Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf

Subject: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Tig
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 04:15 PM

Welcome to Mudcat to our re-enactor friend Raedwulf.

His drinking horn is well worth seeing!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: MMario
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 04:21 PM

Never mind showing off the size of his horn - everyone knows it's quality not quantity that counts...

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Mrs Cobble
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 04:55 PM

Welcome Raedwulf..... you don't have to be a mad saxon around here but it sure will help :-)

Mrs C

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 05:11 PM

Welcome Raedwulf.......but you're about 1200years late!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Gareth
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 05:27 PM

Saxon ? - Hmmm! Welcome to the Madhouse.

Oh tis the tramp of Saxon ......

Gareth

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Hollowfox
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 08:49 PM

Welcome! Which country do you re-enact in? Letting us know what your tastes run to, musical and otherwise would be a welcome treat.

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 09:31 PM

is that Raed as in Rouge?

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 09:51 PM

Welcome, welcome to the Mad, I mean Mudcat Cafe!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 10:44 PM

Welcome, welcome, welcome!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Genie
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 02:11 AM

Wilkommen!

Is that Raedwulf as in "Red Wolf?"

And is that a self-descriptive name?

Genie

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 03:11 AM

Hello, welcome etc from the fB. Saxon ?? The entire band ??

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 04:03 AM

Is this to provide a bit of balance to the preponderance of Irish and Scottish Scottish Gaelic nom-de-plumes? I look forward to the refighting of Mount Badon and Brunanburgh in our columns.
Waes haeil!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 04:18 AM

Hello and welcome and have lots of fun

Love

cat

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Gareth
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 03:12 PM

Rerun Mount Baden Greg ? Count me in.

Gareth (Garydd ap Godfi ap Beni ap {continue for severel hundred ancesters})

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 05:02 AM

Have to rise to Greg's bait and welcome you, Raedwulf. So are you really a Saxon, or are you just angling for compliments?

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: greg stephens
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 05:05 AM

There you are, Raedwulf.There's one of them'em. Celts lurking behind every bush. Form the shield-wall!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: The Pooka
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 09:07 AM

Har har...this is getting good... Pay no attention, Raedwulf, to that ould Celt-belter Greg Stephens with his ould shield-wall; he's confusing us with the Fremen again...An Pluiméir Ceolmhar beat me to it but I'll say it anyway, welcome thou mighty Saxon, & what's yer Angle?

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 09:46 AM

Now don't you be calling me be a Celt-belter.I'm a Cornishman from way way back and proud of it.Welsh-belter,English-belter, Scots-belter, Irish-belter maybe.Oggie Oggie Oggie

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Pied Piper
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 12:08 PM

I think it's time Raedwulf unlocked his word hoard and proclaimed the valour of his deeds. All the best PP.

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Firecat
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 03:43 PM

Hiya!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From:
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 03:47 AM

Hwaet saegst thu, Raedwulf -- haefest thu raed, othther beost thu wulf othther wulfesheafod? Saga, thoncol mon.

Adam

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 03:57 AM

Welcome Raedwulf. Now don't go picking on people here now. There is far too much Saxon violence as it is...

Come and invade Swinton anytime though - Assuming you are on Tig's side of the pennines it's only a short hop over the 62. Unless you travel by pony...:-)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: greg stephens
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 04:05 AM

I look forward to arguments about the correct way to spell Anglo Saxon, and whether translations are needed.

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: The Pooka
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 09:26 AM

*BG* Well then I stand corrected re the Celtbelting, Cornwall Greg Stephens. Flay away at Albion & Eire, fla' awa' at Scotia, and whale a while on Wales (& cudgel Cymru too). Up the Solidarity of the Celtic Nations! :) (...fight among ourselves since we have no other worthy opponents...) As fer me, I'll take my punishment like a manx. And as penance for so diverting great Raedwulf's Welcome, I'll go out and Beo at the moon on Beltane.
---Pooka of Cornball

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: GUEST,Keital
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 05:18 PM

Thor's Beard! A Saxon, eh? Well it's a good thing; this old Viking was getting lonely!

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From:
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 09:01 PM

Naw, I won't defend my departures from classical west saxon spelling (tho' they were pretty irregular themselves). Just some friendly but inane punning. Raedwulf -- do you do musical re-creations? A few years ago I heard Benjamin Bagby perform the entire Beowulf at a sitting. Impressive and convincing.

Adam

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: HuwG
Date: 29 Jul 02 - 05:29 AM

Just been pondering the questions posed by Genie and others:

Is that Raedwulf as in "Red Wolf?"

And is that a self-descriptive name?

I seem to recall from my schooldays and from Tolkien that "Raed" means "advice" or "counsel", and that the Anglo-Saxon monarch Ethelred wasn't the unprepared "Unready", but the ill-advised "Unraede".

Do I get a prize for being close, Raedwulf ?

