[MR] accolade

[iamfillystarcrafter]

Thank you all so much. This was my first knighting and as I am a soon to be MOL (Lord I hate snail mail sometimes!) I believe I may see more of these and it helps that I understand it now. Had I seen this without the crowd I would most likely have tried to stop it but since the crowd was there and nobody reacted negatively to this I saw no reason to react and was simply curious instead.
Lady Amye B.
Remember you are unique! Just like everybody else!  Purpure an apothacary jar argent charged with a frog tergent vert

--- On Wed, 2/18/09, Wayne Remes <wremes at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
From: Wayne Remes <wremes at carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] ymir photos
To: iamfillystarcrafter at yahoo.com, atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 9:10 AM

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

----- Original Message ----- From: "iamfillystarcrafter"
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Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] ymir photos


> Ok question.. Why was the man being elevated to Knighthood slapped in the
face??? What is the meaning of that???
> Lady Amye Barrington
> Remember you are unique! Just like everybody else!  Purpure an apothacary
jar argent charged with a frog tergent vert
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, D Munitz <pirate2890 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: D Munitz <pirate2890 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [MR] ymir photos
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 9:53 PM
> 
> 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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