From Your Officers

SKALD January 2005

Officers for the Incipient Canton of Skarrgard Upcoming Events

Seneschal Populace Meeting Lord Halldor Grimmson First Sunday of every month (Bobby Harlow) 6:30 pm 14702 Patterson Rd King Buffet, Shawnee, Ok Shawnee, OK 74801 Next Meeting: February 5th Home- 405-386-2653 [email protected] Combined Fighter Practice Every Non-Populace Sunday Deputy Seneschal 3:00pm-5:00pm Barrett Morgan Woodland Park, Shawnee, OK (Bo Hendricks) 2344 W Park Pl Sewing Night OKC, OK 73107 Fourth Wednesday of every month Home-405-601-5545 6:00pm- 10:00pm [email protected] Hosted by Fayidah binte Asad umm Jawhar Next Sewing Night: January 26th Knight’s Marshal Herre Jolgeirr hinn Bjallaskeifa af Skarrgard Golden Corral Fundraiser (Matt Gelm) Tuesday, January 11th Route 2 Box 216-7 5:30-8:30 pm Stroud, OK 74079 Golden Corral, Shawnee OK Home-405-567-3053 [email protected] Skarrgard’s First Annual Persona Workshop Saturday, January 29th Herald Halldor’s Tavern Sayyidah Fayidah binte Asad umm Jawhar Shawnee, OK, Call 405-386-2653 for directions (Eveylyn Harlow) 14702 Patterson Rd The Axeman Cometh…Again Shawnee, OK 74801 February 25th – 27th Home- 405-386-2653 Pink, Oklahoma [email protected] Archery Practice Treasurer Coming soon… Lady Maeve of Namron (Christine Melton) 1221 Rose Dr From Your Officers…. Shawnee, OK 74804 Home-405-214-5678 Seneschal Greetings All, [email protected] Not much new going on. We have our persona workshop on the 29th of January at my house. Please Chronicler (acting) plan on attending. We also have The Axeman Kaitlynn Morgan Cometh...Again!!! coming up the last weekend of (Kathy Hendricks) February. Please do all that you can to help out. We 2344 W Park Pl always need help and can never have too much. OKC, OK 73107 We are also having a fundraiser night at Home-405-601-5545 Golden Corral in Shawnee on the 11th of December [email protected] from 5:30-8:30pm.We will be in garb and serving tables for tips to raise money for the canton. We will also be having a demo/tourney in both chivalric and Minister of Arts and Sciences (acting) rapier fighting with the winners receiving a dinner for Lord Hatur Earn two for both the rapier and chivalric champion. And this (Terry Wasson) is a great way to get out into the community and let Route 2 Box 216-7 them know who we are, and that we do, in fact, exist. Stroud, OK 74079 We will only be serving drinks and keeping them full. Home-405-567-3053 The area the management at Golden Corral is allowing [email protected] us to use will seat 90 people. So please help if you can. With that many seats, the gods know we will need it. We had a site tokens work day last month as well. In total, we will have around 250 to hand out at gate. Thanks to Hatur, Arnulf, Jolgeirr, and Abe for all the hard work. Thanks to Ara and the ladies for making

