Fw: [SCA-BMDL] Many thanks for. . .

[Cara and Char]

So this is the true story, as Sir Graedwyn (who is known for his modesty)
chooses to rough it out.  However, one could add some more absolutely true
details.
Ninety strong youths gathered to watch fighters battle at Sarah Heinz House.
After watching for over half an hour, without swinging swords yet, their
eagernes (fervor, really) had reached berzerker levels.  Sir Graedwyn, never
tiring, met the onslaught with his scarred shield of many battles.  After
countless blows, each struck with all the youth's might, the shield's edge
began to splinter and crack.  The enlarging hole in the shield spurred the
youths to attack Sir Graedwyn with even greater fury.  The site of the
battle was littered with splinters of the knight's shield.  His Highness of
Aethelmearc, Sir Malcom, viewing the knight's courageous battle, gathered a
splinter of the shield to save for a reliquary.

In Service,
Ariella
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Nascone" <aandjnascone at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: [SCA-BMDL] Many thanks for. . .


> The shield in question was already on its way out.  But once the kids
> realized they were
> actually demolishing it and no one was going to yell at them, they
redoubled
> their efforts
> and kept calling friends over from other groups to join in the orgy of
> destuction.
> I now know how a pinata feels at a birthday party(but it in not candy that
I
> am full of).
>
> -Graedwyn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike C. Baker / Kihe Blackeagle"
> <kihebard at hotmail.com>
> To: <sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Cc: "Cara and Char" <caram at imap.pitt.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Many thanks for Sarah Heinz House demos
>
>
>     "shield ended up in bits all over the floor"?
>
> Is this a tale of mighty blows, or a simple failure of a well-worn piece
of
> equipment -- or perhaps simply a further part of the demonstration, as to
> how such things are constructed in the Current Middle Ages?
>
> (Itching to turn this into an appropriate tale, even though I reside in
> other lands... [Barony of the Steppes, Ansteorra])
>
> Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe
>
> Mike C. Baker
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