[Sca-cooks] OT- Peerage Oaths

[James Prescott]

In An Tir my Peerage oaths (OP & OL) were generic, mentioned among other
things continuing to serve / perform, and did not include fealty.

I have sworn fealty a large number of times using a variety of generic,
custom, and historical oaths.

Thorvald



At 1:03 AM -0600 3/2/09, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>  I'm going through some of my back digests and noticed this message 
> from 'Lainie.
>
>  What is the difference between a "Peerage Oath" and the oath used 
> to swear fealty in the SCA? This may be the first I've heard of two 
> different oaths by the same person for essentially the same thing. 
> Or are they?
>
>  While I'm directly this to 'Lainie since it was her comment, I'd be 
> interested in hearing from others as well. (otherwise I'd have sent 
> 'Lainie my question by email).
>
>  I like 'Lainie's idea of swearing fealty with my hands between 
> those of my liege, if the King was someone I respected highly, such 
> as Gunthar, but I guess that is also crossing over between fealty 
> to a person and to an institution.
>
>  For you Peers out there, that swore an oath, was the oath you swore 
> a generic one, or one that you created for yourself or one taken 
> from medieval times?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Stefan