Fighters of Clan Gordon Assemble

The Calafia/Gyldenholt Friendship 2016 tourney theme was Gathering of the Clans.

Fu Ching Lan recruited Timotheus Zacharia von Schloss Zwilling and I for Clan Gordon.

One of the contests for the clans was a bardic performance, so I wrote a set of limericks. We didn't win the bardic contest, but I like the poems none the less.

Fighters of Clan Gordon Assemble

Fighters of Clan Gordon assemble.

We must make the enemy tremble.

By courage not by craft, [1]

Will we send them all aft.

Only then will we all disassemble.

We Gordons march to defend the Clan. [2]

Far across the horizon we span.

There is no march too hard,

Nor a warrior too scarred.

We will fight for our Chief, to the man.

Our dearest Cock of the North, Chief Fu, [3]

Has bid us here, in yellow and blue.

We will Stay and Fight, [4]

Till we set things right.

Thus the Clans will know we're tried and true.

In Califia we gathered the Clans.

Fu, Laird of Gordon, called for all hands.

We passed a fair day,

In hard work and play.

Proud, tall, and strong our Clan Gordon stands.

Notes

[1] "By courage not by craft" is a Clan Gordon motto

[2] "Gordon's March" is one of the Gordon Clan's pipe songs

[3] "Cock of the North" is a traditional title for the Chief of Clan Gordon

[4] "Stay and Fight" is a Clan Gordon motto

— Lynnette de Sandoval del Valle de los Unicornios