[SCA-AE] Re: ANNOUNCE: Royal Court Report: Second CourtofChristopher and...

[Duane Wilkey]

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>CourtofChristopher and...
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You and Mord need to go out and have a beer together -
>brothers of that special breed of knight & Laurel (especially Laurels
for
>something
>other than armour!). Well deserved.
>
>Maria A.S.
I really take offense to the above statement.  My Art has nothing to do
with my fighting.  Do I have less of a Laurel because my chosen medium
is metal?  Would it be more valid if I made table wear?  I make armour
because I love to do it, not because I'm a Knight. Properly made armour
of the later centuries won't work for SCA fighting. Should I stop making
it because it would be useless to me as a SCA Knight? 

When I joined this group I set two very separate goals: One to become a
Knight and two to become an armourer. They were very separate paths in
my mind.  One was to study and modern art form ( SCA martial arts) and
the other was to study a very real medieval art form (armouring).

Would you discount a clothing Laurel in such a manner if their specialty
was undergarments that were be used in the arming of a Knight.  I think
not.

Sorry if I sound snippy - but that statement really pushes my buttons.

AcW