[Sca-cooks] OT- Peerage Oaths
Kathleen A Roberts
karobert at unm.edu
Mon Mar 2 08:23:38 PST 2009
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 01:03:35 -0600
Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>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?
of course i wrote my own... how else was i going to make
grown men cry?
we swear on the sword of state, lightning.
it was very persona appropriate (funny, she doesn't look
druish) likening the king to the sun that warms and
protects and the queen to the moon that gently guides our
path in the darkness. i promised to speak praise loudly
and criticism quietly, to nurture and defend the fledgling
and aid and support the experienced. i finished it up
with a rather irish oath of 'this do i swear, and if i do
not, let the heavens fall upon me, the earth break beneath
me and the sea swallow me up.'
the king was crying, his champion was crying, the guard
were crying, the... heck, everybody was crying.
it was very moving, but then it was for bardic arts. ;)
Ban-fili Cailte Caitchairn, OL
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which
sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W. B. Yeats
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Kathleen Roberts
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