Showing posts with label persona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persona. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2022

Just in time for the new year...

 ...I have a shiny new badge.

Suggested to me by our wonderful herald Kallinikos of Rhodes, it is fieldless, a Persian double-bow azure. I had been mulling possibilities for ages but would never have come up with such a perfect and delightful badge on my own. I already have a lengthy list of applications for it!

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Translating titles

Many of us who portray non-English personae in the SCA like to translate our titles into our persona's native language. I've tried this in the past, but the more "obscure" (at least to English speakers) the language, the more likely people will misinterpret the name-- I tried Sayyidah for awhile as the Arabic translation of Lady, and a few thought it was my name. I finally stopped using it.

Now that I'm a Lancer, though, and that title in particular carries more meaning for me, I'm looking into a translation for it. What I have found so far is "Ramaha." Again, if I use it without explanation it's liable to be mistaken for my name, but it's still fun to do the research and mentally try to project myself back to the time and place where, in an ideal circumstance, I might have been styled as such....

Monday, October 30, 2017

So You Want to Be a SCAdian Bedouin Woman?

I'll tell you now, it won't be easy. There is a dearth of information regarding the Bedu in period, and women in particular. Do you know how many period depictions there are of Bedouin women? Here, let me share the entire collection with you: