1. What country do you live in? What part of the country?
Englaland, in the Guthlaxton wapentake (hundred). About a days walk from Ledecestre (Leicester) to the noreast, and Coventry in the sowest; and A few hours walk from Rocheberie (Rugby) to the south. While I have never gone to see it, there is a high cross about half a days walk to the norwest where the ancient Roman roads of Fosse Way and Watling Street cross.
2. Are there any maps from your area (from your time) No, have not found any extant maps yet.
3. What is your capital? Wintonceastre (Winchester)
4. How far is it to the capital city? (in units of measure your persona would have used?) 100 miles
5. Have you ever been there? No
6. How did you get here? My great grandfather Ivo de Goce was given land becasue of his acts of valor and dedication to his baron on the battlefield of Hastings. VER
7. What is the climate like? We have cool weather, and mild winters. Very rarely do the men need to take off their tunics during thier work, exept perhaps in the warmest months of July and August. In the winter, we sometimes get snow, but it does not stay on the ground very long. The streams and rivers do not freeze over, and occasionally on some very cold nights in January and February would the water in pails and troughs get a rind of ice upon them.
8. What is the terrain like?
The land is rather flat, with a few hillocks and slopes. The flat lands are covered in grasses for grazing cattle and sheep, and the soil good for growing corn (grains) and oats. There are ample small woodlands along the creeks and marshes in the vales. EXP
9. Who are the people who live in this place?
Farmers, both freedmen and villeins. In the village of Lutterwurth, a few tradesmen such as the potter, the smith, stone cutters, woodworkers, and a tanner. VER
10. Who are the people who travel to or through here? TBD
11. What is the largest road and where does it go? TBD
12. The nearest church or cathedral? The church of St. Mary in the village of Lutterwurth. EXP
13. Nearest waterway? Is it navigable and how? The River Swift runs through the village of Lutterwurth. Ne name is deceiving, it is actually moreso a stream. During seasons of drought, some parts of it dry up and we need to take our livestock further down the river to drink. The river starts in the marshes to the east, and flows sowest to the River Avon.
13 7/32. And what do those letters mean?
(TBD-TO BE DETERMINED) I dont know the answers yet, but I will work on finding them.
(VER-VERIFY) Right now I am just making stuff up. ;-) I will work on fleshing out that story.
(EXP-EXPAND) I've so much more cool stuff to tell you about this, but I'll get to that later.
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Showing posts with label lutterworth. Show all posts
October 23, 2012
Resurrection!
I belong to the Facebook Group "Midlands A&S 50 Persona Challenge". It was started by the fabulous Baroness Verena Entenwirth as a way for people to dig deep and truly research their persona. Every 2 weeks a series of questions is posted, and then we research the answers to those questions.
Because I love making and wearing garb of many centuries, a sort of have a few SCA alter egos, depending on what I am wearing or doing that day. Some of them have names, and a small back story, but at events I am always Jocelyn. Facebook has done enough to make us forget all of our SCA names again, so calling myself a different name for the day is just too much.
I would like to mention my alter-egos though, because they are fun, hard working, and delightful ladies:
>Helga Ivorsdottir, 10th Dane living in Jorvik. While married to her first husband they lived in Iceland. It is a wild magical country, but she much rather likes the warmer temperatures and stability of city life with her blacksmith husband.
>Alice Choysse, 14th century widower in Oxford, took over her husbands bookshop where they took commisions for prayer books and rented out pecia for the students at the university.
>And every once in a while, Milly will leave the ancestral hunting lodge in the north, to come to dirty old 16th c. London to meet her sea captain husband and see what presents he has brought for her from afar.
It is turning our this Persona project is deeply fascinating, and I am going off on so many tangents, I would never be able to research and keep the biographies of 4 ladies straight. So we will focus on the first, my true namesake, Dame Jocelyn of Lutterworth. Lets begin to meet her in the next post.
