[MR] Greetings everyone,a newcomer/Spears?

[Gorm of Berra]

Good evening and welcome.

The Queen's Spears is a group of Rapier fighters who have, at the Queen's 
Request, agreed to form a unit of spearmen for the Bridge Battle at 
Pennsic.  It has been formed at previous Pennsics, and is being resurrected 
this year.

The theory being that since spear and rapier are relatively similar in that 
they are primarily all about thrusting and point control, excellence in 
Rapier should translate into excellence with a Spear as well.

Since all (at least the vast majority) of Rapier fighters fight for the 
Queen's Honor upon their field, when she made that request, many of us were 
honored to take up heavier arms and serve Atlantia in this way.  We come 
from all over the Kingdom, so weekly practices and the like are 
difficult.  Most of us are learning at our local practices, or those events 
we can gather at, with intents to muster at selected events through the 
Kingdom to practice and learn as a unit.

Our first muster was at the recent War College, and there will be a few 
others between now and August.  We are not necessarily the Masters of the 
Spear, many of us, in fact, are but mere students, however, whatever any of 
us learn I daresay we would be willing to teach.

I understand also that the Company of St. Aiden will be hosting many Spear 
classes over this spring and summer season, at the request of his 
Highness.  Stay tuned.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In Service,

Gorm of Berra
Scholar, Atlantian Academie d'Espee
Spearman to the Queen's Spears of Atlantia

At 08:21 PM 3/14/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings everyone. Hope all are in good spirits.
>  The Queen's Spears, what is this unit? We've only heard of this unit a 
> little while ago,(which lead me to the Merry Rose) and we were wondering 
> what they do, do they have a routine practice night, etc.  And if we can 
> pick there collective brain.