Huzzah, the new Alpine Scholar, His Lordship, Seamus O’Caelligh!
The first sets of pix are from the Championship itself, photos of the three entrants, the 2nd set from the awesome displays, then courts, plus a few pictures taken later of scrolls and such, and a few extra pictures from the event. These are only from the A&S end of things, since many of us got to listen to Bardic, but not attend that part of the event.
Pictures are by members of House Capuchin, and (marked) by Gwyn. Some things may yet be added, pictures and captions.
First, the entrants and their displays
His Lordship, Seamus O’Caelligh, the new Alpine Scholar (more pix in “Courts”)
Seamus’s entries were a display of the Theriac/Mithridatum, his class on herbals (taught earlier in the month, and a paper on the Treatments of the Illnesses and Injuries of Henry VIII.
Her Ladyship Rafný Garansdottir (http://manxviking.blogspot.com )
Rafny’s entries were just what you see. A display of the Raven Banner of the Norse, an interactive Norse Meal and a Hedeby bag with other pieces in process.
…and here’s a nice write-up that Marya Kargashina did of Rafny’s Hedeby Bag – https://kargashina.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/rafnys-hedeby-bag/
Countess Berengaria de Montfort of Carcassonne
Berengaria had an interactive demo display of the Xacuti, a paper on the Portuguese Expansion, (Full title – Discovery and Trade of Agricultural Crop Resources Via the Portuguese Estado da India in the 15th & 16th Centuries) and a class precis on Feast Management (class taught earlier in the season).
Those who set up displays
His Lordship Andrew Crowe had originally intended to enter the A&S Championship, but then won Captain of Cats, so withdrew. He still brought his archery equipment for display.
Viscount Tryggr Tyresson also did some kind of a demo with his stonework. I saw some of these in person and they were incredible! Quoting Temperance Trewelove, “The first four stones are modeled off a weather vane found in Heggen, Norway.. The second batch replicates the London Stone. Tryggr painted it with pigment he made from chalk and a tung oil varnish (similar ingredients to period). That painted stone sat outside for most of a year to test the durability.”
Her Ladyship Taran mac Tarl’a brought a number of things and set up a whole display.
Other classes went on during the event, a couple taught by folks from 17 hours away! Still looking for pictures of those….
Court stuff – There were two courts on Saturday. In the first, His Majesty gifted the entrants and Anja with coins and their oath was taken to the Principality. In the 2nd, the official hand-over of the office was done, with Seamus becoming the new Alpine Scholar and Anja a Jewel of the Summits. After that she got surprised with an award of the Lion’s Strength.
Goodies – Aside from things given in Court by his Majesty and Their Highnesses, largesse handed over and an awesome site token, Anja had a stash of goodies to present to the judges (no pix of these), mostly pincushions, whether blackworked or plain, but also one bone needle to a judge who already had been gifted with pincushions.
A write-up of the Jewel of the Summits scroll done by Marya Kargashina – https://kargashina.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/jewel-of-the-summits-scroll/
Other pictures from the event
In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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We had a quiet week with most projects just progressing, rather than getting finished. A lot of what needed to happen was re-set, like getting things put away. Stella came up with a new largesse project that you can see on her head in the pictures below.
THE BOOK OF SIMPLE MEDICINES
portray people gathering them. Examples of such scenes are found in the figure entitled “Aloe”, which does not refer to the aloes that bitter aloes are obtained from but to lignaloes, i.e. wood saturated in agalloch resin, often substituted in that period by aloe resin. The other three depict gold, alum and antimonite being collected (antimonite was used at that time as a desiccative medicine).
This whole week was crazy for Anja and Loren and that means your scribe has no clue what everyone else was doing unless they were at the Championship! That went well and Marcus’s pins were mentioned by His Majesty in court! Anja ended up losing her voice after it was all over, but keeps saying, “Dobby has her sock. I is free!”
“We were finally ready to leave Waldport at 12:50 and it was trying to snow and rain at the same time. The bamboo shop in Florence had a sign that read, “Noah called. He’s picking us up in five minutes.” We stopped at Freddie’s for gas and cough syrup and then rolled on down the coast through increasing snow/rain (Snain? Slain? Row?) It’s a beautiful drive and we watched all the waterbirds in the lakes and bays as we went. There was an interesting light effect where the Coos Bay Bridge is still low to the water where the flat quality of the light made little wavelet look like small brown ducks until they collapsed. Trees and daffodils were both in bloom along the way there. It was low tide and the mudflats were showing as they do in Alsea Bay. We even saw geese and cormorants in the wetlands in the upper part of the bay as the highway curved around and then ran into fairy rain just as we were pulling onto 42. ”
“There were lots more ducks all along and when we got to the flooded grazing lands in Pretty Valley the sun came out and turned it all to silver, making the butts of the dabbling ducks near the highway look like odd rocks until they righted themselves. I wonder why no one is growing rice in that area? I’d think it’d be perfect for that. We saw a bunch of very wide cows, obviously getting close to calving and at one point a pickup full of “marshmallows” picking its way across a semi-swamped area followed by a St. Bernard (or some other large shaggy), whose head was nearly as high as the roof of the pickup. The dog was bouncing in and out of the puddles and having a great time. Not so, the truck. :-)”
“I think I hate online maps… we ended up running around in circles several times trying to find places, one of which was the motel, since we weren’t sure of the name. Marcus was there and I went into transports over the blooming narcissi, daffodils and rudbeckia in the flower beds, also the calling geese out on the flooded lowlands beyond.”
spots, cows with small calves and a gate, standing all along in a flooded spot, no fence, no path, just the gate….”