Because I love making and wearing garb of many centuries, a sort of have a few SCA alter egos, depending on what I am wearing or doing that day. Some of them have names, and a small back story, but at events I am always Jocelyn. Facebook has done enough to make us forget all of our SCA names again, so calling myself a different name for the day is just too much.
I would like to mention my alter-egos though, because they are fun, hard working, and delightful ladies:
>Helga Ivorsdottir, 10th Dane living in Jorvik. While married to her first husband they lived in Iceland. It is a wild magical country, but she much rather likes the warmer temperatures and stability of city life with her blacksmith husband.
>Alice Choysse, 14th century widower in Oxford, took over her husbands bookshop where they took commisions for prayer books and rented out pecia for the students at the university.
>And every once in a while, Milly will leave the ancestral hunting lodge in the north, to come to dirty old 16th c. London to meet her sea captain husband and see what presents he has brought for her from afar.
It is turning our this Persona project is deeply fascinating, and I am going off on so many tangents, I would never be able to research and keep the biographies of 4 ladies straight. So we will focus on the first, my true namesake, Dame Jocelyn of Lutterworth. Lets begin to meet her in the next post.
June 4, 2006
Sunday, June 4, 2006
Fun With Google Part 1-What's in a name?
The "Lady Jocelyn" and the "Lutterworth" were clipper ships doing the immigration and supply runs from England to New Zealand the 2nd half of the 19th century.
More about the "Lady Jocelyn":
http://www.cossar.co.nz/c-lady-jocelyn.htm
And now back to work. I always find the coolest online stuff when I am supposed to be doing real job work. It is such a nice weekend outside but I had to bring home like 82 pounds of paperwork. UGGHHH!
Fun With Google Part 1-What's in a name?
The "Lady Jocelyn" and the "Lutterworth" were clipper ships doing the immigration and supply runs from England to New Zealand the 2nd half of the 19th century.
More about the "Lady Jocelyn":
http://www.cossar.co.nz/c-lady-jocelyn.htm
And now back to work. I always find the coolest online stuff when I am supposed to be doing real job work. It is such a nice weekend outside but I had to bring home like 82 pounds of paperwork. UGGHHH!
May 20, 2005
How I developed My SCA name
Friday, May 20, 2005
12:03:44 AM EDT Feeling Frustrated
Rhiannon -- Change your name!
To make a short story long: I think it is time to contact a pursuivant to get my name officially changed.
Back when I started the SCA in mumble mumble 1990, I was delighted to find out Rhiannon was a period name. And as a college student immersed in the hard rock college music culture and classic rock DJ on the campus radio station WEIU "rockin the Embarras River valley with 2 watts" OK the 2 watts isnt true, but geologically speaking we were in near the valley of a creek by that name. But I digress. So being that Fleetwood Mac was among my fave top 20 bands of all time, and you know, they had a rather obscure song by the title of "Rhiannon", I picked that as my SCA name.
Additionally, being the bookworm I was in college, I spent some additional time in the library researching other period names. I found my actual maiden name in some Oxford Book of English Names or such and such and found that a medieval form of it was Jocelyn. Ta Da-- there was my last name. Rhiannon Jocelyn was born into the SCA in 1990.
Rhiannon Jocelyn had fun as an unmarried maiden in her early years of the SCA, roaming from town to town downstate as school and first job took her. Lo and behold she meets a kind young man, who offered his heart and hand and she returned home to the lands of her birth to marry. As she found new folks to meet in the Shires of the north there seemed to be quite a few Rhiannons, 2 even in some shires. Her new friends needed a way to name their new friend so as not to confuse anyone, so she became Jocelyn. Just Jocelyn, or Lady Jocelyn to be exact, because before she moved north Jocelyn did recieve her AOA and Willow and there scribed upon these documents was RHIANNON JOCELYN.
Lady Jocelyn and her new husband did go forth and travel to the Debatable Lands in the east, to Pennsic, where she did pay her tax and have her name and arms entered into the great books of the Known World.
