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The Voice of the High Cliffs

The TankArd is the official newsletter for the Canton of Ard Chreag. Any member of the Canton is free to submit any stories, articles, poems, recipes or artwork they would like to see published.

Ardchreag Loves History!

That sort of goes without saying for most historical recreation groups. And while the history of the Middle Ages is quite important to us, equally if not more so is the history of our own group. Our newsletter is the ongoing chronicle of our history, and thusly is very dear to our hearts.


Currently, the TankArd is published every month and often features the following columns:

  • Event Reports! Didn't make it to that event last month? You can bet somebody did, and they'll let you in on what you missed!
  • So What's Yer Persona, where Canton members share their persona backgrounds and SCA pursuits and interests
  • Sayeth What!?!? The photo captioning contest where everyone wins. Silly photos are posted on the Canton email list, results are collected for The Tankard.
  • Greetings from the Chronicler, where the Chronicler tells everyone what changes have been made to the Tankard that issue
  • Greetings from the Seneschal, where the Seneschal tells everyone new developments that the populace needs to know
  • Food for Thought, a recipe column
  • As well as weekly meeting locations and topics, fight practice and archery times and places, upcoming events, Kingdom/Baronial/Canton contacts, an officers' list and a Canton contact list
  • And much much more!
What else could you ask for? All this on top of short stories, poems, art and photographs! (If you can think of something, email the Chronicler at the address below.)

The TankArd is published Quarterly. The Chronicler is always looking for new submissions!

The deadline for the next month's TankArd is the last Monday of the current 3-month cycle.

The Canton of Ard Chreag's Chroniclers are currently:

 

Eirik Andersen
M.K.A. Kyle Andrews

eirik@rogers.com
Tarian verch Gadarn
M.K.A Michaela Helliwell
mari_mari_mac@hotmail.com


Please Note: The Tankard back issues are in .PDF format to retain their look and feel. From issue #33 onward, they are perfect digital copies, which can easily be printed. Before that, they are scans of the printed copies.

Issue Date

Cover of Issue

Issue Highlights


Download Acrobat

#69

Janurary-March 2006


3.69 Mb
Event reports of Snowed Inn V, Late Winter Shoot, Septentrian 12th Night, Featuring: The Potted Pursuivant, Sayeth What?!?, Beastiary of Ard Chreag.
#68

October-December 2005


3.73 Mb
Event Reports of the Battle of Baron's Howe II, Pennsic War 34, Day of Piracy. Featuring How to build a A Frame.

#67

Feburary-September 2005


1.87 Mb

Event Reports of Spring Crown Tourney, Pikemans Pleasure, War of the Trillium, Ard Chreag Library Demo.

#66

January 2005


2.08 Mb

The Kremlin of Moscow, Exchequers Report, Event Reports of East Kingdom Winter War, Snowed Inn IV.

#65

December  2005


2.61Mb

The Kremlin of Moscow, Event Reports of Septentrian 12th Night, Season of the Wolf.

#64

December 2004


3.01Mb

The Kremlin of Moscow, Utopia” As A Criticism of the Tudor Monarchy, Event Reports of Day of the Trubadors, Ard Chreag 12th Night.

#63

November 2004


3.57Mb

Point of Honour by Wat, Feast of the Hare & Feast of the Bear Event Reports, A Mid-Winter's feast by Mahault.

#62

October 2004


2.85Mb

Eirik's first issue. Crown & Baron's Howe Event Reports, Mahault's High Horse, English Money by Mahault. Printed version featured a colour cover!

#61

February 2004


1.18Mb

Event reports from Snowed Inn and Berus's Barroom Brawl, Mahault's Quick & Dirty guide to Illuminations, Ard Chreag's Persona.

#60

January 2004


2.69Mb

Event reports from Crown, List of Canton Assets, A Song by Thorfinna

#58

November 2003

1.81Mb

Event reports from Feast of the Bear, Coronation. How to build a Goth Bench. Thorfinna's last issue.
#57

October 2003

1.81Mb
Event reports from Feast of the Bear, Coronation. How to build a Goth Bench
#56

September 2003

7.70Mb
Pennsic War Reports & Pictures, Song & Poetry for Siegfried and Brandt
#55

 July 2003

5.92Mb
EWP Skirmisher Reports, Pikemans Report, Latin Lessons, Article on Persona
#54

June 2003

2.18Mb

Tons of Event Reports & Photos, How to make SCA legal elbows, officer stuff.
#53

May 2003

2.99Mb

Quick and Dirty Banners, The Medieval Bestiary, Event Reports
#52

April 2003

5.78Mb

April Fools Issue. Tons of funny stories! Poop your pants funny!
#51

March 2003

4.03Mb
Snowed Inn Event Report, lots of articles on sewing, Septentrian Battle March
#50

 
January/Feburary 2003

2.25Mb

Flemish Working Class Dresses, Saint Crispinus, Uncle Berend’s Bad Advice Thorfinna's first issue.

#49

December 2002

1.1Mb

Uncle Berend’s Bad Advice, Christmas Lore, The Making of an Eliz. Dress. Mahalt's last issue.

