Sister Guineth? Who's she?
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In the Current Middle Ages....
In the Society for Creative Anachronism, Her Ladyship Sister
Guineth the White, GdS, JdL, dwelleth in the fair kingdom of
An Tir, Belden Abbey being neighbor to both the Barony of Three
Mountains and the Shire of Dragons Mist. Sister Guineth sits gate
at the occasional event, teaches and tutors SCAdians in matters
scribal, collects tales of An Tir history and hath assembled a
recounting of the An Tir Rebellion. She is learning, bit by bit, of
the history, life, skills, and religious practice of her medieval
avatar.
In Anglo-Saxon England....
It’s the year of our Lord DCCCLII, and the third year of the reign
of King Osbert Ethelredsson. Life in Northumbria is quiet and
moderately prosperous, except for the occasional raids of the
Northmen and some minor armed bickering between English
nobles. There hath come no famine nor plague for years now.
Sister Guineth is the wife of Father Roger; they have been
married for nigh on 25 years. They live at Belden Abbey,
somewhere in Northumbria, not far inland from the coast; Roger
is the abbot there.
Belden Abbey is a Christian religious household, founded
originally by a British Roman priest who came to the forest with
his kin and servants to escape the persecutions of Diocletian. The
abbey was strengthened by wandering Scotti religious. After the
pagan English came, it served as a missionary base. When the
English became baptized Christians, Belden Abbey was favored
with gifts and land by the local nobility. It is a double house – that
is to say, both male and female live here, chastely, but celibacy is not
required for married couples.
Sister Guineth is a long experienced scribe and hath in
charge the abbey Scriptorium. She doth spin and sew betimes
and taketh her turn with other chores also to the extent that her
primary duties and her sometimes precarious health permit.
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