[Sca-cooks] OT- Peerage Oaths

[Kathleen A Roberts]

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 
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W. B. Yeats
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Kathleen Roberts
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