[Regia-NA] raising his head again

[J K Siddorn]

All gifts of Auroch horn will be gratefully received.

Don't know about bell founding, but it would be nice to toll the curfew etc.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn,
Regia Anglorum

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----- Original Message -----
From: "rmhowe" <MMagnusM at bellsouth.net>
To: "list-Regia-NA" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] raising his head again


> mik lawson wrote:
> >
> >  From another list,appologies if you spray your breakfast over your pc
> > while picking up your morning mail.
> >
> > http://www.rencentral.com/sept_vol1/Sept2000.shtml
> >
> > I believe that this chap has been brought up before but for those of you
> > who haven't seen this,,,,,,,,,
> > Regards,
> > Mik
>
> When I first saw it my immediate reaction was the Texas Renaissance
> Faire, where things get progressively stranger the farther south
> and west you seem to go. However, I see from the bottom he lives
> in Arizona (where your brains bake about 120 degrees F.).
>
> Our Rennies here in NC don't get anywhere near as strange as Texas
> in the collections of photos I've seen of them on the internet.
> I don't think I've seen anything remotely medieval in what I've seen.
>
> However, we NC SCA took special care to put up banners proclaiming
> that we were local, not itinerant rennies, and that people could
> do medieval and renaissance all year, at our tenth year being in
> the Faire here, which largely began with us and a church.
> 118 signed up for contacts and maybe several hundred took our
> business cards and fliers this year.
> Who made the banners?  Little old me.
> Prior to that many people didn't know we were local.
> So I suppose there is a lesson Regia-NA could learn from
> that - put something up when you show up in public.
> Ours was as simple as I could make it saying who we were,
> stating that we were a local branch, that we did it all year,
> and gave a website address. Regia could use regia.org and
> whatever NA website is local to them.
>
> Why didn't I put up a Regia sign?  Well, so far in this
> large barony of roughly 500 and it is now only a quarter
> or less of the state, down from half, I am the only person
> actually in Regia, and I'm disabled now. When enough others
> finally develop interest we can do that. Meanwhile...
> We have a good thousand+ SCA in NC, a great many of whom are
> close or old friends of ours. Move us, Move our shop (3
> times no less), fix your home after the hurricanes folks.
>
> It's notable he says he teaches history to children.
> I wonder if that is a squishable helmet.
> It is fur after all. Which I suppose is good if he demonstrates
> fighting. :) Darwinism and all.
>
> Love the sorta 1600 AD or later axe in the first photo.
> Would have been chiseled steel then. Eisenhower/Iron Hewer.
> Appropriate for the time. >:)
>
> Still, the one renstore article I've always really liked was
> the one about making al Barran's Bell.
> http://www.rencentral.com/archives/archives.shtml
>
> I know that some Scandinavians did a replica of a bell they
> found in a viking harbour. But it's been a long time since
> I visited that page. As I recall it was winter and they
> had a yurt/ger up in the background. The Mongols survive in
> temperatures down to -50 degrees fahrenheit in those. The
> general temperature difference is only about 15 degrees as
> the air in a yurt changes about twenty times per hour.
> In the winter the felts on them may get up to two inches thick,
> or roughly eight layers.
>
> Will Wychurst have a bell? I know of bellfounders in England.
> Kim no doubt wants an auroch horn.
>
> Magnus
>
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