Society for Creative Anachronism

The Quid Novi

(QD)

Newsletter for the

Barony of Caer Mear

Volume 37, Issue 11 November 2015 `

Autumn Colours

Nights draw in, as summer ends,

and natures bounty upon the land.

Acorn and nut, seed and berry,

Autumn's gift are all around.

Days grow cold, as Autumn calls,

and creation give its final show.

Dazzling reds, and brilliant yellows,

Autumn paints this once green land.

A seasonal cycle, draws to a close,

and prepares for death that is at hand.

Autumn and Winter, Spring and Summer,

The seasons show their changing face.

©2006 Ryewolf

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From the Seneschal.

Greetings to the great people of Caer Mear!

It has been a good year so far. We’ve had some ups and downs but we

have come through. Ruby Joust was a major success thanks to its

wonderful autocrat, Lady Arnora. From horses to youth fighting, it

was a great time.

Yarnvid hosted an excellent Fiber, Foliage, and Forging! Special

thanks to Lady Kat for putting on a great event of Arts and Sciences.

The blacksmiths were particularly popular by everyone. The lunch

provided by Lord Henricus and his kitchen staff was a welcome treat

in cool wet weather.

We will end the year with our annual family gathering, Yule. This

year’s event will be on Saturday December 12th. Setup is scheduled to

begin at 2:00 PM. Look for more details to come in the next few weeks

and start planning those recipes!

Thanks to Baroness Yenyega Velasconi de Santurce and Lady Magda-

lena la Sanguigni, Unevent will be in Petersburg this year on Decem-

ber 5th. They will be asking for help with the event soon, so please

assist them as you can.

Take care everyone, as we enter the holiday season.

Yours in Service

Lord Hjörr

Senschal, Caer Mear

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Atlantian calendar of events

October 2015

31 All Hallows XXXV Berley Court Courtland, VA

31 Harvest Border Wars Bright Hills Westminister, MD

November 2015

6-8 Atlantian Fall Crown Tourney Hidden Mountain Bennettesville, SC

13-15 Known World Academy of the Rapier / Known World Costuming Symposium

Middle

14 Buckston Birthday Bash Buckston-on-Eno Hillsborough, NC

14 Cathanar Rapier Colegium Cathanar Morehead City, NC

20-22 Fabric, Fiber, Fighting, Fenc-ing, etc (FFF)

Aethelmearc

21 In A Phoenix Eye Sacred Stone Winston Salem, NC

21 Holiday Faire (Q) Stierbach Manassas, VA

21 Jester's Tourney Misty Marsh by the Sea

Florence, SC

DECEMBER 2015

5 Unevent Atlantia Petersburg, VA

13-13 Yule Toy Tourney 2015 Nottinghill Coill Pickens, SC

12 Caer Mear Yule Caer Mear Richmond, VA

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Seeking Recommendations - Awards Offered

I know that if you look around you can find other articles on this subject, but I'm hoping one more will not hurt. What I'm talking about is that won-derful feeling of pointing out the great work of someone you know and seeing them rewarded for it.

If they are doing such a great job then why would they need a recommendation?

Believe it or not, neither the King nor the Queen (nor your local Baron/ess, for that matter) are exactly all knowing and they rely on each and every

one of us to help them out by directing their attention at their noteworthy subjects. Let's start with some details on the process.

The first thing to remember is that anyone can recommend a gentle for any award. You don't have to have received that award yourself, there is no minimum requirement of rank or precedence. Merely making the effort of putting pen to paper (or reaching for that keyboard) is enough to put you

in a special and all too rare category. Send any recommendations for Baronial awards to that person's Baron/ess. Kingdom level award recom-

mendations get sent to Thier Majesties, of course. Of course, you can now use the wonderful online sytem to submit your recommendations. This lets you go back and update them at a later date as well. You can find this at http://award.atlantia.sca.org/

Let's get into some more specifics.

Writing that first recommendation can be the hard part. After that, it's much easier and just think of how you'll feel being in court when that award

is given, knowing that you were part of the process.

Master Áedán Aylwyn

1. These points apply to both Baronial and Kingdom level awards. If you're shy about sending something to the King and Queen, your

seneschal or Baron/ess are usually more than happy to act as a go-between for you.

2. Put it in writing. Their Majesties have a million details to remem-ber, please don't give them one more. For those of you in the elec-

tronic world, email is often perfectly acceptable and now there is also an online recommendation submittal site available.

