"The motto of chivalry
is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but
love only one."
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The Barony of Endewearde
Tourney of Love
Saturday, February 16,
2013
9:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Event site is the Union Street Brick Church at 126 Union
Street in Bangor, Maine
GENERAL INFORMATION
The coveted pink baldric of the "Champeen O'
Love" has been in Lord Ané du Vey's possession
for three years! Is there no one who would
challenge his renown and take the baldric for
their own? Let our fencers, fighters, and
artisans once again meet mid-winter to best our
"Champeen"!
Fencing, Rattan, and Arts
and Sciences competitions are the hallmarks of
this tournament. Participants of the tourney may
enter and win one or more categories. However,
the Pink Baldric will be awarded to the gentle
that excels in all three and displays that which
the Lords and Ladies of the Gallery feel
exemplifies a true "Champeen O' Love." The whim
and affections of the Gallery members may very
well weigh heavily on the outcome of the
tournament; after all, this is the Tourney O'
Love.
Held at the historic Brick Church, we offer in
your entrance fee a light dayboard and a hardy
evening repast. Attendees are encouraged to
bring a pot luck item for dessert. Please bring
your feast gear!
Site opens: 9:00 a.m.
Site closes: 10:00 p.m.
Event Location
Union Street
Brick Church
126 Union Street
Bangor, ME 04401
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Please check the Tourney of Love Facebook group for the latest updates at
https://www.facebook.com/events/548812185148814/?fref=ts -
Guests under 18 years old: If you are planning to bring a guest youth under the age of 18 years old please read carefully the policy on the Requirements for Guest Minors below.
http://www.endewearde.eastkingdom.org/Events/GuestMinors2013.htm
You are required to provide documentation for any youth guests and must supervise them throughout their visit. -
Dayboard & Evening Feast: Please don't forget to bring your own feast ware. All food is included in the price of admission. A light but nourishing dayboard with coffee and tea will be available as well as a hearty evening feast.
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Advice for the Evening Feast: Bring a tablecloth and your feast gear (plates, bowls, cups, silverware), and if you have candles, bring those too. There is NOT a facility for washing dishes, so please bring a plastic bag or two for dirty dishes. Gwillim is our hall steward, and will be setting up the seating for the evening meal. You will sign up for your table when you troll in. The back room will need to be kept free for our Chef, Lady Leofwen, and her lovely assistants, so please stay in the larger space.
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You can borrow garb: Gold key garb will be available at gate for those who need loaner clothing for the day.
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Divine Your Future: Lady Anya Krasnoperkin will be doing seed readings at her divination table from 9:30-10:30 AM. It's a fun and interesting activity!
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Children's Area: There will be a small area for children to draw, color, create, and play. Please supervise your children at all times. :)
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Tournaments: The fencing tournament begins PROMPTLY at 12:00 noon. (As in, the first round robin list of 8 will be announced at noon and the tournament will commence immediately after that announcement.) All combatants should be registered at the list table by 11:30 AM.
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Arts & Sciences: A&S entries should be placed on the tables provided as soon as possible. Please sign in your A&S entry so I know who belongs to what beautiful thing! Performance entries need to register with the autocrat (I will have something out for you.) Performance entries will take place between the fencing and fighting portions of the tournament.
Voting tokens will be given to the populace after the performers have performed and prior to the heavy list fighting. Voting will take place during the heavy list tournament. -
The Champeen O'Love title: You can participate in any one, two, or three sections of the tournament (Fencing, Fighting, Arts & Sciences). Only those entering in all three will be candidates for "Champeen O' Love." There are prizes for the winners of Arts & Sciences, Fencing, Fighting, and for the overall winner of the tournament. No one will be leaving with more than one tourney prize.
TOURNEY OF LOVE
SCHEDULE
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9:00 AM --- Doors Open.
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9:30-10:30 AM -- Divination with seeds with Lady Anya Krasnoperkin.
