Friday, August 27, 2021

Original Song: "Hand of Chivalry"

 For one of the Aethelmearc "AELive!" productions which helped keep the Kingdom together during the pandemic lockdowns, I was asked to perform a piece. I asked Maynard, then king and my nominal patron as one of two Sylvan bards, for a theme and he said "Uhh, Chivalry? The attributes of Chivalry maybe?"

... the King asked for a Chivalry song. Go figure. :D


So, I pondered and wound up writing this in a somewhat mundane folk ballad style in the key of C.

Original Poem: Jabberdooky

When a fellow fencer came to me with a plea to help write a mocking poem or song about a king of a non East kingdom at Pennsic, who announce...