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The Origin and History of the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Kingdom of the West Table of Contents The Barony of The Isles ............................................................................................276 The Barony of Dreiburgen ...........................................................................................282 The Marches .........................................................................................................287 Atenveldt (Kingdom) ...............................................................................................287 The Barony of Allyshia .............................................................................................293 The Barony (Province) of the Golden Rivers ............................................................................295 The Province of Shasta ..............................................................................................309 Rieslingshire ......................................................................................................312 The College of St. David ............................................................................................318 The Shire of Montalinas/Perilous Visions ...............................................................................320 The Shire of the Great Oak ..........................................................................................321 Defunct Branches ......................................................................................................322 APPENDICES ........................................................................................................323 Officer Lists ......................................................................................................323 Society Officers ...............................................................................................323 Herald’s Roster ...............................................................................................324 Kingdom Officers ..............................................................................................325 Misc. ...........................................................................................................327 Royalty .........................................................................................................328 Kings and Queens of the West Kingdom ............................................................................328 Princes and Princesses of the Principality of An Tir ...................................................................331 Princes and Princesses of the Principality of Caid .....................................................................332 Princes and Princesses of the Principality of Atenveldt ................................................................333 First King and Queen of the Kingdom of Atenveldt ...................................................................333 Timeline .........................................................................................................334 Awards - Created by, Date, and First Recipients .........................................................................337 Ceremony for Twelfth Night, AS II (1968) ..............................................................................340 The Original Articles of Incorporation ..................................................................................350 Record of the Gripe Session ..........................................................................................354 First Proclamation of the Laws of the West .............................................................................362 Songs ...........................................................................................................364 Men of Riesling ...............................................................................................364 A Song of Myles, Knight Marshall of Madrone ......................................................................365 The Caid Rebellion .............................................................................................366 Mongolian Birthday Song .......................................................................................367 From the Halls of Calafia ........................................................................................368 Stronger Than Heros ...........................................................................................369 Song for Brian Dritar an Con .....................................................................................370 The Bellower .................................................................................................371 Baby (Douglas) Longshanks .....................................................................................372 Misc. Questions ...................................................................................................373 “Magic Moments” .................................................................................................389 Where Are They Now? .............................................................................................392 Index ................................................................................................................400 ii
The Origins and History of the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Kingdom of the West Annotated © Copyright 1980 by William R. Keyes (Wilhelm von Schlüssel) The Origins The origins of the SCA go back to the year 1965, when David Thewlis (now Duke Siegfried von Hoflichskeit) and Ken de Maiffe (now Duke Fulk de Wyvern) were studying the medieval orders of chivalry and the art of sword and shield fighting. In February of 1966 they began practicing sword and shield fighting in the backyard of Diana Paxson (now Countess Diana Listmaker), a medieval history major at the University of California at Berkeley. David and Ken had made the swords out of wood and the shields out of plywood, and were trying to teach themselves how to fight and thereby learning how it was really done. They based their actions on the old order of chivalry. Diana was enthralled with the idea and remembered the fabled “Last Tournament”. This was an event which took place in Scotland in 1839. The Earl of Eglinton, a high-minded young nobleman, complete with castle, serfs, and a head full of the novels of Sir Walter Scott, decided to dramatize the values of the Middle Ages, which were Scott’s and his own answer to the problems of the Industrial Revolution, by having a tournament. Costumes were prepared, banners were sewn, and the springs of the London hansom cabs broken by the weight of men in armor being born to practice. In was the social event of the year. The Great Day arrived and the splendid procession processed and the jousting commenced. And then it began to rain ... Do you know what happens to armor in the rain? And banners? And respectable English noblemen without any shelter? That was the end of the Romantic Period in England. (This is taken from Diana Paxson’s fanzine, Patterns, which gave an account of the first tournament of the SCA. [This article is in the Appendices - see page ?]) Diana, David and Ken came up with the idea of holding a new “Last Tournament.” They would invite all of their friends over to Diana’s backyard at 2219 Oregon St., in Berkeley, California for a tournament. Everyone would come in costume and the men could all be knights and fight with wooden swords and shields for the right to crown their lady Queen for the day. Diana was going to graduate in June and this would be a last fling before the end of the quarter and finals. The event was set for May Day, May 1, 1966. It was intended to be a single time event, just for fun. Nobody ever expected it to continue. Comments: A [... a medieval history major at the University of California at Berkeley ...] “Diana, I think, was actually at Mills College, not UCB, though Mills could have come later in her academic career. Ken and Dave were doing their practicing with padded maces (hardwood handles and cloth wrapped heads, as I recall. The shields, however, were out of steel backed with leather. The steel was sufficiently good to shatter an arrow from a 75 lb bow with essentially no penetration.” “Diana was going to be going into the Peace Corp. Part of the genesis of the idea was to be the only one in the Corp who had ever had a tournament in their back yard. Stefan de Lorraine and I knew her through fandom, primarily because of a shared membership in al local SF group, The Elves, Gnomes, and Little Men's Science Fiction, chowder, and marching society. We got the announcement from her and Henrik Olsgaard (later Henrik of Havn) saw it pinned to our bulletin board in our dorm room. He was interested and asked if he could come as well. In the end, Stefan, Henrik, two other guys whose names I can't remember, and I all went, catching a ride with another friend of ours, Felice (later Felice of Mayhem House).” – Steven MacEanruig 1 “Bo of York (Howard Friedlander) was one. Alan Burafato (fencer, SF State) may have been the other one since he did attend at least one event (at Cragmont Park - later).” – Henrik of Havn a “I could remember Bo, though not anything more of his name. I don’t think the other one was Alan, but I can’t remember it clearly. I think his name was something like Don or Dan.” – Steven MacEanruig B [... were trying to teach themselves how to fight ...] “By the time of the first tourney, both Ken and Dave had made themselves very impressive leather and metal heater shields that had all of us agog. Dave’s was later burned in The Fire – though he kept the metal face for years and may have it still. The arms he painted on the shield are the ones he bears today.” – Stefan de Lorraine 1 “16 gage steel with 2 or 3 layers of 1/8" thick leather.” – Henrik of Havn B “As far as I know, Ken still has his shield, and it caused an initial contretemps when the heralds became prominent, as the arms depicted on the shield were those of the actual de Maiffe family, to which, as far as I know, Ken is Connected but not the arms holder. I’ll wait to see if anyone who was there will comment on the origin of the name Fulk de Wyvern (Ken used his own in the initial tourney) before I pass along second-hand gossip on the subject.” – Stefan de Lorraine 1 “I think he changed the charges from the real arms, but the colors and placement are the same as the real arms.” – Henrik of Havn 2 “Did he ever pass along secondhand gossip? The arms on Ken's original shield were in fact the de Maiffe arms. The charges were changed from roses to boars' heads in his "registered" arms and I recall this coming from one of a number of decorative ~ 1 ~
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