[MR] ymir photos

[Wayne Remes]

So good of you to ask, and hopefully I can be the first of the hundreds of 
people that will probalby reply to your post.

One of the traditions of most knighthood ceremonies is the "Buffet". This 
was what you saw. It was, I believe, a Norman tradition of the middle ages. 
It is the last blow that a knight will ever have to receive unanswered. It 
is given by either the King, or the Knight the person was squired to. It was 
assumed during the middle ages that part of the training of a squire would 
possibly involve beatings when they did something wrong. After a man was 
knighted no one could then lay a hand on him without he being allowed to 
answer it on the field.  It is also traditionally the moment that the squire 
leaves feality to the knight. Not even the King could lay a hand on a knight 
without the knight being able to demand satisfaction. The King of course 
would send his champion but he could still demand satisfaction.

The Buffet is usually delivered as an open handed slap to the face or as a 
closed fist to the chest. New knights have been known to be knocked out, or 
lost teeth, or knocked back several steps be the force of the blow. The blow 
is never pulled.


Sir Axel of Tavastia

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> Ok question.. Why was the man being elevated to Knighthood slapped in the 
> face??? What is the meaning of that???
> Lady Amye Barrington
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> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, D Munitz <pirate2890 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [MR] ymir photos
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 9:53 PM
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> Good Gentles
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> here are some of the photos I took
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> http://good-times.webshots.com/album/570133835PxGYQq?vhost=good-times
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> Sven
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