***http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SkarrgardVirtualSkald * http://northern.ansteorra.org/skarrgard/*** sure we were fed and coffeed up. There will more than I am your new A&S officer. Please feel free to likely be another site token work shop as time permits. ask me about any craft you’d like to learn, teach, or be There will be little or no set-up required for the a part of. Our current project is making site tokens for Persona Workshop, however, there will be a lot of set Axeman. We already have a large percentage of them up required for The Axeman Cometh...Again!!!. I also completed. Thank you to those who helped. need volunteers with pick-ups or trailers to help me This month, at the upcoming Persona Workshop, there haul the list field tables, 4 portable garages, and one will be a blacksmithing class from 9:00am- 5:00pm to baronial pavilion to the site for the Axeman. Also anyone that has rugs (big ones) that we can borrow for give everyone the opportunity to learn about this skill. the hafla on Saturday night, it would be much Thank You appreciated. We will need table cloths as well. ~Lord Hatur Earn All the activities for the Axeman remain the same save one. I have spoken to Volkmar, our premier Hospitaler archery champion, and he has a great idea for the Greetings unto the populace of Skarrgard; archery. He will be running a timed round shooting at a This will be my last report as Hospitaler. 3d stuffed straw knight for our next championship. Applications for my office are currently being accepted. That's all I can think of, any omissions or Also, we still need someone to autocrat for Woodland forgetfulness is totally my senile old brain's fault, not Forest Festival 2005. I will still be your contact for all mine. the information I have collected from last year’s demo. In service to the dream, Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your Hospitaler and I wish my successor the best of luck. Lord Halldor the Mad - Salerna della Rena of Wolfstar Jester Chronicler Herald Greetings and Salutations; Lord Gaelon P Garret received a Sable Comet at We have many events quickly approaching. Weisenfeur Yule in December. This is an award The canton will be having a fundraiser on the 11th, the recognizing outstanding service to a Canton. It is a Persona Workshop on the 29th, along with regular kingdom level award. sewing nights, pop meetings, and fighter practices. Sewing night will be held on the 26th of Jan. Axeman may seem ages away, but it will be here This is the last sewing night that will be held before our before you’re ready. I know we have many newcomers event in February, weather permitting. If there is any out there (myself included) and these upcoming events type of winter garb that you would like help with before will be a great opportunity to get more involved. the event, that evening would be the time to make your Thank you all for your contributions to THE needs known. SKALD. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas At the persona workshop I will be speaking for articles, please contact me. All submissions for THE during the morning session on what criteria there is for SKALD are due by the last Sunday of the preceding having your name and device passed. In the afternoon month. Thank you. I will be elaborating on Middle Eastern customs. If you In Service, have questions on either of these topics or would like ~Kaitlynn Morgan more information on either of these topics please feel free to contact me. Currently it appears that we have the event In Other News… mostly in hand. Of course that is normally when the bear trap snaps and all Hades breaks loose. At this On Being Seneschal… time I ask that you keep in mind that I will need all the To put it simply, the Seneschal serves as a sort of spare hands I can get a hold of at the event. We are “general manager” in the group. He or she is there to hoping to be able to do preliminary setup on the promote harmony in the group and coordinate Thursday before the event so that we will have a everyone into working together. The Seneschal is also majority of the pavilions that need to go up at the site the “manager” for the officers and responsible for their Friday. I would like to have as many of the pavilions actions. According to Ansteorra’s official Seneschal raised by mid-afternoon Friday so that we appear ready Handbook, a Seneschal should have the following for the early arrivers. Lord Halldor and I will be on site principle: “Work is an activity performed by non- all day Friday with preparations. We are going to be seneschals.” Not to say that a Seneschal’s job is easy, setting a day for finishing the site tokens that were but a Seneschal should be focused on keeping the started at Lord Hatur's in December. For all that were group together, not on duties like autocrating events, able to come out, Thank you. Any and all that will be cooking, or digging trenches. As with all offices, there able to help with this will be greatly appreciated. are some administrative duties as well. A local Yours in Service, Seneschal has to report to his or her regional officer -Sayyidah Fayidah binte Asad umm Jawhar once a month. So what kind of a person would make a good Seneschal? Well, anyone who “plays well with Knight’s Marshal others.” He or she should have a natural gift for talking Unto the glorious fighters of Skarrgard; to and uniting people. He or she should also have a This last month we were well represented at natural ability as a leader and moderator. The Namron’s regional combined practice. I believe I Seneschal has to act as a “go between”, a counted about 6 or 7 of us there. Thank you to all who peacemaker, and the scapegoat for the group. attended. We will still be altering back and forth with the Office Openings different fighting techniques at upcoming practices. We The following offices are now accepting applications: also have many tournaments quickly approaching. This Hospitaler break would be a great opportunity to get your armor Minister of Children and weapons inspected. Polices are constantly Chirurgeon changing, so it is a good idea to get inspected at least Archery Marshall once a year. Deputy Herald Herre Jolgeirr hinn Bjallaskeifa af Skarrgard Deputy Knight’s Marshal Deputy Chronicler Minister Arts & Sciences Populace of Skarrgard; Disclaimer and Copyright Statement:

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