SC - scadianisms

[Huette von Ahrens]

Other than it was red rope, not ribbon, your story
is correct.  Master John ap Griffin provided the
rope for the West Kingdom in the very, very early
days of the SCA.  He used to be a rope salesman. 

Huette 

- --- Catherine Hartley <caitlin_ennis at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> >As opposed to certain other Scadian neologies that
> merely duplicate the
> >meanings of existing words or phrases, and are in
> some cases misleading 
> >uses
> >of terms that already have established meanings.
> Such as "smalls" for
> >children, "feastocrat" for chef, "eric" for list,
> "redaction" for
> >interpretation/interpreted recipe, and so on.
> >
> >Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
> >
> 
> 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
> 
>
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