[Scriptoris] was : Charters, Now: Inexpensive Award Regalia

[Beth Hansen]

Oh dear!
I hadn't any idea.
Well. Um. I guess I'll toss these, as I'm not scottish and only got them
because i thought they'd make good thistle regalia.  :-(

The fellow does have really nice laurels, though....

zubeydah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Rudin" <serena1570 at yahoo.com>
To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] was : Charters, Now: Inexpensive Award Regalia
> Oh, dear, I hate to rain on this, but the Scottish Thistle is not the same
as
> Ansteorra's Sable Thistle.  In fact, it is presumptuous to wear the
Scottish
> Thistle in the SCA, as it is both a royal Scottish badge and the badge of
the
> Order of the Thistle (Scotland), said order being second only to the Order
of
> the Garter in precedence in Great Britain.  Since we're doing historical
study
> here, it's claiming membership in an order to which one does not belong.
(snippage)