{"id":1825,"date":"2019-11-13T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2020-01-04T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T21:30:40","slug":"letter-to-the-barony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/letter-to-the-barony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Barony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good People of Skraeling Althing,<br>\n<br>\nHave you all recovered yet from an epic 40<sup>th<\/sup> Feast of the Hare? It\nwas quite the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to thank Their Majesties and Highnesses for\nhelping the barony celebrate such an important anniversary. And of course, we\nalways welcome our cousins from l\u2019Ile du Dragon Dormant, as good friends and\nnever the source of any cross border shenanigans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you also to the event staff, and to all helpers who\nweren\u2019t officially \u201cstaff\u201d, but pitched in throughout the day. An SCA event is\nonly a success because so many people are willing to give of their time and\neffort to make it so. <br>\n<br>\nTo those who attended us throughout the day, and to both Lady Amalthea and Her\nExcellency Breyla who worked to coordinate our entourage, thank you for helping\nus to stay on track and get so much done during the day. We couldn\u2019t have done\nit without you. We had a number of people who joined us for the first time as\nentourage, so a special thank you to them. We hope we weren\u2019t too scary \ud83d\ude09.\n<br>\n<br>\nWe would also thank all of those who presented us with largesse and gifts\nthroughout the day, including those who participated in the largesse derby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was such a busy day, there\u2019s no way we could capture the\nwhole day here. However we did do a fair number of pop-up court items, so a\nquick recap is probably helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We are grateful to our new Rapier and Armoured\nChampions, Her Ladyship Cristabel Wensleydale and His (new ) Lordship James\nEdgarson. <\/li><li>We presented bunny tails to Jeanne Raysd\u00f6ttor\n&amp; Ricardo Colombo, as well as Vargo of Tor Brant.<\/li><li>We presented authorization kits to Skrael\u2019s\nnewest authorized fencers, Sir Mordain and Sir Varenko, as well as to our\nlatest authorized armoured combatant Hreiddar.<\/li><li>We presented pronoun tags to Dierdru Armiger,\nTHL Elsebeth and Lady Petronill in thanks for their help in adding pronoun\npreferences to the Skrael award recommendation form.<\/li><li>We presented Her Excellency Augusta with a\nCarrot of Excellence for traveling all the way to Hare just to teach a thrown\nweapon\u2019s marshal class, so that the Barony can have more thrown weapons\nactivities this coming summer (an activity dear to both of us).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During court, we did a number of other items of business as\nwell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Sir Varenko was presented with the Great Chalice\nof Skraeling Althing to recognize both his own persona development work, and\nthe work he has done to help others through activities like the Level Up\nweekend.<\/li><li>We presented Their Excellencies Dragon Dormant\nwith an intelligence report about some cross border security concerns.<\/li><li>We presented THL Giovanni Orseolo with a Black\nHare for his skills in dance and knitting.<\/li><li>We presented Sir Shahid with a Hare Valiant in\nrecognition of both his skill and support of the armed might of Skrael.<\/li><li>We launched a brand new baronial award to\ncelebrate the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Feast of the Hare, the Hare\nArgent. And we presented the premier member of this new order, representing\nlong standing, diverse and ongoing contributions to the Barony &#8211; Kniaginia\nXristina<\/li><li>Just as court was closing, we were presented\nwith new evidence as to the source of our cross-border irritants between Skrael\nand IDD. Unfortunately, between court and feast, someone absconded with the\nevidence. An investigation will be launched.<br>\n<br>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Feast of the Hare is the Barony\u2019s largest and most\nlongstanding event, and it was such a pleasure to see so many people who have\nbeen here since the early days of the event, at the same time as we had 16\nnewcomers. That is exactly what the SCA is all about.<br>\n<br>\nWe hope you all enjoyed yourselves, and we look forward to Practicum in the new\nyear, where we can all dig in and learn new things.<br>\n<br>\nIn service to the people of Skraeling Althing,<br>\n<br>\nAvelyn &amp; Dafydd<br>\nBaroness and Baron of Skraeling Althing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good People of Skraeling Althing, Have you all recovered yet from an epic 40th Feast of the Hare? It was quite the day. We would like to thank Their Majesties and Highnesses for helping the barony celebrate such an important anniversary. And of course, we always welcome our cousins from l\u2019Ile du Dragon Dormant, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skraelingalthing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}