[MR] (no subject)

[Alan MacNeill]

assuming you mean SCA peers...

basically, shortly after the first "organized" SCA tournament, it was
decided to put some awards together...the powers that were then came
up with names, wrote ceremonies (borrowing liberally from Tolkein,
Arthurian legend and any other medeivalloid resource they had handy,
which wasn't as many as we have now), and gave em out.  Those were the
Knights and Laurels, given out at the first 12th night celebration,
back in AS low single digits (the West Kingdom has a site with the
exact history, but I can't get to it right this second).

Pelicans came later, once there was an organized Board of Directors.
They wanted to create an award for service to the Society, so they
created one.  Later, they decided (or had it decided for them,
depending on who you listen to) that that wasn't really the BoD's
place, so they ceded the Order to the Kingdoms.

On 6/24/08, Beau Meredith <beaumeredith at yahoo.com> wrote:
> so where did the first peers come from???????