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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1980)
ho said knighthood is dead? THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1980 Page 9 flp anv shirkiB United Press International us [ ts „ u ■iTLANTA (UPI) — The driver of the gold Chevrolet didn’t (s and infor M‘ eve w ^ at ^ ie seen i n an Atlanta park early one morning, ients would circled ? ne more , time J ust to , be su , re - |j v j ng ff ’■The scene the second time around was the same. About two •d eventsdisnM 1611 P eo P^ e appeared to be caught in a time warp. Armor- ■luded a T l men were beating each other with clubs and sword-like n jj Iks while several women clad in flowing medieval gowns sat . . ii l8 nor ' n g the Georgia heat and the weight of his costume, lt " ln ^ bhn Johnson — also known as “Sir John” — delivered a hard ' , , Kiw with his wooden sword to Alexander Steele’s legs. Steele, e ‘afi 1 r e !i un( j ane jy known as Alain Fitz Wallace,” fell to his knees as if argamzations# i i i i j truck by a real sword. ■The Society for Creative Anachronism was having its final “fighter practice” before some of its members headed for Pittsburgh for the Ninth Pennsic War. There, they joined some 600 other devotees of the times when knighthood was in flower to do battle under the banners of the Middle West and the Eastern States. The annual “war” is to settle a dispute over the boundaries of the East and Middle Kingdoms and “the loser gets Pitt sburgh,” according to Richard Wallace, a knight in the society. Society members include serious medieval scholars and specialists in the period’s arts, attire and cookery. They adhere to the caste system of that long-ago period — squires wait on knights and all are subservient to the king. Their conversation is sprinkled with “m’ladies” and “go yons and Berta Fuller, also known as “Berta of the Southern Isle, sips her chocolate milk from a silver goblet. Wallace says the fighting is “basically just pretend. But the power behind the blows from the wooden weapons — swords or axes — could cause injury if the fighters did not wear metal armor, which can weigh between 25 and 100 pounds. “When they hit you in the arm, your arm is cut off,” said Gordon, a student at the University of Georgia studying geolo gy, explaining the scoring. “When they hit you in your leg, your leg is cut off. To kill a person, you hit him in the head or torso. You win a battle either by killing him or disarming him. ” “It all very heavily depends on self honor,” Wallace adds. “You could win by refusing to admit a good blow but there’s a pretty strong emphasis on honor. 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