[MR] Myrkies

[Craig Levin]

Do{n~}a Violante:

> What's a dominion?

It all begins in the dim, dark days of legend and myth, when the
number of kingdoms was such that one only needed a single hand to
count them, and the Freon can was the helmet of choice...

A bunch of people wanted to found an SCA group at Cornell U., and
they gathered their friends together. They sat down, hit on a
nifty Norse name, and sent off a group name registration. All
looks normal, right? 

Then they wrote their group charter-still normal, right? Wrong.
These folks wanted to recreate the spirit of the Icelandic
republic of the 1000's. So they wrote the charter in Old Norse,
adding in clauses that essentially guaranteed their liberties
from BoD actions, and sent it off to SCA, Inc. HQ.

The BoD, trusting souls that they were, didn't bother to hunt up
a translator. The charter was approved unread, for all practical
purposes. When the Myrkies did something that made the BoD antsy,
the BoD sent them a nasty note.

The Myrkies informed the BoD that it could pound sand, as what
they were doing was covered in their charter. The BoD replied
that that wasn't the case. The Myrkies asked the BoD whether it
had actually read the charter. The BoD huffed and puffed, and
admitted that the charter was simply approved as it was. The
Myrkies then told the BoD to have the charter translated, and
once it was translated, to get back to them.

The BoD did so, got apoplectic, and the Myrkies have since been
free. The BoD now requires all group charters to be written in
modern English.

Pedro
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