[Sca-cooks] OT- Peerage Oaths

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Wed Mar 4 00:15:14 PST 2009


Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Urtatim replied to me with:
>
> <<< Here in the West...
>
> Peers are asked (but not required) to swear fealty when there's a 
> change of royalty. Some royalty call them up peerage by peerage, or 
> sometimes as a whole group of peers. This is repeated at Principality 
> events, in case anyone missed the kingdom event.>>>
>
> Thank you for the detailed description, and to others that have 
> answered as well. I feel an SCA-oaths-msg file coalescing, to go with 
> the Florilegium file on period oaths...
>
> They don't call up the knights individually to give their oaths? That 
> is often done here in Ansteorra, although I don't think it is common 
> in Ansteorra for the other Peers to get time for individual oaths. 
> While it is period, I find the individual oaths to be rather boring 
> and drawn out at Coronations, at least for the audience. You can't 
> hear the individual oaths. You just get to sit and twiddle your 
> fingers, or whatever. At least when the oath is done as a group, there 
> is a herald announcing each line so the audience can hear it. Of 
> course in period, since they usually didn't change Royalty every six 
> months (or three), the oaths would have been individual and spread out 
> over a much longer span of time. 


They certainly don't do that here.  (Cripes, even in relatively small 
Lochac, it'd take all blimmin' day!)

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo 

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