New EK Wiki category

[mikekn]

Just a heads up to those of you interested in EK History and/or the EK Wiki. I've started a new category: Artifacts.

The first item up there is a frustrating little piece from the history collection.
http://www.eastkingdom.org/mediawiki/index.php/Chronicles_of_the_East_Kingdom

Take a look and let me know if you know to what the last two paragraphs refer.

Comments

[alphaggek.livejournal.com]

Have you thought to ask El? He's actually on-line these days

[mikekn]

Good idea - he even has a wiki account :)

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I got an account, suppose I should do somehting with it...

[baron-elric.livejournal.com]

The document reads as something I read once before. It may have been in a set of kingdom-level Seneschal's files I'd helped to organize at a summer gathering twenty-nine or thirty years ago. The only other place I can think of where it might have appeared would be Tournaments Illuminated from AS V or VI.

I'm sorry I can't shed more light. The events described took place before I joined the SCA, and more than a year before my first contact with the Kingdom of the East,

[mikekn]

Thanks! I'll take a look through the TIs and see if find anything.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

That's the incident when Koppel, returning from an SCA event/practice on the NYC subway with some other folk, was mugged. He was wearing most of his armor and had his sword. He held 'em off while the ladies dashed up the stairs. Legend has it that's what he was knighted for, but he was already a knight. Koppel was 2nd Principal Herald of the East, before the office was named "Brigantia" by Alfgar, his successor. The story is true, by the way: I've met Koppel a couple of times, and asked him, and he's confirmed it. He lives in Trimaris, in Starhaven (?) or Vaca del Mar I believe (Space Coast or Volusia County).

[mikekn]

Cool! I'd heard that story, but didn't know the names of the people involved, so didn't make the connection.

I'll add that to the notes section.