[MR] Re: authenticity...and the SCA as a joke

[David W. James]

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 04:44  PM, ekoogler1 at comcast.net wrote:
> In fact, you would never see something like the handfasting Phillip 
> and I had at Pennsic...an 8th century druidic ceremony performed by a 
> late-period Frenchman between a 14th century Irish merchant and a 16th 
> century Japanese lady!!!

That doesn't help your cause.  By scholastic standards, any '8th 
century druidic ceremony' is fiction... unless you mean the 8th century 
BC.  It seems that the Romans took a dislike to the Druids, and 
destroyed them in their typical brutal and efficient way.

David/Kwellend-Njal