Many years went by and she grew to be a goodwife and mother and Jocelyn was a good name to carry with her into middle age. Rhiannon was a name for a maiden, no longer a maiden was she. But she still signed her name and art with her full name, but it never seemed like enough name.
She studied the stories and wills of her forbears and discovered they once lived in a town in England named Lutterworth. Lutterworth, whose name appears in the mighty Domesday Boke and whose great cathedral once protected Wyclyffe and his work. To honor those in her fathers lineage, she now signed her name Lady Rhiannon Jocelyn of Lutterworth.
But now it seams that her missives have caused confusion among her shire neighbors. Who is this person who signs her name Rhiannon Jocelyn? Is she new among us? She has been here five years and we havent seen her once!?
Harumph. OK so the face says Jocelyn, but nobody seems to know my full name. Using my middle name apparrently just confuses people. Well, am I ready to put the past Rhiannon behind me for good and just be Lady Jocelyn of Lutterworth? I have started signing my documents and letters in this way only. I will see how it feels.
Sincerely,
LADY JOCELYN OF LUTTERWORTH
12:03:44 AM EDT Feeling Frustrated
Rhiannon -- Change your name!
To make a short story long: I think it is time to contact a pursuivant to get my name officially changed.
Back when I started the SCA in mumble mumble 1990, I was delighted to find out Rhiannon was a period name. And as a college student immersed in the hard rock college music culture and classic rock DJ on the campus radio station WEIU "rockin the Embarras River valley with 2 watts" OK the 2 watts isnt true, but geologically speaking we were in near the valley of a creek by that name. But I digress. So being that Fleetwood Mac was among my fave top 20 bands of all time, and you know, they had a rather obscure song by the title of "Rhiannon", I picked that as my SCA name.
Additionally, being the bookworm I was in college, I spent some additional time in the library researching other period names. I found my actual maiden name in some Oxford Book of English Names or such and such and found that a medieval form of it was Jocelyn. Ta Da-- there was my last name. Rhiannon Jocelyn was born into the SCA in 1990.
Rhiannon Jocelyn had fun as an unmarried maiden in her early years of the SCA, roaming from town to town downstate as school and first job took her. Lo and behold she meets a kind young man, who offered his heart and hand and she returned home to the lands of her birth to marry. As she found new folks to meet in the Shires of the north there seemed to be quite a few Rhiannons, 2 even in some shires. Her new friends needed a way to name their new friend so as not to confuse anyone, so she became Jocelyn. Just Jocelyn, or Lady Jocelyn to be exact, because before she moved north Jocelyn did recieve her AOA and Willow and there scribed upon these documents was RHIANNON JOCELYN.
Lady Jocelyn and her new husband did go forth and travel to the Debatable Lands in the east, to Pennsic, where she did pay her tax and have her name and arms entered into the great books of the Known World.
Many years went by and she grew to be a goodwife and mother and Jocelyn was a good name to carry with her into middle age. Rhiannon was a name for a maiden, no longer a maiden was she. But she still signed her name and art with her full name, but it never seemed like enough name.
She studied the stories and wills of her forbears and discovered they once lived in a town in England named Lutterworth. Lutterworth, whose name appears in the mighty Domesday Boke and whose great cathedral once protected Wyclyffe and his work. To honor those in her fathers lineage, she now signed her name Lady Rhiannon Jocelyn of Lutterworth.
But now it seams that her missives have caused confusion among her shire neighbors. Who is this person who signs her name Rhiannon Jocelyn? Is she new among us? She has been here five years and we havent seen her once!?
Harumph. OK so the face says Jocelyn, but nobody seems to know my full name. Using my middle name apparrently just confuses people. Well, am I ready to put the past Rhiannon behind me for good and just be Lady Jocelyn of Lutterworth? I have started signing my documents and letters in this way only. I will see how it feels.
Sincerely,
LADY JOCELYN OF LUTTERWORTH
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