Eadwynne of Runedun

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Eadwynne of Runedun

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Preferred title:	Not specified
Their Pronouns:	Not specified
Resides:	Dreiburgen
Status:	Active Locally
Awards:	Visit the Caid Order of Precedence

Heraldry

Or, a chevron inverted cotised gules, in chief a dragon passant sable. I entered an art contest when I was really new and Lorissa du Griffin was Princess of the Principality of CAID. She was the judge and I won. I drew this dragon. I figured it was a sign and made it my arms. Alison was consulting herald. ~Eadwynne

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THL Theign Eadwynne of Runedun

Motto

Esto benignus, cito memor misericordiam (Be kind, and be quick to remember a kindness).

Quote

"I say, without irony or criticism, that the SCA is by definition a most Quixotic organization."

Associations

Squire to Sir Waldt von Markheim, 1978-Present;
Chief Gopher for Mistress Alison von Markheim
Member of House Markheim
Husband to Finnguala ingen Fhaelain Abann na Sailech
Father to Edmond Edwinsson Nikolaus Grünenwaldt and Mariah Beatriz
Co-founder of House Drachenstern
Guard of Saint Mary's Abbey and School for Mercenary Soldiers (trans-Kingdoms)

Event Staff

Autocrat Beggar's Picnic
Autocrat Peasant’s Picnic
Site Coordinator Collegium Caidis Spring 1981 at Riverside City College
Autocrat Gallavally Anniversary 1990
Autocrat Symposium of the Textile Arts of 15th and 16th Century Ireland and Scotland
Autocrat Crossroads Festival Demo 1993
Autocrat Gallavally Anniversary 1997
Autocrat Hammer-in 1998
Cartographer Great Western War 1997

Offices & Positions

Past Guildmaster of the Dreiburgen Armory
Dreiburgen Founding Guildmaster of the Dreiburgen Moneyers' Guild at the Hammer-in 1998
Dreiburgen Chronicler of the Dreiburgen News
Dreiburgen Science Officer
Dreiburgen Chatelaine
Gallavally Seneschal
Kingdom Minister of Sciences, 6/1990-1992, Last Kingdom Science Officer prior to combination with Arts Office
Ars Caidis Editor of the Ars Caidis 1991
Collegium Caidis Regent at Large, site autocrat Collegium Caidis Spring 1981

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Articles

Memories

From Eadwynne

I joined the SCA around 1977. One of my fondest memories, of course, is one of my first events in what became my home Barony, Dreiburgen in the Kingdom of Caid, the Investiture of Balin and Lorissa. We were still part of the Kingdom of the West at the time. I remember one of the fighters was Black, but he had a Viking persona (named Lars, I think). Everyone treated him as a Viking named Lars. I thought to myself, "This is a cool group."

We were also considered, by ourselves and the outside world, as a kind of "counter-culture." We were eccentric. And we attracted a lot of people that the outside world would have definitely called, "fringe." I think the SCA would distance itself from some of those people today, and others would now be totally accepted by our prevalent culture. Culture changes. But the biggest takeaway from "who we were" is that these vastly different types of people came together as a society and dealt chivalrously with one another despite huge philosophical, political and cultural differences, and differences of out-side world social class. In a word, we were egalitarian and believed in an (admittedly flawed) awarded meritocracy.

The "60s" ideal of who we were at the time was summed up as, "The Society for Creative Anachronism is a non-profit educational corporation dedicated to the re-creation of the middle ages, not as it was but as it should have been." The idea was that people would take on a medieval(ish) persona, and, instead of killing each other, they would share their cultures, understand each others' cultures, and make a better one.

Just for the record, we did host people who had real-world Royalist, Republican, Christian, Wiccan etc., etc. views. It didn't matter because the people were accepting of the differences and talked respectfully even when those views were in direct conflict. As a young man, I found this intellectually and culturally stimulating. I still do.