12/01/2021
Greetings Good Gentles, Vikings, Varlets, Knights, Knaves, Galloglasses and Kerns, Franks, Scots, Irish, Danes, Saxons, Moors, Saracens, Celts, Persians, and anyone else we forgot.
Continuing a tradition that dates back to 2003, Kate and David Smidsson invite you to a Viking Christmas party. In holding with the traditions of both Christmas and Vikings, we will eat, drink, and burn a neighboring village to the ground and steal! um, pillage everything they own and give it to each other as gifts, and then pillage it from each other for good measure.
The party is Saturday, December 4th 2021, from 5 PM until the last guest collapses, is wheeled off, or cries, “hold enough” will be held at the home of David Smidsson and Kate. Please bring one side dish to share, and one period/SCA gift to exchange (less than 25 dollars). Gift exchange will be in the Viking style, with the chance to pillage gifts from the recipients. Once a gift is opened, the next person can choose to open another wrapped gift, or take one already opened from someone else. In the end, everyone will have a gift, just not necessarily the one they started with.
We will provide a selection of main dishes of meat courses and everyone else is invited to bring their favorite period or mundane food. Bring whatever you like to drink – we will provide spiced cider and soft drinks. If you choose to consume alcohol, please do so responsibly and have a plan for transportation. Guests without a plan for transportation will turned over to the Spanish Inquisition. (What!? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!) Seriously, if nothing else, you can crash on the floor until the next day (better the floor than a lamppost). It is a period party, so garb is appropriate, but not required. All in the known world are invited, but especially our good friends in the Kingdom of Atlantia, Barony of Windmasters’ Hill and the Cantons of Attilium and Nimenfeld. (And the Rest of you, where ever you may reside)
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