The following chronicle was published originally in Therie Tales, Vol. V Issue III, Mar. 1999 (AS XXXIII), provided by Anne de Calafia:
Braving the rain and chill, archers made a good showing.
After much encouragement and chiding, I decided to shoot. There were about twenty
entrants, but this was reduced to fifteen by the end.
Art Mac Orm and I slogged through mud and rain and
threats of banishment by our ladies to represent Bestwodeschire. After the tourney,
there was a piece of chain armor to shoot. There were many "gafaws" and shaking of
heads die to our light weight target bows (40 and 45#); howver, scepticism was put
to rest when we sent arrow after arrow through the armor at twenty paces. Woe to
the "Fyrdsman" that wears such a "byrnie".
At the end of the day, the sun came out a little.
Court was held with our king present. Art Mac Orm and I won first and
second place. Special thanks to the darkwood Archery Guild. They hold an
enjoyable and well organized tourney; in spite of the weather. (Author's Note:
Many good ideas were precipitated for our future guild by this tourney. Also,
to have our own initiation for new members.)
To all armorers out there, the test had interesting
results. The chainmail had SCA standard unjoined links [butt end]; not the
old method of riveting or soldering them together. The rings were all forced apart
by even "light" draw weight bows. None of the rings were broken. This seems to
be a good arguement for riveting rings together [Chronicler's Note: Feel free
to rivet and solder if you have as much time as God.]
Sincerely,
Brennus of Aachen
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