Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:00:22 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 08:59 PM 4/21/05 -0400, dicconf wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Mike B. wrote:
>
>> "Mark" because no self-respecting patriarchy would name a place after a
>> woman.  Kind of sarcastic in a way. ;-)
>
>"Mark" because that was the Middle Ages term for a border area.

Not from what I heard from those around at the time of formation of the
group, though it would make sense.  I'll find out for sure next time I talk
to Barchan...he was one of the founding members and is now married to my
ex-wife.

>The Vikings were a heck of a lot more cognizant of Women's Rights than any
>of the people around the Mediterranean.

The right to be kidnapped was high among them I guess.  ;-)

Markland isn't all vikings though.  The Jolmsvikings sub-group was (though
they were often mistaken for a motorcycle gang by those who didn't notice
that their "colors" were in Runic...it was probably the black leather
jackets when they weren't in garb), and the Longship Company pretty much
was, and if you go by names, Midgard was too, but there were also the
Screalings who weren't, and neither were the Bocnun and her sisters, and
I'm not sure what the White Company and some of the other sub-groups were
going for.  Individuals had personas that were English, French, Scotish,
etc. too.  Markland was basically a bunch of semi-random peasants from the
period between the end of the Roman Empire and 1066AD, almost exclusively
European, but not entirely.

The SCA tends to go more for nobility from a slightly later period, but
that didn't stop various kingdoms from hiring the Marklanders for Pensic
every year... ;-)

-- Mike B.
--
Migratory lifeform with a tropism for parties.