I have revamped the old event page for Crown Tournament that was help last month. The event page now has links to the official report and some of the photos that were taken. These are both located on our Google Drive. If you do not wish to download the official report and want to see the rewards that were given, these are located on the event page.
Matilda
Hast thou paid your taxes?
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Yes! We now have our own YouTube channel!
And I need your help! If you have any videos of events, fighter practices, get togethers or even classes please send them to me and I will get them uploaded.
I would really like to get some good video at our upcoming events, especially Crown Tournament. We can use YouTube to show people what we do and this might aid in recruitment.
Matilda
strokeford.chronicler@gmail.com
Youtube channel
I have made some updates to our site and, hopefully, they are for the better!
Chronicler E-Mail:
I now have an e-mail address! It is Strokeford.Chronicler@gmail.com. By using GMail, this will allow anyone who takes my office to be able to access this site and other Google apps quickly and easily in the future.
Photos:
These are quite, frankly, a pain in the tucas to upload and maintain through this site's page system. They are also hard to scroll through. All photos will now be stored on Google's Photo page! We receive 15GBs of storage on Google with an option to pay for more storage in the future, if we need it or want it.
Can I add photos to the albums? Yes! I have set up the 2 existing albums to allow you to add your own photos. More to albums come! I will be adding the photos to a Google Photo album from The Consort's Tourney soon.
Can I comment on them? Yes! You can and please do! Please leave a note on who is in the photo or what is happening. If it is an A&S photo and you know who made the items and what the item is, please comment!
Documents:
Have a document you want to share? Send me an email at the email I listed above and I will get it uplaoded to Google Docs or Spreadsheet. I believe that I can also add PDF filles to the Google Drive, as well.
Future Plans:
Matilda
Event Chronicle
The Regard of Flight
Sept. 24-25th, 2022 A.D., A.P.D. II
Canton of Stokeford-Upon-Trinity
We set aside a pair of afternoons for what was always intended to be a small backyard event. We did some things we’d never done before, and a few things we’ve done many times, and it was all a wonderful success.
For those who were there, this chronicle is for your memory. For those who were not, this chronicle is for your inspiration, because we didn’t do anything you couldn’t do, and likely better than us.
There was no charge for the event, expenses were covered by donation, the feast was a potluck cookout.
We had set up a small archery range in Dame Alexandra’s back yard, using her outbuilding as a backstop. With Dame Mora as marshal, we ran a simple competition, four rounds of six arrows each, on concentric-circle targets scoring from 1-4 points.
Before the competition started, Sir Alun ap Gwilym asked for everyone’s attention, and, after a short reading about the virtues of chivalry, took mistress Robin de Leycestre as his squire.
Sir Hrolfr Hengestes sun, who had come down from Strathhavin, proved the winner, with 79 points. Runner-up was young mistress Robin de Leycestre, with 62. No one else did better than half of Robin’s score.
The other entrants, in the order they signed in, were:
Sir Galen of Bristol
Sir Daniel McTavish
Sir Ulla Carveson
Dame Cordeilla ver Rosser
Dame Melisende Bernard
Dame Alexandra Notte Clare
Dame Susanne Le Loup Blanc
At the same time, Dame Svea Iojannsdottir, who had come down from Reddebourne, organize and artisans’ faire, in which a dozen artisans submitted entries, and the populace voted on their favorites. The most popular entry was a hand-forged arming sword sent by Sir Johann Wolfgang von Aue. The full list of participants will be published here when I have it from Dame Svea.
After the competitions, there was relaxation and conversation, during which cooking fires were lit, flame was applied to various meats, other foodstuffs were set out, tables and chairs were arranged and decorated in and around Dame Alexandra’s sunken garden, and we dined in good company. A few more arrivals were added to ournumber, bringing the full number of attendees to 20 or so. Dame Friederike serenaded us on her viol
After hours of dining, and revelry, as midnight neared, the revelers dispersed to beds throughout the village.
The next day, after faithful attendance at mass by those who were able, a stalwart few re-convened for Sir Daniel’s class on the techniques of historical combat, after which, four of his six students, Sir Galen, Sir Blaidd, Sir Hrolfr, and Dame Alexandra, marshaled by Sir Daniel, held a tournament.
The final bout of this tournament, between Sir Galen and young Sir Blaidd Peterson (who was up until recently known as Johnathon of Stokeford) was an epic match which could easily have gone either way. The combat was to go the first to score three points on the other. In this, a point is considered as an intentional hit on one’s opponent, and it must have sufficient technique and structure, and it must be delivered while effectively defending oneself (no point if we each score on the other at the same time). When we got to 2 points each on the other, we followed this with two more passes on which we each struck the other simultaneously, and so no point was awarded. Finally, I prevailed, but it clearly could have gone the other way.
Afterwards, Sir Blaidd commiserated with his sister Robin, about how they were both runners-up.
With an unexpected rainstorm threatening, we packed up, and made our way home to leave Dame Alexandra in peace. We later received missives from Sir Hrolfr of his safe arrival home.
We’d held large events in our Canton, this was our first effort at an effectively small event. We think it to have been a major success. May our example be taken up by others.
Sir Galen of Bristol
(Paul Mitchell)
Seneschal for The Canton of Strokeford-Upon-Trinity
Good Morning!
I have just added a photo pages to our site this morning. I encourage you to look through the phots and help me identify some of the individuals in these phots. So far, I just have the pictures from A New Beginning as far as events go. If you have additional pictures from this event or other events, please send them to me! You can private message me through Facebook and I will send you my e-mail address.
I have also added photos for event sites below event pictures on the Photos page. I have done this for future refernce when we plan a new event. Again, if ou have photos of potential event sites, please send them to me with place and pertinet details that may be of use to an event planner.
You can access these photos by clicking the menu "hamburger in the upper left sife of the site or you can access them here.
Matilda
We have our monthly Shire of Solumbria meeting this Wednesday at 7:40 PM CST. Please be there, if you can. The Seneschal, Sir William of Gloucester (Brian Martin), has asked that if you ave anuthingto add to the agenda to please let him know as soon as possible. Zoom information and FB event page links are listed nelow.
The agenda will cover a recap of Harvest Home Celebration, the upcoming Crown Tournament, a report from our Exchequer and other officers, and we will discuss recruiting.
Matilda Spycer
Chronicler for the Canton of Stroke-ford-Upon-Trinity
Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 358 273 3424
Passcode: 5JBUGw
Facebook Event Page:
Greetings! I have updated the "Photos" page, which can be found in the menu bar to the right. I have moved old event site picture...