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10:00 AM -- Fighting & Fencing authorizations begin. Please sign in at the Minister of Lists (MOL) table.
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10:30 AM --- Youth Combat Tournament.
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11:00 AM --- MOL table open for tournament registration.
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11:30 AM --- Dayboard opens.
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11:45 AM -- MOL table closes for registration.
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12:00 PM --- Fencing tournaments (likely a round robin format)
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Early Afternoon --- Arts & Sciences Performance entries / Youth activities with Lord Njall Randvesson.
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Mid Afternoon --- Heavy List tournament.
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Late Afternoon --- Clean up / Set up for dinner after the heavy list tournament.
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5:30 pm Evening Repast is served. Dancing, singing and general merriment after.
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10:00 pm Site clean up. As many volunteers as can help are encouraged to stay and put tables and chairs away, clean the spaces and vacuum.
Newcomer tips: There are chairs available on site for your comfort. Please keep a respectful distance between you and the list ropes that mark the combat areas - combatants are permitted to retreat backwards right up to the rope lines as they fight. Photography is permitted but please turn off the flash feature on your camera.
DAYBOARD & EVENING FEAST
Dayboard will be light but nourishing. There will also be tea and coffee available. Please don't forget to bring your own feast ware. All food is included in the price of admission.
DAYBOARD
Lady Anya Krasnoperkin
Delicacies made
available on dayboard may include:
Cheeses and breads
Carrot, celery, cucumber and dips
Hard boiled eggs
Fruits
Cakes or other edibles
Water
Tea
Coffee
EVENING FEAST
A feast made to inspire love
Lady Leofwenn Wytleseie
First course:
A salad to inspire love and fertility:
Arugula, also called rocket seed, has been
documented as an encouragement for love since
the 1st century. Cucumbers fire the hearts of
women, the nutrients in parsley and pine nuts
helps to strengthen the body for love. A
dressing of boiled wine to relax and fortify the
nerves those who intend to love, vinegar to
balance the humors, and honey to sweeten the
favor of the one you love.
Bread to strengthen the body and soul, as bread
is the staff of life.
Second course:
Soppes and potage to warm the
hearts, satisfy the soul, and inspire love. For
those who love the fruit of the earth, meat and
fowl.
The carrot is believed to be friend to man,
helping him to win the heart of the one he
loves.
Turnip, balances the humors and inspires love.
Chickpeas and fava beans, seeds to encourage
fertility
Celery containing the essence of men, to
strengthen and encourage them
Garlic, heat to fire the soul
Onion and spices to fire the heart
Beef to strengthen the body
Fowl to give wings to the heart so that lovers
may find each other
Third course:
To counter the energy expended during the day,
meat shall be served to fortify the body of
those who love.
Fourth course:
Sweets to make pleasant the countenance of the
one you love will be provided by the populace of
the Barony.
The head chefs reserve the right to change the dayboard and feast menus. If you have questions please contact Lady Anya at anya@endewearde.eastkingdom.org and Lady Leofween at leofween@endewearde.eastkingdom.org.
Newcomer tip: Please bring your own feastware and tablecloths (soup bowl, plate, utensils, napkins, tablecloths). Open flame candles are permitted at this site. There is no dish washing facility available so please plan on bringing a plastic bag to carry your feastware home at the end of the event.
NEWCOMERS
If you are new and attending
your first few SCA events
please click here to refer to the collection of
Newcomer Information articles linked from
the Endewearde website.
Please contact our Newcomer coordinator, Lord
Finan, for
assistance in understanding what to bring for
your comfort to an SCA event, what to pack for
dayboard and evening feast, and to make
arrangements to borrow appropriate clothing
(called "garb") for an event.
Newcomer Tip: Write to chatelaine@endewearde.eastkingdom.org and mention that you would like to learn more about attending your first SCA event.
HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY
There are men's and women's bathrooms on the main level which are handicap accessible. The main entrance to the building has a handicap accessible ramp.
