> West Kingdom.
> -- 
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad   
> Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas          
> stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:
>         
>
http://lg_photo.home.texas.net/florilegium/index.html
> ****
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