“We got started and the 3rd entrant showed up about 1/2-way through the first set of presentations grumbling about road construction, but was set up in plenty of time. We managed to get everything done, find all the judges in time (except for once, and had an alternate there…) got all the scoring done and added up and found a winner. Congratulations to Seamus, the new Alpine Scholar. The biggest problem was the folks all around who were not part of the judging who kept talking more and more loudly over the entrants. It made it *really* hard to hear.”
“At that point my spoons ran out. Oi, did they run out! I think they may have run out before and I was just not paying attention. I spent most of the rest of the day limping around trying to find people, thanking them and giving out the goodies, but sitting a lot, gradually getting all my stuff into one place again and waiting. 🙂 Each of the judges got a pincushion and one (who already has two) got a needlecase and a bone needle.”
Sunday Summits BA&S and trip home
Monday morning – “Yesterday started with cleaning up the motel room after packing and then we headed up to the site. We packed up stuff and then sat talking with folks, finally getting a minute or three to connect. As we were sitting the rain turned to snow and started to accumulate on the cars. We looked at each other and said, “Don’t *have* to be at moot. Let’s head out.” …and did, even though we had to track down a few people to get things delivered and picked up (apple wood!) before we went. I got to say goodbye to Arlys, although both of us were soaked by the time I actually closed the car door. I missed Sadb. She must have been in class.”
“We stopped back at the motel, because Tempus had managed to leave his shoes, and discovered that one of the others had left a pillow! So that was a good thing. We got a snack at A&W and headed home. I don’t remember much of the drive. I kept falling asleep and then I would startle awake, comment that I couldn’t keep my eyes open and drift off again. I finally mostly woke up once we were back at the shop, but Loren says that it snowed on us, all the way home, never sticking, but continuing to come down. So, I kept doing the same thing at the shop and then once home I fell into bed and slept hard until 9. Loren got up then, too, and headed upstairs to grab the laundry and get a shower. We both went back to sleep around midnight and woke late this morning. Tired, much? Oof!”
A lot of this week was cleaning up and then talking over new stuff. Anja is hard at work on her A&S Championship stuff, which is being held this next week. The only workshop this week is going to be Sewing Night, because Marcus, Anja, and Loren are going to Summits BA&S as are Anja’s Laurel (Arlys), Sadb and maybe Isabeau! Gogor and Anja came up with the idea of next year’s feast being Slavic Foods and that’s being kicked around. We also talked over what worked and didn’t with this past feast and tried to work out how to do it better next time.
Early Week – It took until Tuesday evening to get last week’s report out. Lots of pictures and the cookbook and stuff like that….. Sadb stayed over Sunday night so she and Anja could get some time to talk projects and how-to’s and what’s-the-next-step things on Monday before she headed home. Loren was doing laundry and dishes and there was the usual pick-up-and-put-away of all the things. That was pretty well finished by Wednesday, though, and he picked up tables and chairs Tuesday evening. Everyone is finally set up with feast gear, so the next pile will be making the “loaner” sets with gameboards along with some feast gear bags for House members.
Sewing Time – …. was Amy and Anja, mostly just talking, 
but a couple of pincushions got stuffed, finished and put by. (…although, other than this one, your scribe doesn’t know which those are, so no pix!)
Since House Capuchin has a monthly potluck we get asked about various dishes that work for this. Listing what we’ve had at the potlucks seems to be a smart idea. Yes, some is not period, some is “maybe”, some is traditional, some is period. Maybe someday we’ll get around to adding those designations….
Alcoholic Drinks 
Breads 
Dairy 
Meats or Main Dish
Vegetables & Sallets 
Merriment and Feasting this week! Other projects were going, but they all took 2nd place to getting set up for our big event of the year. Marcus did a wonderful job with the Roman recipes!
This coming week meetings will be at the usual time. We talked over some projects during the feast that are going to get started, too.
Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
Early Week
Sewing Time – …was just Anja & Loren and then Sabrina in the virtual world. Sabrina’s shop has moved to Newport, so it’s going to be harder to do Sewing, but we’re thinking to try at her place once she’s settled in, since she’ll have more space…. might be a “Hand-sewing” workshop. Anja and Loren made pincushion filling during the workshop time.
Herb Bunch – ….strained and re-bottled the coconut butter ointments, then started the oils for some beeswax and olive oil ointments. We also cleaned and set up chickweed for drying.
Marcus was hard at work in the kitchen when the crew showed up to get the feast hall ready. Sadb had gotten to Loren and Anja’s during the afternoon and she and Jay helped with loading up the stuff into the car.
Feast Day – Menu
out-going feast baskets. We even separated the dirty dishes from clean and dirty laundry from stuff that didn’t need washing! This was a *feast*! 🙂
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