Author: Mathurin Kerbusso

In Memoriam – Lady Fiora della Pace

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Her Royal Majesty posted this sad news on the Kingdom of Calontir Facebook page today:

 

Calontir,

As you may have discovered last night, or are just waking up this morning to find out, we have suffered a tragic loss.

We lost one of our own, Fiora della Pace in a senseless accident yesterday. Her birth family and her Calontir family will all be mourning at this joyful light all too quickly snuffed out. While I was not yet blessed enough to call her a close friend, I know we all are feeling the agony at her loss. Her infectious smile, joyous nature, and sweet temperament cannot but leave a hole in our hearts. We will all grieve her loss, but the grieving will hurt us all less if we come together and help each other through this tough time.

I would ask you all to take a few moments to do something wonderful in her memory over the next few days and months. And I would ask you all to drink a toast in her memory. May she live forever in our hearts.

 
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Call for Heralds for Valor XXV

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THL Johann posted this request to the Kingdom of Calontir group on Facebook:

 

Good heralds all,

I will be posting this request in at least one other forum, and I ask that you please spread the word on regional(Baronial) message boards as well.

Valor 35 is coming up in less than 2 weeks, and we will need voice heralds to assist with camp announcements and with list heralding. Saturday, we are slated to have a man-at-arms tournament in the morning, and Sunday will be back-to-back tournaments with Cut & Thrust followed by the traditional Tournament of Valor. All three of these tournaments will require list heralds, and I certainly can’t do them all myself. I will arrange gifts for those heralds who help with the tournaments.

Camp announcements will be done twice daily on Saturday and Sunday. Morning cries will begin prep at 8 AM with the camp heralds beginning their rounds at 8:30. Saturday’s second announcements will be prepped at noon and delivered at 12:30; Sunday’s second announcements will be prepped and delivered once the Tournament of Valor concludes. The notebook where people can write down their announcements will be at the Gate table, prominently displayed.

To encourage camp crier volunteers, for every camp cry you show up at to help, your name will be put into a drawing. Thus, if you participate in all four camp cries, you get four entries into the drawing. Sunday evening in the Great Hall, I will draw one of those names from the hat, and the winner gets a special prize! (For those camp cry volunteers over 21, the prize may involve spiced wine. However, junior camp criers are also welcome, and there will be a non-alcoholic prize arranged in the event that an under-21 herald’s name is drawn, or if the winner is just not a fan of wine.)

Book heralds are more than welcome; HE Marie Chantal will have a consultation table in the air-conditioned Great Hall, and I know she would love to have company and assistance during the event.

I hope to see as many of you as possible this upcoming Labor Day weekend! Ever in service,
Johann
Heraldic organizer for Valor 35

Heraldic Submission Status Updates

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THL Brigida, Saker Herald, posted the following information on the Calontir List:

Greetings one and all! Here’s what’s going on with heraldic submissions in Calontir.

Items currently on the Internel Letter of Intent, with a date of 18 September 2014 to close discussion:

Agamemnon Platolithidae – Resub Device
Alexandria de Bois d’Arc – New Blanket Permission to Conflict & New Blanket Permission to Conflict
Amon Attwood – New Name & New Device
Amon Attwood – New Badge
Brian Robert MacDougall – New Name & New Device
Caitilín inghean Áengusa – New Name
Eadward de Byron – New Name & New Device
Elzebeth von Rostock – New Name
Emme Ziegler – New Badge
Eynon ab Iohannes Mal – New Name & New Device
Felicia Maria Stanborough – New Name & New Device
Gangulfr Hagnason – New Name & New Device
Gwenne Margareta Melinnith – New Name & New Device
Hans Krieger – New Device
Jacqueline Storme – Resub Device
Leopold Heinrich von Rovekar – New Name & New Device
Magnús Þorgrimsson – New Name & New Device
Mairi Rose – New Release of Device
Myghal Stanborough – New Device
Myghal Stanborough – New Badge
Saito Takauji – New Blanket Permission to Conflict & New Blanket Permission to Conflict
Søren atte Raven – New Household Name & New Badge
Tanaka Ujimori – Resub Name
Ulfvaldr Folkmarsson – Resub Device
Valr inn viggladi – New Name
Verctissa Neptis Venutii – Resub Device
Vimundr Sialfason – New Badge
Vincent de Vere – New Badge

Items sent to Laurel on 17 August 2014 External Letter of Intent:

Agamemnon Platolithidae – New Name
Alexander Brightmoore – New Release of Name & New Release of Device
Bechte von Holtzburg – New Name & New Device
Charles von Strausberg – New Name Change
Eynon Langenyth – New Name Change from Holding Name
Johannes Gast – New Name
Karina Gründelhardt – New Name & New Device
Lelia Corsini – New Name & New Device
Lisette la fauconniere d’Amboise – New Name & New Device
Lucia Flecher – New Name & New Device
Luckie Glassbrenner – New Name & New Device
Maggie MacKellar – New Name & New Device
Rab the Piper – New Name & New Device
Rolant de Bourbonne – New Name & New Device
Sakurai no Jirou Takeo – New Release of Name & New Release of Device
Sawbina Fahy – New Device
Ulfvaldr Folkmarsson – New Name

Item that was returned:

Rolant de Bourbonne – New Device
This is returned due to conflict with a device that is already registered.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Ich hilfe,
Brigida, Saker

Cattle Raids, August 23rd

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Her Excellency Seraphina Brugari, Baroness of Mag Mor and Cattle Raids autocrat, has posted the following information. More details can be found on the web site http://magmor.net/events/cattleraids2014.php

Greetings Calontir!  Cattle Raids is almost upon us, and we are excited to host Their Majesties and Their Populace in the Barony of Mag Mor on August 23rd!  Many thrilling and exciting adventures await you, as we embark into the Greco-Persian Wars!  Fighting, archery, equestrian, canine, A&S and children’s activities will fill the day, as well as feasting in the evening.  Camping space is ample, and the weather looks to be glorious. 

