<div>Hearty thanks from Ingeborg to the residents of Stierbach's Sapphire Joust encampment.</div>
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<div>Thank-you Ingeborg for your kind words from your neighbors in Stierbach.</div>
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<div>Iustinos Ancyrenos patrikios and seneschal to the barony of Stierbach<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ingeborg i Trondheim</b> <<a href="mailto:ingeborg_sca@yahoo.com">
ingeborg_sca@yahoo.com</a>><br>Date: May 28, 2007 8:58 PM<br>Subject: A Most Hearty VIVAT to the Barony of Stierbach!<br>To: <a href="mailto:baron@stierbach.org">baron@stierbach.org</a>, <a href="mailto:baroness2@stierbach.org">
baroness2@stierbach.org</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:KristiWhyKelly@aol.com">KristiWhyKelly@aol.com</a>, <a href="mailto:seneschal@stierbach.org">seneschal@stierbach.org</a>, Rowan the other Ro <<a href="mailto:denise@shado.info">
denise@shado.info</a>><br><br> </span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear Baron Colum, Baroness Briana, and Stierbachian Nobles All,</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I thank you for a splendid weekend at Sapphire Joust VIII! </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I thoroughly enjoyed my interesting holiday and thoroughly respect you and the members of your Barony for the hard work it took-- that you all made look easy--to pull off this 30-plus people encampment amongst the 300-plus campers.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I sampled some of the A&S classes; I taught 3 SCA folks how to do Viking wire weaving when they asked what I was doing; I watched the heavys and the fencers and the archers. I goggled at our classy queen and orating king who so very much added an allure to the event; I served as a part-time retainer for Princess Rowan; through great good luck, I "roomed and boarded" with your Barony of Stierbach -- a most enjoyable "family" of SCA members who were most kind and welcoming to this stranger they invited in; I attended the delicious feast on the second seating and marveled that the cooks and helpers made it all work out in 55 minutes; and I shopped the merchants both Saturday and Sunday--bought LOTS of great items--the kind of authentic, hand-crafted beautiful objects only found at SCA events, to wit:
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">* U-shaped, hand-crafted hairpin from The Crafty Celt,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">* Ghawazee coat form the Sultry something to go with my Eastern garb,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">* Mammoth ivory of Siberia from the blacksmith (to be carved into needles, hairpin, and purse toggles), and, most useful,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">* a pair of handmade white linen hose [that fits!].</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Congratulations for creating a camp and leading a crew of kind-hearted, hard-working, SCA over-achievers! <span> </span>My most especial thanks to Lady Grace who "let me in" and helped me to fit in; and Lord Sean, who helped me set up my tent as I could not have done without his help; young, hot, and tired but game Lord Michael who helped me fold my tent for breakdown this morning, Lady Esperanza, Mistress Ceridwen, the unmeloncholy Welsh lady; Lord Richard, Tiny Daniel and tinier Madeline who brightened every eye by being themselves; Lady Suenneva; Lord Eneque (my genteel and debonair escort, who got the ball rolling to include me in your company); Lady Willow, Lord Allen, Lord Bubba and Lord Ringer, Lord Ranaulf and his Lady; Lord Phillip who fixed my Chinese umbrella—so needed to protect from that heat and sun, his Lady, and Happy Baby, and all the rest whose names I mangled so consistently—my most sincere thank you.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If the Lord wills, I will come back next year to Sapphire Joust and, perhaps, there will be room for my tent in Stierbach? </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Please feel free to call on me to assist your Barony and your selves if I can provide assistance or succor at any future event.<span> </span>It would be my pleasure.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Yours in Service,</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Lady Ingeborg i Trondheim</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Keeper of the Key to the Hall </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The Barony of Bright Hills</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Coral Branch</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Holder of the Spirit Cup of Bright Hills 2007</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MDA: Lorraine Rovig, Baltimore: 410-247-2747</span></p>
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