From The Page (July 1970):
3 Mountains Baronial Tournament -- August 15-16: Feasting and fighting Saturday,
more fighting Sunday. Assorted entertainments. The sitesfeatures outhouses, lots of
wood for fires, but no piped water, so bring plenty. Also bring, tents
or pavilions, mosquito repellent, sleeping bags, lots of food, warm cloaks for
night, sun-tan lotion for day, salt pills, etc. Site is perfect for melees,
small wars, etc. Archers welcome too.
Directions: (omitted)
From the History (by Wilhelm):
Held off Johnson Road, near Cornelius Pass, OR. Edwin Bersark was victorious in the Saturday lists and was master of the revels at the evening revel. Lady Nicorlynn of Caer Wydder resigned as seneschal to go south to the Mists with her lord, Frederick of Holland. Grane the Golden (Anthony Ward) succeeded her.
Annotations:
“Other than that, there was also the fact that on Saturday we were
picketed by a bunch of "overall-clad radical feminists". The Portland
underground newspaper of the time had advertised the event for us and
had promised that there would be "fighting, dancing and wenching". Naturally
the "feminists" were upset by the latter word and came out to protest
such sexist activity. They demanded of a large group of men who came
to respond to the commotion at the gate, "Who's in charge here?" The
answer "She's in her pavilion, lying down. Can we help you?" They
argued for a bit until we told them that they had to get dressed in
appropriate garb in order to come in. One of them challenged to strip down
to nothing, as it would be period garb. We said "OK". They didn't, but
went back to Portland to write a nasty letter to the editor. We went
back to reveling.” – Frederick of Holland
“I already covered some of this event. One other thing that happened that weekend was a lesson on how not to make a weapon. I had made a two-handed axe that I wanted to use in the lists against Edwin. First things first, we'll test it. OK, no problem. Edwin set his helm on the ground and let me take an over hand swing at it. This produced a dent in Edwin’s helm that any body shop would have loved. That was the end of the two handed axe. It worked out as I used that for slow work (one handed) against a pell for a number of years. Never did need to replace it.” – Jerald of Galloway
“Jerald was there, I was there, Edwin was there.
“But it wasn't Edwin's helmet. It was mine.
I still have it. In addition to putting a dent in 1/8" thick metal
(honest!) the blow broke loose several of the bars in the face grill so
that they had to be re-brazed. It wasn't even that hard a shot.
“ I seem to remember that you made the
blade out of plywood, is my memory correct Jerald?” – Frederick of Holland
Description of this event,
© Copyright 1980 by William R. Keyes (Wilhelm von Schlüssel)
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