Something to Sing

My current passion in the SCA is bardic arts: singing and storytelling. Not only is this a fun way to pass the time, it's also free! Resources are available on the internet or at any public library. As a service to all the aspiring bards reading this page, I thought I'd offer some resources.

The stuff on this page:

• Original stories and songs
• Original stories and poems on period themes
• Verse translations from Classical and Medieval Latin
• Teaching poems
• Useful web sites (coming soon!)
• Books with primary sources (coming soon!)
• Overcoming stage fright (coming soon!)

Original Stories and Songs

I've written a song or two over the past few months. I want to share them with you. Please, feel free to use them. If you are going to circulate them, please keep my name and the names of any co-writers attached.

Songs about the SCA in General:

• The Man with the Long Bow -- rated PG13 for suggestive content
• Freaking the Mundanes (modified to fit the Shire of L'Ile du Dragon Dormant)
• The King's Hunt
• The SCA 12-Step Program
• Gunthar and the Ladies
• The Ballad of Marian's Scones
• Waitin' for the Pop
• A Wedding Poem for Liam and Alethea
• The Wheels on the Bus (SCA Version) -- a Latin filk

Songs about Pennsic:

• The "Not At Pennsic" Blues
• I Charged the Calontiri Army
• No Longer Seventeen
• It Could Happen to You, SCA Version
• I Met a Bard Upon a Moonstruck Night -- a sonnet

Poems about Casa Bardicci:

• A Warning to Thieves
• A New Home
• Bardicci and the Pirates

Songs about the Barony of L'Ile du Dragon Dormant, my home barony and dear to my heart.

• Vivant Pellandres et Valeria
• The Wild Eastman Spam
• The Many Deaths of Petru

Songs about specific SCA groups.

• I Hope that We Reach the Event Site Today -- about the Barony of Havres des Glaces
• Directions -- also about the Barony of Havres des Glaces
• Honour the Skraels -- about the Barony of Skraeling Althing

Songs about Baron Ernst Nuss von Kitzingen, head of my household.

• Ernst Takes a Student

Songs about The Lady Joane Glory, a local pirate ship-hold (household based on a ship).

• Balfar's Privateers
• Cap'n Eric's Alphabet
• Cap'n Eric "for Kids"
• The Fearsome Sable Banner
• Three Vivats and an AHHRRR!
• The Wonderful Lady Joane

Songs about House Broken Axe, a local archery household.

• The Tree that Wouldn't Fall
• Ballad of the Lost Bear

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Original Stories and Poems on Period Themes

An ongoing project, attempting to take lesser-known yet still fun Judeo-Christian from period and put them into original verse or story format.

• Judah and Tamar -- based on Gen. 38
• The Tale of Reprobus -- guess who it's about

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Verse Translations from Classical and Medieval Latin

I am currently in the process of studying Latin. As a study aid, I have been writing verse translations of classical Latin texts. That is, I take Latin poetry and write it as English poetry. Once I start studying Medieval Latin, there shall be translations of those pieces as well. This list is currently small, but growing.

Classical Latin:

• Martial, X, 61 (Erotion epitaph)
• Catullus, 101 (Funeral rites)

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Teaching Poems

Another ongoing project, poems written in a specific form (eg: sonnet) that explain how to write that form. You'll understand if you read one.

• A ballad isn't hard to write -- a ballad about ballads
• The sonnet is the easiest of poems -- a sonnet about sonnets

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Comments on this page? Want to suggest a link, book, or submit your own bardic piece? Email the webmistress at julie.golick@gmail.com.

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