Responded offlist with bunches of resources. Looking forward to chatting at
Coronation this weekend. :)

-Eowyth


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Jerry Harder <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>  Eowyth,
> I have been reading some of the other kingdoms rules for k-9 guilds.  Can
> you forward/put me in touch or whatever what rules have been established
> for the horse folk.  I am curious what is required and or suggested on both
> corporate and kingdom levels.  I will be at 12th night and coronation.
> Maybe we can chat?
>
> Master Gerald Goodwine
>
> On 1/2/2014 2:17 PM, Eowyth þa Siðend wrote:
>
>  Pageantry is period and most of the "games" that we do are in fact
> pulled from period sources (reeds, rings, quintain, heads), not to mention
> actual jousting & mounted combat. Those fall under the "weapons"
> activities, I suppose.
>
> Also - racing - totally happened and may (or may not) have involved actual
> weapons. ;-)
>
>  Now - the way that we run 'challenges', no, I don't believe that would
> have been in practice back then. But the elements that make them up
> certainly were. It was about practicing the skills needed & training the
> horses for what they needed to do. And who is to say that they didn't
> combine running at a target with a lance, to be followed swiftly with
> cutting the head off a dummy? Seems practical to me.
>
>  In Service,
>
>  Eowyth
>
>