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 29 Jul 02 - 07:59 AM

Show yourself, Raedwulf. We want to see the moustache and plaits. And then there's the matter of the traditional round of drinks bought by new members: when do we get our horns of mead at Ye Olde Aelfredde's Cakkes Inne?

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Mrs Cobble
Date: 29 Jul 02 - 04:52 PM

....... guest Greg just watch Raewulf's home made Mead I've heard it's sooooooooooooo gooooooooood..!!!

Mrs C

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Tig
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 01:17 PM

Since Readwulf missed out on seeing this - welcome again. Mudcats don't mind repeating things!!!! (Sometimes it's the only way to get a message across.

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Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:02 PM

Since there was a Readwald (King of East Anglia) and a redwulf (King of Northumbria)He could be a corruption of this. He might be the "Ill advised" Or he could be the "Red wolf".

Which hundred do you come from?

Welcome to another Nordic, and Thor's day is a good day for joining to battle on the Mudcat.

May your beard never grow longer than your shadow.

May Odin always smile upon you.

May the gates Valhalla always be open to greet you as you cross the rainbow bridge.

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 03:04 PM

Welcome to the Cat, Raed! You have now answered the question, "Is there saxon Mudcat?" (I blame everything on Art Thieme..)

Jerry

Subject: RE: Saxon invades Mudcat - welcome Raedwulf
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 07:38 PM

Greetings guys. Only 3 months late finding this. Not bad for me... *g*

To belatedly answer many questions. Raedwulf is the germanic original of Ralph, my maternal grandfather's first name, & consequently my middle name. The elements have been correctly identified by HuwG, so the name is "wolf counsel". Or plain 'cunning' if you prefer... *Evil Grin*

Any of the 'catters who've been to Festival At The Edge will at least know me by sight - yes I'm the Strange One wandering around in saxon garb. And yes I've got a very big horn (& yes it's quality too, & yes so is what goes into it, especially if it's me been brewing it - The Magician will testify in due course when he gets around to drinking his payment!). And FATE is of course where I know the Rincewynd crew, Tig & etc, from. And also an utterly mad Dorset/Cornishman (so, no greg, you're not the first! *g*) called Hawk who plays a saw & promptly named me Raven. Which is probably also kind of appropriate...

I'm London born & bred, but have paternal roots down in Dorset, so can claim to be Wessex in origin (possibly). Mind you the maternal side goes back to Leics & ultimately to the Normans, but I try not to admit to tha... Bugger, bugger, bugger... :( *g*

I can't speak Anglo-Saxon, although I do know the various alleged pronounciations for the weird combinations. So I was quite gobsmacked to find that, yes, I think did just about what understand what you said to me Adam! I won't attempt an A/S reply, but yes, there's something of wisdom in me, perhaps, & something of the wolf, & plenty of the cunning. As to the wolf's head... Mmmmm... I'll let someone who's seen me decide on that one (especially if they've seen me with full beard & in mad mood...).

I'm most definitely English, if not the full Saxon band Mr. B. Never thought that much of 'em, Motorhead are vastly superior! *g* Have been acquiring a taste for folk over the last few years, inevitably starting with Steeleye Span, I guess! I used play electric guitar (shredding a la Van Halen/Malmsteen only not *quite* that good), but it's mostly been pre-17thC music on classical guitar over the last few years.

That's all gone to pot this year with the advent of A) my lute being fixed, & B) starting 15thC re-enactment (mostly in SE England, though I was also at Tewkesbury this year). Lute tuning is as per guitar, except the G is an F#, for those who don't know. This, of course, knackers all those reflexively placed chord shapes. Aaaaargh! *g*

Oh & I acquired a big F-off rope tensioned side drum from Marcus Music at Tewkes & it makes lots of noise!! *BBG* Yes that was me leading the King out (or following behind him, I forget which) on the Saturday. And making more noise than the six drummers who were standing together on the rebel scum side during the battle... *g*

Anytime any of you celtic types (mustn't say scum, musn't say scum, mustn't etc... *bg*) want a fight, feel free. Words, swords, staves, axes, yep I do the fighting thing too. Am also getting to be a pretty seriously good archer (longbow, did you need to ask? *g*).

Funnily enough, although I've been Raedwulf in a non-show group for very many years, I've never done any shows as a Saxon. 'Musical' recreation is a bit difficult, going that far back, which is one reason I'm currently doing 15thC - at least I can find the music! Also working on English Airs, folk songs & various fragments such as "Miri it is". I do do storytelling, though, & have been known to break into such tales as The Making of the Mead of Inspiration, & the Lay of Thrym (in saga style verse, making half of it up as I'm going along *g*), and am also Germanic pagan.

And now you know far more about me than you ever wanted to, I'll shut up, except to say, thanks for the warm welcome, even though I was just a little late spotting it! *bg*