As promised, I’ve come with more history of the Lady Mary Memorial Tournament. The Lady Mary Memorial Tournament is named after Lady Mary Campbell of Inverary, a Lady who was active in the early SCA Barony of Rising Waters. She passed away on October 25th, 1987 and the Barony’s...
Hi everyone, we recognize that it’s been a minute since we’ve been able to host the Lady Mary Memorial Tournament. There are some new folks in our community, and we look forward to witnessing the great labours of chivalry and feats that will be inscribed on the champions’ trophies....
Good Tuesday everyone! I hope that the day found you all well and healthy. I come to you today with the Acceptances from the College of Heralds for the month of March: Crespin Le Fae Tiberius Octavius Brutus Congratulations to you both on your new Devices (and Name)! WASSAIL!...
Warm winter greetings Rising Waters! As your newly(ish) appointed Chatelain during this Pandemic there has been little ability to really engage the Chatelain’s duties, to foster, recruit and retain new members and get involved in the community that our Barony resides in. As this is a new year, I...
A message from your Chronicler / Webminister Bera Oddsdottir Greetings and good cheer to the members of Rising Waters and our friends and family in the Kingdom of Ealdormere and beyond! As we ring in the new year I am also excited to ring in a fairly major update...
Dramatic entertainment declined from its strong classical roots with the rise of Christendom. Before a millenium’s hiatus, the last scripted performance chronicled was AD 467. From that date, secular performance is chiefly recorded in clerical condemnations, issued regularly from AD 701. Par exemplum: c. 1300, the Bishop of Salisbury,...
The days of the knight where have they gone Hast man outgrown honor’s beauteous song Doth darkness now blanken man’s noble right Hath God left us to scramble through the dark night Where is the hero on his shining steed; Where is our saviour when we are in need;...
An interested mundane’s first few meetings/events are the basis on which s/he decides to ‘really get involved’, or to ‘get away from these crazies’. The mundane needs to learn more about the Society without becoming overwhelmed by an extreme influx of data, or turned off by petty politics, fanaticism,...
FOR YOUR INFORMATION May A.S. XIX Armor usually weighed between fifty and fifty-five pounds. Swords were weighted for use with one hand and usually weighed about 4 to 6 pounds. Arrows were carried at the side, not the back. The longbow is a Welsh invention, not an English one....
July/August XIX There has been a lot of talk lately among the populace of awards, titles, and territories, so I thought I would take it upon myself to write on an open discussed topic, Awards of Arms, or A.O.A. Simply, an A.O.A. is a rather nifty piece of paper...