[MR] New name for Troll - taking a toll

[Jeanette Gugler]

IMAO, just because something is not documentably period is not sufficient reason to quit using it in the SCA.  When you arrive at an event, this is the border between your day to day existence (sometimes called "mundane") and the magic, the Dream, we call SCA.  At this point of change, we have a greeter who asks us to sign in and pay our due, our toll.  This is neither in the modern world nor the medieval.  Well, all-in-all, the job is probably more in the modern world.

And that job is long tedious, and often thankless.  If we want to add a bit of fun to this, by calling the job "Troll" or "The Nia" or whatever, it is GOOD.  If you don't like it, you don't have to use the term.  Try to find a term that 
better signifies this task.  So far, none of the terms appear to be quite appropriate.  And there are other areas that should take precedence in our improving our persona.

Don't take away the joy and whimsy.  It's what keeps us young.  [In the middle ages I'd probably be dead.]

Theodora von Schmetterlingswald
Too often the "responsible person" and not enough one who plays

>Ceara ni Neill wrote:

>> So then where did the name for the little goat-eating monster that lives
>> under the bridge get it's name? I think it's rather appropriate, to bribe
>> the guardian to enter the event...

>Then  "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy at chapelperilous.net>:

>Just because something is an SCA tradition does not make it a good 
>thing, IMHO.  We all know where traditions like carpet armor and freomn 
>canister helms went.  We make efforts to make our clothing and armor 
>closer to period, why not our persona also?  Why use words that we know 
>are incorrect or inappropriate when there are perfectly fine words from 
>period that can be used?