Re: SCA History - Black Diamond

[Heather Swann <swannh@psi.com>]

Poster: Heather Swann <swannh@psi.com>

At 09:07 AM 10/27/97 -0500, Sallie Montuori wrote:
>
>Poster: Sallie Montuori <foxdale@wolfstar.com>
>
>> It was after we had our confidence bolstered by that victory that we
>> declared war on a *real* powerhouse:  The Shire of Isenfir!  (But they
stole
>> one of our mountains, honestly!)
>> 
>> Nils, former seneschal of Black Diamond, who is wondering how many
non-Black
>> Diamonders really care about all this BD history that's been on the Merry
>> Rose lately...
>
>Let's see, now -- how did Veleda's song go?  "If you've lost your Virtue,
>don't look in Isenfir..."!

She meant, of course, that we had not stolen it, and if you were looking to
recover it, you needed to find the real thieves!
>
>Powerhouse, hunh -- "A single novice fighter and a dozen dancing girls."
>
>   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
>foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
>             Neither Isenfiri nor Black Diamonder
>
Hey, Throckmorton was a good novice fighter!  And our dancing girls didn't
do that cheap cabaret stuff, either!  Why do you think we kept getting
asked to dance at Ice Axe?  Because we could DANCE.

Miri
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