[Official Minutes will be available soon via e-mail]

20 January 2017
Transcribed by Stephen Bloch

Meeting opened at 8:15, after lots of people delayed by bad traffic.

Seneschal:
We had an election for officer positions.  20 officers, 11 votes received, which is just enough.

Viceregents:
Populace badge is the blue, erect, orbed hooved and crined thing without leaves, fieldless.
Device is the same within an orle of laurel leaves (field?)
Order of the Seahorse is a natural seahorse, fieldless
clarifying this w/College of Heralds

Seeking ideas to make people proud of being from Østgarðr
Discussion of spelling and pronunciation.

Prince has announced that at Pennsic, EK is with Middle & Ealdormere against Aethelmearc & Northshield.

Herald (Mungu Chinua): Valhalla happened.  Court happened.  Alex McLoughlin got Sea Lion.

Chronicler (Rufina): E-Horse is out.  If you find technical glitches in the E-Horse, let us know so we can fix them.  Subscribe; it's free.

Lists (Erich): Need somebody to run lists for fencing because I want to fence.

Fencing (Alex): still have access to practice site.  Marion is still in PT, not fencing.  Had mtg at recent event; discussed practice sites in various parts of Østgarðr, fundraising, loaner gear, uniforms, ...

Chatelaine (Beatrice): Newcomers at Deck the Halls, Valhalla, etc.  Sofya received donation of clothing, archery stuff, etc. from an inactive SCAdian.

Exchequer (Angelica): We have $14K and change.  Still working on disposition of $128 of Gilded Pearl money.

Lions End (Brekke): Upcoming event April 22: A&S championship.  Farmingdale requested medieval demo on village green, paying gig, want fighters and A&S.  Date being negotiated, perhaps May.

Lori: Riverfest June 11.

Web (Arnora): Transferred registrations (sorta)

Brokenbridge (Arnora): Baconbridge II in June.  Next A&S Commons Feb. 26 "blacksmithing brunch"

Historian (Richard): history continues

Northpass (Thomas): getting feelers about a demo at White Plains Public Library.
Considering brewing event at Blue Mountain.
Reserved Veterans' Memorial Park for first weekend in June for fighting, throwing, fencing, archery event.
Barleycorn in planning stages
Bear's Tavern coming up: overnight reservations sold out
Goat's Tavern will happen again this year
Discussion of Canton officers reporting to their Provincial superiors

Recent events: already discussed

Upcoming demos: see above

Upcoming events: Bear's Tavern 3/3-5
Lions in Spring 4/22
5/13: Silver Horde 20th Anniversary
An Dubh investiture 9/16 (weekend after Barleycorn)
An Dubh fencing event some time in June
SRWC 6/9-11, conflicting with Riverfest

Bylaws Committee: has been tossing around wording on-line.  Discussion of required officers, Provincial awards, procedures for officer election, etc.

Coronets Committee: not much new.

Upcoming Commons: February at Piglet's, March at Gy's, April at Gary's.

No January Officers' Meeting

Adjournment 9:16

Directions to February Østgarðr Commons

February Østgarðr Commons will be Friday, February 17th  at 7:30PM at the home of Piglet Evans, 255 W. 105th St., #21 (at Broadway).  917-204-1175

The building is on the north west corner of 105th St. and Broadway, above Henry's (restaurant). Tell the doorman you are here for An Evening in the Solar. The elevator is around the doorman's desk, to the Broadway side of the lobby. 2nd floor, exit the elevator, *turn around*, enter door beside elevator.

By Subway

The closest subway stop is 103rd St., on the #1 train.

By Subway & Bus, NO STAIRS

Take your best route to the 1/2/3 96th St. stop. Exit using the elevator. Cross Broadway uptown to its east side, north of 96th St. Board the uptown M104 bus. Exit at 105th St. Cross Broadway, walk 1 short block to 105th St. Enter building. Take elevator to 2nd floor...

Østgarðr Events

• Bear's Tavern, Mar. 3-5, 2017
• Lions in Spring, Apr. 22, 2017
• John Barleycorn Silver Anniversary, Sept. 8-10, 2017
• Goat's Tavern:  The Pilgrimage for St. Harpo of Northpass, Oct. 20-22, 2017

Did You Know?

The Crown Province of Østgarðr has a badge, "A seahorse erect azure, hoofed, orbed and crined Or," that residents of the Crown Province have been using, de facto, as a "populace badge" for many years.  You could wear it on your hat, or paint it on your goblet, or embroider it on a pennon.  Let your Østgarðrian Spirit Flag fly!

• Coronation, April 1, 2017
  
• EK Brewers' Collegium, Apr. 21-23, 2017
• Spring Crown Tourney, May 6, 2017
• K&Q Rattan Champions

• At the Met:  Renaissance Maiolica:  Painted Pottery for Shelf and Table.  Through May 29, 2017
• At the Met:  Renaissance Portrait Medals from the Robert Lehman Collection.  Through May 29, 2017

Our Webbed database of upcoming early-music concerts in the Østgarðr area seems not to have survived the transition to the East Kingdom server. Until we get it working again, please see polyphony.com.

• An Ancient Philosophical Song Comes Back To Life after More Than a Thousand Years
  

  Cambridge U. prof shares his scholarly journey deciphering melodic patterns connected with Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.  Videos included.
  

• A Fanatical Monk Inspired 15th-Century Italians to Burn Their Clothes, Makeup and Art

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• Seventeenth Century Letters Discovered at Knole
  

  Three "remarkable" letters from the first third of the seventeenth century were discovered under the floorboards of a Tudor/Stuart-era stately home.
  

• Here's What Happens in a "Comic Book" Drawn by Medieval Monks
  

  Medieval monks were drawn to Prudentius' Psychomachia by its archetypal battle between Good and Evil--and some of them drew it, as well.

• What Life Was Like for a Medieval Leper
  

  University of Winchester researchers looking for a particular strain of leprosy also gained insights into medieval daily life when they studied the skeletal remains of a young pilgrim.