“Anno Societatis” is Latin for “Year of the Society”, and is abbreviated “AS”. The SCA measures years since its first tournament on May 1, 1966. Therefore, the Society’s New Year’s Day is May 1. Similarly to other calendars, the first year of the Society was AS I, there having been no “year zero”.

In written documents, the year is almost always expressed in Roman numerals, though using Arabic numerals or writing the numbers out in English are acceptable alternatives.

This is an Ildhafn award. It is granted for service to the Barony.

Traditionally an alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

A steel helm from the 14th century.

The bascinet could be open faced, or visored.

When worn with an open face a Great Helm was sometimes worn over the top for additional protection. This could then be discarded for better visibility.

A common visored style was the Pig-Faced bascinet

A brigandine (sometimes spelled brigantine). also called a brigander, is a form of body armour, in use from the late Middle Ages. It is a garment typically made of heavy cloth, canvas, or leather, featuring small oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric such that the fabric and rivets were present on the outside, sometimes with a second layer of fabric on the inside.

This is an Ildhafn award. It is granted for exemplary courtesy

Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh. It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons

Charcloth is used to aid in the lighting of fires. It is made from cloth, such as linen, that has been charred or burnt. The method to make charcloth is fairly simple. You either place small pieces of cloth in a metal tin, or in a pot and then cover with sand. You add this to a fire so that the cloth heats up and start to smoulder. The aim is to pre-burn your cloth. Once the holder you have the cloth in has been added to a fire you wait for it to start smoking, this is the cloth inside burning, after a while remove the pot or tin from the fire and check the cloth. Ideally it should have turned black. It will be fairly fragile, if it hasn’t charred then add it back to the fire and wait a bit longer.

Chausses were a medieval term for leggings, which was also used for leg armour; routinely made of mail and referred to as mail chausses, or demi-chausses if they only cover the front half of the leg. They generally extended well above the knee, covering most of the leg. Mail chausses were the standard type of metal leg armour in Europe from the 9th to the early 14th centuries CE. Chausses offered flexible protection that was effective against most hand-powered weapons, but was gradually supplemented and then replaced with the development of iron plate armour for the legs in the second half of the 13th to first half of the 14th century

Cluain is a Canton in the SCA Kingdom of Lochac.

Geographically it is the Waikato region of New Zealand.

The Crescent Isles is the name for New Zealand within the SCA. It is a part of the kingdom of Lochac