North Woods

A Barony of the Middle Kingdom
AKA The "Lost Barony"
motto: "Beware the Wolf"

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Side Trips to our Cantons:

Ealdnordwuda

Riding of Hawkland Moor

Weldlake

Iron Oak

East Fairlight

Side trips to the Knowne World:
Pentamere

a region of

The Kingdom of the Middle (Midrealm)
a part of
The SCA
(Society of Creative Anachronism)
Or visit with Lady Seadhli at the Pentamere and Canton of Weldlake Minister of Youth Website
Check out a medieval wedding at Aliyah's Wedding Day
Come see what we are about on the online SCA demo
And after your visit, come back - we missed you!

Greetings and Well Come to all who visit this land of the North Woods. We bid you good fortune and and invite you to peruse our many facets for your pleasure.

Note: In researching our history, I found we are officially listed as North Woods. As I have not found where we were changed, I have corrected the web page to reflect our registered name. - webminister

Please read Baron Odo and Baronessa Dulcinea's missive to the Populace of North Woods. There is now a "wish list" for our Barony. Please consider these requests.  For these and other missives, including the Baronial Council Meetings, you can find links to them on the missives page.

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Just a reminder that East Fairlight will be hosting the Baronial Council meeting this Sunday at 2:00 at the Main Branch of the Clinton, Macomb Public Library 40900 Romeo Plank, Clinton Twp., MI 48038.

See you there!

get directions, click here or click on map 

 


To introduce you to the history of North Woods pages:

Unto Áindle ÓDiarmada, greetings from Alison de Winfeld. 

I had the joy and honor to be Master Osric Cumbra's wife.   Hearing that you wished some tales of those no longer with us, I sat down and noted two incidents of Osric's that I definitely wish people to remember. :)  

In service and remembrance, 

Alison

The first story is copied below, the rest is here - webminister.

Why Osric sometimes felt nervous around Duke Sir Palymar

(as told to me many years ago, so some details might not be completely accurate)

A year or so before Osric and I met, the Shire of Dragonsmark cooked one of the Royal dinners at Pennsic. Being a feast in the field, with relatively primitive cooking and cleaning areas, the cooks and servers worked hard and fast in order that each remove be presented in a timely manner. Also, since it was a camping event, the Shire did not have as much in the way of serving ware as they might at a local event.

Osric and his good friend, Basilius Phocas, were working to clean dirty platters so that they could be used again for the next remove, when Duke Sir Palymar entered their work area to chat with Basilius. The evening was warm, and he removed his headdress and coronet and set them aside while he and Basilius spoke.

Osric continued working at a quick pace, grabbing a clean dishtowel when the one he'd been using was no longer clean or dry enough.

Then Palymar prepared to go back to the feast, and realized that while he saw his coronet, he could not find his headdress. It was red and white checked, of the style I've heard called kaffiahs.

By a strange coincidence, Osric was using what he thought was a red and white dishtowel to clean the remains of strawberries off of a platter.

Both men realized the problem at the same time, and as Basilius shook with laughter, Osric sheepishly handed back the headdress, which Palymar took with a disconsolate expression.

From that day on, Osric always kept his own supply of cleaning rags, and looked carefully at them before using them! And he made certain to be polite around Palymar, in the hope that His Grace might not plan some belated revenge.

 

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