Site opens Friday evening at 5, and closes at noon on Sunday.  This is a pet friendly and WET site.

Fighting authorizations and inspections start at 9:30 Saturday morning, and a double elimination “Bring your best” tourney starts at 10:30.

A Fyrd sponsored Man At Arms Tourney will follow the open tourney.  This tourney is hosted by the Iren Fyrd of Calontir, and open to all unranked fighters. 

Open melees will occur as time and energy allow.

Calontir Steel will hold a double elimination tourney.

Archery at Cattle Raids opens at 10 AM Saturday, and will run until 4:30. 

Canine activities are included for the first time this year!  Activities start at 10 AM and run throughout the afternoon.

Several A&S competitions are slated throughout the day:

  • A Pre-print text writing competition
  • Gecko Persian (yes, the lizard) in any medium
  • A Blank border competition
  • An A and S round table show and tell
  • Childrens A&S show and tell

A Bardic competition will be held.  The theme is “Migration”.

Childrens activities begin at 10:00 with a boffer tourney, and will continue throughout the day with a Mini Olympics.

Equestrian activities will begin with a processional at 12:30, followed by a Greco Persian challenge in the arena.  The excitement continues into the evening following feast, with the 60 challenge.

An Inn is available on site from 11:00-1:30.  Greek lunch will be served.

A glorious feast by Mistress Gwyneth Espicier awaits us following court.  The menu can be found on our web page.

Our web page is being updated once again as we speak, and can be found at http://magmor.net/events/cattleraids2014.php

We eagerly anticipate the weekend with good friends and good fun.

 

In Service,

Seraphina Brugari

Baroness of Mag Mor and Cattle Raids autocrat

June 2014 LOAR Results

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Captured from the Calonlist. 

Greetings to All,

The Armorial and Saker website have been updated to reflect the items in the LOAR below.

In Service,

Gunnar Thorisson
Vert Hawk

 

Calontir acceptances

Rodrigo Hernández of Vatavia. Name.
Vatavia is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Sofya la Rus. Name change from Sofya Rous and device change. Gules, an owl rising wings displayed argent.
The submitter’s previous name, Sofya Rous, is released.
This device is not in conflict with the device of Owain of Corn Valley: Gules, a peregrine falcon rising wings displayed Or maintaining in both talons a halberd bendwise sable There is a DC for tincture of the bird and, by precedent, there is a DC for the type of bird:

This does not conflict with Eve Nightstalker Azure, an owl striking Or, beaked and membered argent, orbed sable. I am hereby overturning the precedent declaring that raptors are raptors. Falcons and owls were different charges in period and have differing outlines; therefore we are allowing a CD (although not substantial difference) between them. For a fuller discussion see the cover letter. [Wojciech Bobrowski, Azure crusilly formy argent, a falcon rising wings addorsed maintaining a horseshoe inverted Or., 01/2000 Atlantia-A]

This device is not presumptuous of Nemanji{c’}i, Kings of Serbia Kings of Serbia , Gules, a double-headed eagle crowned argent, or Poland , Gules, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or. In both cases there is a DC between displayed and rising wings displayed, and another DC for the type of bird.
This device does not conflict with the badge of Widsith Devona of Exmoor: Per bend sinister sable and vert, a snowy egret rising wings displayed argent There is a DC for the field and another DC for the type of bird between owl and snowy egret.
Her old device, Gules semy of acorns Or, an owl argent, is retained as a badge.

 

Calontir returns

 Jute vander Brughe. Name change from Royse Meingnes.
The submitter has withdrawn this name.

 

 

Equestrian Challenge for Cattle Raids

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Harvested from the Calontir list:
 
Announcing A Greco-Persian Equestrian Challenge for Cattle Raids!

It is now in your hands to enslave Athens or make her free, and thereby leave behind for all posterity a memorial such as not even Harmodius and Aristogeiton left. Now the Athenians have come to their greatest danger since they first came into being, and, if we surrender, it is clear what we will suffer when handed over to Hippias. But if the city prevails, it will take first place among the Greek cities.

– Herodotus, The Histories

About the Challenge: The theme for Cattle Raids 2014 is the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and the Greek city-states from 499 – 449 BC.  Cavalry were an important part of that conflict.  The elements of this challenge are mostly taken from On the Cavalry Commander, a book by the Greek writer Xenophon (430 – 354 BC).

The Prizes: The prizes for this challenge will be contributed by the entrants.  As Xenophon wrote:

And if you could offer prizes to the regiments for skill in all the feats that the public expects the cavalry to perform at the spectacles, I think this would appeal strongly to the spirit of emulation in every Athenian.  For evidence of this I may refer to the [Greek plays], in which many labours and heavy expenses are the price paid for trifling rewards.

We encourage everyone to heed Xenophon’s words: No trifling rewards!  🙂

The Course: A full description and course diagram will be posted online shortly, but the course includes a procession, heraldry (so start working on your intro now! and pull out those banners!), maneuvering on horseback, javelin throwing, simulated polo, bonus points for riding the course bareback, and more!

TO RESERVE A STALL (or if you have any Questions): Contact the Honorable Lady Eowyth þa Siðend at Eowyth@Gmail.com

The Honorable Lady Katrin Bjarnarsdottir will also be hosting an Evening Tournament! More details and a full schedule to be posted as plans are completed.

http://magmor.net/events/cattleraids2014.php

In Service,

THL Eowyth þa Siðend