<div dir="ltr">Hello Debatable Lands! Salve Accolens!<div><br></div><div>After receiving a couple questions, I think there's a need for some clarification here (and thanks to Baroness Constance for providing the key point over on Facebook):</div><div><br></div><div>First, pronunciation: <span style="font-family:inherit;background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px">SAL-vay ACK-oh-lenz</span></div><div><span style="font-family:inherit;background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px">Second (tl;dr for below): Mottoes aren't official in the SCA, and totally super optional to use. Also, mottoes are fun, and our Barony is amazing!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:inherit;background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:inherit;background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px">Longer explanation:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">The SCA has a game side and a business side to it. There's some stuff that's purely business side (policies, money stuff, etc), some stuff that's purely game side (retainers, tokens for new folks, garb, etc), and a lot of stuff that has elements of both (martial practices, Court, social media, etc). Mottoes are purely game side, and won't ever be "official" per se. Using it is entirely optional, as the gentle likes.</span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><br style="display:block;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">For some history, I've been enamored of the idea since one of our lovely former Baronesses, Countess Sir Ariella, when she was on the Baronial throne, brought up their desire in a Business meeting to have a Baronial motto. That didn't pan out, but it was a fun idea. Other Baronies have taglines ("Bob Reef!", "Hael Yeah!"), or a motto/moniker ("The Barony that Rocks", "The Industrious Barony"), and it seems to bring their populace together under their core values. People love using those there, and it always brings a smile to faces, even outside of their populaces. Since "The Best and Most Vibrant Barony in the Knowne World" probably isn't the nicest tag line to actually use (even if it is true <span class="gmail-_5mfr" title="wink emoticon" style="margin:0px 1px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_6qdm" style="background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;color:transparent;display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;font-family:inherit;height:16px;width:16px;font-size:16px;background-image:url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t57/1/16/1f609.png")">;)</span></span> ) we wanted to have something people liked and really shows the world who we are as a Barony.</span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><br style="display:block;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">The Baronial folks who joined us at opening ceremonies at Pennsic this year had a grand time calling out "hello neighbor!" to our Pennsic neighbors as they marched the opening ceremonies field - we'd bonded over mutual mud management! And we thought, you know, that's who we are. Accepting, loving, ready to help and support each other, joyful, open hearts and open minds. People who really, REALLY value each other. I know Mr. Rogers is a modern celebrity, but we are a Pittsburgh Barony, after all, and he embodies that generous, shirt-off-your-back Pittsbugh/BMDL spirit so well. </span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><br style="display:block;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">The Latin? well... we thought the English was a bit too modern, and our Barony also values the medieval research part of things quite highly. [Side note: if the Latin is wrong, please let us know! Quality Latin is a beautiful thing]</span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><br style="display:block;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">I ran the idea past the Baronial members that attended a Business meeting (and I think I recall talking about it at another), and it was very well received, with no objections and engendering some mirth and some great ideas - there's a lot of fun to be had with this!</span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><br style="display:block;margin-top:10px;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">As with anything game side, using it is a personal preference. I'll be using it as a shorthand to celebrate everything that the Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands, as a whole, is: helpful, kind, supportive, welcoming, fun, and loving.</span> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for reading!</div><div>Salve Accolens!</div><div>~Bns. Hilda</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM Stórfréttir Updates <<a href="mailto:admin@debatablelands.org">admin@debatablelands.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There is new Baronial News at the Stórfréttir!<br><br>Salve Accolens! A Motto for the Debatable Lands<br>Posted by: Hilderun Hugelman<br><br>
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On this, the eve of our third Debatable Lands Equestrian Championship (details, and schedule), we'd like to introduce to you our new Baronial motto!
SALVE ACCOLENS!
What does it mean?
HELLO NEIGHBORS!
It is the week of World Kindness Day, embodied by the greatest modern champion of kindness and courtesy, especially toward oneself and their neighbors: Mr. Fred Rogers. The Debatable Lands is his home Barony, and we hope that all our people will strive toward these ideals: kindness, courtesy, generous and open hearts, mindfulness to feelings, and to be helping and loving and welcoming. All these, we feel, are encompassed by "Hello Neighbors" - "Salve Accolens".
We hope to enact these these ideals in word and deed, and hope you all will join us. We are ALL each others' neighbors.
SALVE ACCOLENS!
Please use this new Baronial motto with gusto and verity.
(Also, it's Latin, so you can say it the other way: ACCOLENS SALVE!)
See you at Baronial Equestrian Champs tomorrow!
In Levitate et Caritate, and Cheers,Baron Brandubh and Baroness Hilda
"Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors." -Fred Rogers
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