[MR] kingdom history fact 12

[Stephen Kiefert]

The Norfolk/Hampton Roads area of Virginia has been through several changes.  
Tir-y-don was first in 1975.  Along with Isenfir and Caer Mear, these three were 
cantons of the shire of Stonewall stretching across Virginia in 1976.   
Stonewall discussed being a barony but instead soon dissolved and the three 
became independent groups.  Partly for logistical reasons, Marinus formed on one 
side of the James River with Tir-y-don remaining on the other.  The two groups 
were cantons of the city-state of Dinas Moryn.  It had a mayor (later governor) 
instead of a seneschal.  When Tir-y-don became a barony Marinus retained the 
designation of city-state.

Dinas Moryn had a fighting unit called the Shield Wall of Dinas Moryn.  Each 
fighter had a shield painted with a section of a castle wall, so when they lined 
up the shields looked like a wall.     


Sometime after Stonewall dissolved Tir-y-don, Marinus,  Isenfir and Caer Mear 
formed a joint fighting unit for Pennsic called the Stonewall brigade, with a 
banner having all 4 devices on it and blue and gray baldrics (trimmed in white 
for knights and red for squires).



Stefan of Cambion
Kingdom Historian