As cool weather settles into our fair kingdom, fighters enjoy a more pleasant environment on the list field. Glynn Rhe promises to give them plenty of fast-paced contests to test their prowess:

Friday evening torchlight tourney — round robin, all weapon styles

Armor inspection will be open Friday evening and all day Saturday. First tourney on Saturday begins promptly at 10 a.m.

Saturday morning "Rise and Shine" tourney — single elimination, shieldless

Conventional single elimination tourney — all weapon styles

The "Wine List" — teams of 3 fighters compete in an open melee tourney. Each combatant donates a bottle of wine to the purse. Fighters under the legal drinking age may provide a non-alcoholic alternative such as cider. The winning team takes all!

The "Grand Fur Ball" — all teams take to the field; last fighter standing wins

"Holmgang" — a sure-to-be-dignified fighting activity

For the A & S crowd there will be a contest for "best period adult beverage." Saturday evening promises a hearty feast prepared by HE Aelfgifu including dishes flavored by wine or cheese. The feast shall be followed by learned discourse and noble fellowship under the direction of Sir Iain Geirmunddsson.

Daytrip	Daytrip/off-board	Weekend	Weekend/off-board
$15.00	$8.00	$18.00	$11.00

$2.00 discount for reservations postmarked no later than September 15, 2008

Non-members please add $3.00 Children 12 and under are half-price

Make checks payable to: SCA, Inc./Shire of Glynn Rhe

Site opens at 5:00 p.m Friday and closes at 11:00 a.m. Sunday

Autocrats		Reservations	Feastcrat
Sir Aubek Feldan C/o Mike Schuerer 707 Line Street NE Decatur, AL 35601 256-309-0021 mikenbama@aol.com	THL Roadold Naismith 256-654-1037	Master Allan of Moffat C/o Ken Hovey 315 Church Street NE Decatur, AL 35601 256-353-5819 masterdags@yahoo.com	Greifynja Aelfgifu Haroldsdottir 256-350-7795 Please, no calls after 10 PM

Directions: Take I-65 to Exit 37, then Hwy.50 South/East. After 100 yards turn left onto Joe Reeves Rd. Take the next left onto Luke Moser Rd. Go to Gillespie Road and turn right. The Centre is on the left after the stream.

Feast: Tentative menu

• Cameline sauce (cinnamon)
• White garlic sauce (roasted garlic)
• Lombard Pasties - chicken breast with bacon in pastry
• Barley stew with beef
• Wastels Yfarced - toasted roll halves stuffed with spinach/mushrooms/raisins
• Plain rolls
• Roasted pork - rubbed with salt and pepper
• Cabbage with cracked wheat and pine nuts - onions, white wine, and pine nuts all baked together
• Chicken in lemon sauce - browned leg quarters stewed in almond milk, stock, onions and lemon juice
• Winter squash with butter and rosemary
• Apple and orange tart

Period Adult Beverage Competition:

In a twist on traditional A & S competitions, the team that wins the Wine List melee tourney will judge the event's only A & S contest and determine who has provided the "Best Period Adult Beverage." Each fighter will perform a blind tasting and will rate entries on a scale from 1-10. Just to keep things on an upstanding scholastic level, entries that are accompanied by documentation gain an extra point--unless it is written on a cocktail napkin.

If you are involved in brewing or vinification, please consider attending our event. We are actively seeking experienced beverage makers as well as newbies for this less-than-objective-and-wildly-non- academic contest. We are encouraging contestants to bring large samples so that anything left unconsumed after the entries have been reviewed by the judges may also be scrutinized by event attendees of legal age and discerning palate. This may lead to an informal roundtable discussion and associated tomfoolery.

Fighters of legal age, please be aware of your extra responsibilities should your team win the Wine List melee tourney and be prepared to discharge your judicial duties with the appropriate level of gravity. Fighting beverage makers and beverage making fighters shall be allowed to enter both the tourney and the A & S contest. Should they win the tourney, they will be encouraged to score their own beverage as highly as they see fit.