The other night I was at a sca party where a historian was talking about his resarch into an order of monks called the vegans from wich the term vegabon seams to have come. They would travel about going from one monistary to the next, suporting them selves between monistarys by entertaining in pubs, teaching things they learned at the monistaries like latin, medicen, art, what ever, and living off the land. They developed quite bad reputation, singing bawdy songs, telling off collor jokes, and nocking up form girls along there way and were evensally striped of clerical status and later excomunicated. According to this guy, the story of the big rock candy mountan is desended from one of the vegan ledgeneds about one of their saints which I got the impresion, may have evolved for the benifit of their audiance whom they would need to please for the sake of getting handouts.

I'll see if I can get ahold of this guy and have him fill in the gaps or correct any fallacys I may have created in my retelling of a story I really didn't know to begin with.