3. Make it clear who the person is being recommended. Try to at least include mundane and SCA names as well as their home group.

4. If recommending for a polling order, be sure to send a copy to the principle of that order (the online system does this for you). Their

information can be found in the Acorn or online at http://acorn.atlantia.sca.org/orders.php.

5. Be as specific as you can. Saying "Joe's autocratted 3 events in the past 2 years" or "Jill is always in the kitchen helping with clean-

up after local events" is great. "Bill works really hard and is a great

fighter" is not so helpful.

6. You don't have to recommend someone for a specific award. Pointing out their fighting skill, artistic accomplishments and

teachings, great amount of service or extreme courtesy can suffice.

7. The King's Award of Excellence and the Undine are personal awards from the King and Queen respectively. It would be presumptu-

ous to recommend specifically for these awards although a general pointing out of someone's work just might earn them one of these

accolades.

8. Be willing to sign your name to it and include contact information

for yourself. Just like complaints, praise tends to be ignored if it is anonymous.

9. It does not hurt to be sure but don't worry too much about knowing if they already have that award. The Crown will do their best to con-

firm this information. The worst case would be for a gentle to receive

the award a second time, not too disastrous.

10. Be courteous in your writing. Remember that you are trying to point out someone's achievements and not filling out a mail order for a

birthday present. Making the recommendation doesn't ensure that the

award will be given but it does go a long ways in that direction.

11. This is a medieval reenactment society but make your recommen-

dations in reasonably modern English and a readable handwriting or font. If it can't be understood, it can't be acted upon.

12. Anyone can make award recommendations. This bears repeating.

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Inga’s Praise Poem

Flame-crowned child of Freya, Long sowing pearls for Odin.

You foster Frigg’s bounty, Forging sharp-edged sword-trees While taming sea-steeds’ seeds

To ring-bearers service. May bold shield-bearers paint

Your name ever in gold. English translation of kennings: Redhaired beautiful woman, Long teaching wisdom. You develop children and home, Making smart future warriors While turning wood into Useful household items for women. May bold warriors ever remember you well. Praise poems were written by women for women in the Norse period. My persona is 11th c Irish Viking and Baroness Ingo in Fostra, the subject of this poem, is a 9th c Lady of Norse background in what is now England. This poem references common attributes (affirmed in sagas) of Norse deities – Freya’s beauty, Odin’s wisdom, Frigg’s domesticity. The kennings are a poetry technique used in Norse culture, particularly poetry, to fit com-plex images to their verse style & rhyming notes. This poem’s kennings are directly based on commonly used kennings from popular sagas & poems such as those documented in Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative (1991) by R.G. Poole. Bar-oness Inga is a teacher and a “foster mother” in period and real life. She also does wood-work, illumination, hence those references to her activities. Similar personalization is ob-served in praise poems etched in memorial stones of women in Norse areas, as document-ed & translated in Women in the Viking Age (1991) by Judith Jesch. I hope you have enjoyed my gift to my dear friend. Someday I will pay a skald to speak it for you aloud. (Norse women only performed verse at home, among family.) Sláinte! Lady Jeane Kilmeny (mka: Dominca Campbell)

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Meeting Start 7:13pm

Officer Reports

From their Excellencies: Progress: Marinus Baronial Birthday & Investiture

Items requested for gift basket

: His Excellency will be at WoW for a day

Bids for Ruby Joust V are due before the November business meeting

Congratulations to Lady Arnora for being awarded The Herring for her work as event

steward for Ruby Joust IV.

Seneschal: Quarterly report is ready to file

There is a possibility that we will have a warranted Youth Marshal after WoW, Stay Tuned!

Exchequer: Reconciled balance: $13,653.45

Two outstanding $5 checks for MOL

Regional exchequer to email Kingdom MOL

Chatelaine: Baroness Aine ruadh inghean Neill has officially stepped up and has started welcoming our

newcomers at Tuesday night practice!

Communications: Please let Lady Arnora know if there are any discrepancies on the website or if you have

any articles you would like published in the QD. I would like to revive the “recipe corner” if

anyone has any period nibbles they would like to share.

Third quarter report filed by Lady Gytha.

Knights Marshal: No injuries to report. Waivers are being signed, as needed, at Tuesday night practice.

Herald: Absent but there have been sightings of him bent over his books furiously working for the

populace on their heraldry.

MOAS: We currently have classes scheduled up to October 27th. Please reach out to Lord Ziyad if

you have ideas.

Third quarter report ready to file.

Quartermaster & MOL’s (prospective) were absent.

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Group reports

Yarnvid: “Still kicking”

Fiber & Foliage has been spiked for 2016

Yarnvid has a very large space for their Thursday meetings with ample space for classes or

social meetings. After the scheduled meeting we all go to Angelo’s Italian Restaurant for

anything from a drink to a snack or a full meal. So even if Tuesday night is cancelled, you

can still get your SCA fix on Thursday night!

River’s Point: A request as been forwarded to the BOD for dissolution.

Caer Gelynniog: Absent

Events:

Yule - December 12.

Ideas so far are the “Lord & Lady of Misrule” and “Krampus”

Competition - Period Yuletide food

Documentation is encouraged

Ingredient list (in modern English) is required

Possible 1 winner for Adult and 1 for child

Unevent - December 5th in Petersburg

Demo: Henricus is gathering more information.

Old Business:

BIDS ARE DUE FOR RUBY JOUST V BY THE NOVEMBER BUSI-

NESS MEETING. If you have any questions about running

this, our largest event, please see any past autocrat.

Mistress Aelfwynn presented a detailed quote for new Baronial

loaner archery gear. This was voted on and approved to be

brought before the financial committee on the next Tuesday night gathering.

Lady Arnora presented a detailed quote for a new Baronial day shade to be brought be-

fore the financial committee on the next Tuesday night gathering.

New Business: Lady Fiorlief proposed a “Container Party” (like that ‘Tupper’ stuff) to be held on a Tuesday

night with no A&S class. 10% proceeds will go to the Barony. She will secure catalogs.

Meeting end 8:20 pm

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Regnum

Baronage Baron Wolfgang Moennich von Luppin Baroness Iseulte of the Red Cliffs Moe & Kitty Moyer baron AT caermear.atlantia.sca.com baroness AT caermear.atlantia.sca.com

Seneschal Hjörr Guðmundson Seth Somervill cmsenescal AT gmail.com

Exchequer Drynnith Jenny Luznicky exchequer AT caermear.atlantia.sca.org Quartermaster Melisent la Ruse Kim Moore Quartermaster AT caemear.atlantia.sca.org

Chatelaine Baroness Aine Tracy Janicki Chatelaine AT caermear.atlantia.sca.org Herald Éoin Mac Eadbháird Steven Schell Herald AT caermear.atlantia.sca.org

Communications Officer Webminister & Chronicler Arnóra in Rauda Beth deTraville lady.arnora.in.rauda AT gmail.com

Minister of Arts & Science Ziyad al'-Atar MoAS AT caermear.atlantia.sca.org

Knight Marshal Patrick of Kells

Minister of the List (acting) Bojzena Z Osturna (804) 569-1881 Not calls after 9pm please

Seneschal Master Thomas Longshanks Tom McDonald (804) 523-0184 YarnvidSeneschal AT yahoo.com

Exchequer Lady Anna of Calais Brenda Pomfrey

Minister of Arts & Science Kateryne Ferneley Megan Shogren brockenspectre AT yahoo.com

Knight Marshal Lady Osa Samantha Baxter sammy390 AT aol.com

On Hiatus

Canton of Caer Gelynniog

College of Yarnvid

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Scheduled Meetings

This is The Caer Mear QD, a publication of the Barony of Caer Mear of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. The Caer Mear QD is available from Beth deTreville, chronicler@caermear.atlantia.sca.org.

Subscriptions are free as all publications are available electronically. This newsletter is not a corporate publication of the Society for Creative

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Barony of Caer Mear

Business Meetings Monthly; 3rd Wednesday at 7:00pm

Fighter Practice / A&S Gathers Weekly; every Tuesday at 7:00pm

Both are held at Battery Park Christian Church, 4201 Brook Road, Richmond VA

College of Yarnvid

Business Meetings Held as needed.

Arts & Science Gathers Weekly; every Thursday at 7:30pm Both are held at Epiphany Church 11000 Smoketree Drive, Richmond VA Archery Practice Weekly; every Sunday from 2:00pm - 4pm Held at Rockwood Park 3401 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield VA

Caer Gelynniog

On Hiatus

We look forward to seeing you!

All submissions are due by the 25th of each month for the next month’s issue.