Newcomer tip: Please contact Lady Agatha with any questions regarding mobility accessibility to this site. All activities will be held on the same floor.
EVENT FEES
Site : Adults (ages 18 and
up) $17.00
Children (ages 10-17) $13.00
Children (ages 0-9) Free!
SCA members receive a $5.00
discount with proof of membership
Feast: There is no separate feast fee. There
will be an evening meal, which is included in
the site fee.
Make Checks Payable to: SCA-Maine, Inc.
Endewearde
Newcomer tip: If you are
considering bringing guest children to this
event please see the
policies regarding Guest Minors in the
Additional Information section above. There
are two forms you must bring along for each
guest child, one of which requires notarization
by a Notary Public.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Event Steward:
Lady Agatha
Wanderer
MKA Rachel Case
(207) 862-2305 (no calls after 9:00 pm, please)
agatha@endewearde.eastkingdom.org
Send Reservations to:
No event
reservations necessary.
EVENT STAFF
The following are the main contacts overseeing portions of the event:
Event Steward: Lady Agatha
Wanderer
Deputy Event Steward: Lady Sylvia du Vey
All Things Food
Dayboard Chef: Lady Anya Krasnoperkin
Evening Feast Chef: Lady Leofwenn of Wytleseie
Hall Steward: Lord Gwillim Kynith
Gate Staff
Gate Steward: Lord Nero Calamus
Gate Staff: Lady Petra von Mumpf, Lady Sylvia du
Vey, Lord Otto Gottlieb
Site Tokens: Lady Constancia de Vianne
First Aid
Chiurgeon: Lady Petra von Mumpf
List Table:
Minister of Lists Staff: Baroness Margaret
of Rochester and Lady Sara of Stonley
Work Crew
Lord Seamus Na Coille Aosda, Baroness
Margaret of Rochester & everyone else
(Thank you!)
Event webpage
Lady Bryn Millar
Combat Marshals
The Honorable Lord Frasier MacLeod (Rapier
Combat)
Lord Ané du Vey
(Heavy List)
Lord Finan (Youth Combat)
Needed:
Voice Heralds for occasional
announcements and reading of the list pools.
Volunteers for gate shifts and possibly for
kitchen help.
The following have donated prizes for the event
Rapier Combat prize: Syr
Cedric of Thanet
Heavy List Prize: Anna Tarr
Youth Arts & Sciences Prize: Lady Alys Treeby
Adult Arts & Sciences Prize: Lord Gwillim Kynith
DIRECTIONS TO THE EVENT
Event Location
Brick Church
126 Union Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Make your way North or South to Interstate 95,
Exit 184 in Bangor. Head East toward downtown.
The Brick church is on the intersection of Union
Street and Main Street. Some off street parking
is available, but most will need to park along
First Street.
Please follow this link to view images of the Brick Church.
Newcomer tip: There is limited parking in the church lot. Please do not park in the lot across the street. First Street has plenty of parking on both sides of the road but is a one-way street.
QUOTATIONS:
ENVOYS OF THE HEART
"The motto of chivalry is
also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love
only one."
de Balzac, Honoré. Quotes of chivalry and
courtly love. n.d. Accessed 1/22/2012.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Quotes_of_chivalry_and_courtly_love#ixzz1k0D3u5ID
The envoys of the
heart should be
The envoys of the heart should be
The noble deeds of chivalry; -
A daring charge, an escalade,
A knight or banner captive made;
A pass against a host maintained,
A name through trials borne unsustained-
Thus love most eloquently speaks;
This is the homage maiden seeks.
--Giraud Calanson, Translated from
Provencal by John Rutherford.
Yagley, Robert, ed. The Book of Courtly Love:
Medieval Stories and Songs. Page 81. Barnes and
Noble, Inc, 1997.
Graphic Credits
Decorative
squiggle graphic provided for free use by
Microsoft
Endewearde heraldic device and Tourney of Love graphic at the top of this page was designed by Lady Bryn Millar.