[Artemisia] Historical Terms

[Bruce Padget]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 7:10, rcfaevans at comcast.net wrote:

> A perspective from a transplant from the east....
>
> There are a number of terms that differ significantly from Kingdom to 
> Kingdom.  I found that I had to re-learn a bunch of things when I moved 
> from Atlantia to Artemesia.  Some examples:
>
> Eric (is this spelled correctly?)  This term is never used in the 
> East.  The terms are either List or List-Field

As I understand it, back when rocks were soft and dirt was an 
interesting idea, lists in the West were marked by colored caution tape, 
and they were given nicknames based on the tape color - yellow peril, 
white Russian, black death, and Eric the red.  The last name stuck long 
after the tape was gone.

One of my current little crusades is to move Caid away from the term 
"eric," chiefly by example.  In terms of cultural inertia, Artemisia 
corners like a Ferrari, Caid roughly like a supertanker.

So why bother?  I was at an event in Cote du Ciel yerz ago, and a lady 
was teaching a dance I will not name.  She was showing "sharking" 
(called "poaching" in some places), and she said, "'Sharking' is the 
period term for stealing partners.  Right Niccolo?"

I cringed bunches.  But, I had used that term and taught that dance in 
the SCA. Therefore, she was entitled to believe that both the dance and 
the term were period.  Or, as Silverwing's Laws put it:

#80:  "Advice to peers:  Be careful; you may be the only history book 
someone else reads."

Regards,
Niccolo
bapadget at yahoo.com

PS Get acquainted with Silverwing's Laws, at 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2888/laws.html.  # 73 is also 
applicable to this discussion:  "Whatever you find when you first 
encounter the SCA is something you perceive as having always existed, 
even if it was invented a couple of days before."