[SCA-AS] Huzzah/Vivat?

[Jonathan E. Feinstein]

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> [mailto:artssciences-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org] On Behalf 
> Of rmhowe
> Okay, I'll bite again and show my ignorance of early Horde 
> history, despite having read various things and having been 
> given several early Horde song
> tapes.   HAMMs?    I know we have a tradition of the Hamsters and
> Penguins,  but I don't think this has  anything to do with that.

	Sorry, I wasn;t trying to be mysterious. I think it's more early
Middle, than Horde history, although it goes back far enough that these
things blend. The Brotherhood of H.A.M.M.S. (Humbly Arrogant Masters of
Mirthful Song... And yes, I think Yang did coin the name) was a group of the
select songsters of the SCA in the Middle and not too much later in the
East. It included Yang the Nauseating, Azarael the Soul Separator, Hael of
the Broken Masque, Richard of Alsace, and a few others. The only ones I can
think of who are still vaguely active these days are Moonwulf of Rivenstar,
El of the Two Knives and myself. Membership was always a bit fuzzy so there
may be a few more I never knew were members.

 
> You predate me by 8 years in the SCA.  [Either you were born 
> in it or like me are getting really old by comparison to the 
> twenty-something masses.

Getting old by comparison, I fear. I joined when I was 19

> Not possibly a Pennsic baby I suppose? ;)  ] I would have 
> joined in 1969 had I known of a group closer than VA.
> I would have joined in 1975 or 6 had the local tiny bunch not 
> hid their light under a trashcan. 
> I supplied the first public armory in this area.
> Not that much of anything was like it is now.

	It was a fine start, I'm sure.
 
> Sounds like Master  Ioseph of Locksley may be in there somewhere.
> As my wife's totem is the chipmunk obviously we are not in the Penguin
> faction but aligned with the rodents.   I once authored a 
> truly infamous sendup
> of the Penguins, in honor of Master Yehudah of Nuremburg, in 
> this case the head Pelguin.  If it walks like a Duck....

	Sounds like fun!

> Hordenet is something you have to develop a rather thick hide 
> to engage in. ;) 

	So some things never really change <g>.

>I was on it for a few years.  Enough to 
> practice my satire quite a bit.
> I still post to it.  Just don't have time to read all of it.
> There was a tremendous number of postings.

	Not surprising. That represents a lot of people, many of whom are
happily quite verbose (or unhappily, I suppose, if you're on the wrong end
of it <g>) I don't have the time formost of that these days and generally
lurk on most of the lists I'm on...

	Yosef