#48

November 2002

1.44Mb

Flemish Working Class Dresses, Saint Crispinus, Uncle Berend’s Bad Advice

#47

October 2002

2.83Mb

Eirik on Photograpy, Uncle Berend’s Bad Advice, Russian Garb Patterns

#46

September 2002

1.62Mb

Mahault's First Issue, Tons of Pennsic stories, Uncle Berend’s Bad Advice

#45

August 2002

1.41Mb

Colyne's Last Issue, EWP & Piracy Report, Homer Reveled!

#44

July 2002

2.31Mb

Pikemans Report (Cynred's Bath), Septentria Posters and loads of photos!

#43

June 2002

1.36Mb

Events Reports, Order of Precedence, Tons of new songs!

#42

May 2002

1.33Mb

Officer's Messages, Brandt’s Quest, Tons of Event Reports and more!

#41.5

April 2002

1.40Mb

The April Fools Issue! The Ardchreag Rebellion 

#41

April 2002

0.91Mb

 

A Champion for Septentria, Wulfgang and the Winter War.

#40

March 2002

1.20Mb

Snowed Inn highlights, Eirik and the Mountain Troll.

#39

February 2002

1.80Mb

How Bobo Came to the Cliffs, Mahault and the Magic Belt.

#38

January 2002

1.13Mb

The A-Song, Rules of Glic, Duke Sir Bjornsson and the Ring.

#37

December 2001

1.16Mb

How the Ardchreag Standard was Lost, and of how it was Found Again

#36

November 2001

1.11Mb

Ten Men of Ealdormere, Food For Thought, The Annual Canton Moot

#35

October 2001

1.28Mb

A Brief History of Hallowe’en, Armour Up!

#34

September 2001

0.95Mb

Pennsic War Details, Event Report: Ealdormere War Practice 3

#33

August 2001

1.12Mb

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Ulrich Von Den See. Colyne's first issue.

#32

March-April 2001 

6.32Mb

Raffe's last issue of The Tankard. Newbies first event, Medieval Coins

#31

Jan-Feb 2001

4.03Mb

Raffe returns for this issue

#30

July 1999

3.01Mb

The second of the two issues of The Tankard published by Elf

#29

June 1999

2.77Mb

The first of the two issues of The Tankard published by Elf

#28

July-August 1998

3.45Mb

Dice Games, Machine Hems, Pikemans Pleasure review. Raffe's last issue.

#27

May-June 1998

3.71Mb

Investiture of Berus and Marion, First Ealdormere Crown Tourney  

#26

March-April 1998

4.64Mb

Crown Tourney Planning, 5&6 Mans Morris, Finishing Seams

#25

Jan-Feb 1998

2.09Mb

Medieval Games, Medieval Vocabulary

#24

July-August 1997

4.83Mb

Purposed Kingdom Laws, Within the Keep, Games: Karnoeffel

#23

May-June 1997

4.27Mb

Locations of SCA Kingdoms, Medieval Meanderings, Investiture XXV

#22

March-April 1997

5.82Mb

Candlemas, Game of the Goose, Primero, Within the Keep

#21

Jan-Feb 1997

3.18Mb

Wassail, Septentrian 12th Night, Pimero Rules

#20

Nov-Dec 1997

4.29Mb

Card Games in Period, Glic

#19

Sep-Oct 1996

3.24Mb

Twelve Men Morris, Intro to Court Protocol, Bring out your Dead Update

#18

July-August 1996

4.58Mb

May Day, Cub Demo, Fox and Geese, Bardic Circle

#17

May-June 1996

4.21Mb

Hugo goes to Town, Feast of the Checky, Article on the SCA by Sylar

#16

March 1996

3.78Mb

Septentrian 12th Night, Coronet Tourney, Tablero, Coronet takedown

#15

Jan-Feb 1996

3.86Mb

Fitchneal, Moot Summary, Map of Ealdormere, Scotchtoberfest

#14

Nov-Dec 1995

1.71Mb

Mancala, Period Coining, Food for Thought, Tournament of Queens

#13

Sep-Oct 1995

4.95Mb

Septentrian War Practice III, Pennsic War, Movie Review: First Knight

#12

Sometime 1995*

This is one of the issue numbers that was skipped!

#11

July-August 1995

3.87Mb

Murder Melee XII, Games Galore, Light of the North, Saint's Feast Days

#10

May-June 1995

2.96Mb

Shoemaking by Thev, Blaines Banners, Shut the Box, Line of the North

#9

March-April 1995

3.34Mb

Septentrian 12th Night, Blaines Banners, A Song by Hector, Making Mail

#8

Jan-Feb 1995

3.76Mb

Persona Pursuits II, Viking Raid on Eoforwic, Food for Thought

#7

Nov-Dec 1994

4.56Mb

A Comic, Duties of a Canton Pursuivant, Period Eye Glasses

#6

August 1994

3.65Mb

A Crossword, Connor's Corner, Rumor Has it.

#5

May 1994

2.21Mb

Moot Minutes, Senechals's Blurb, Eirik's Demo report.

#4

Dead Issue

We skipped a bunch of numbers here in the early years. So shoot us! 

#3

late 1993

1.93Mb

The first Tankard! The face on the cover looks vaguely familiar...

Raffe's first issue.

#2

The Red Arrow 1993

1.13Mb

The Red Arrow was our second crack at a publication. The name only lasted for this one issue.

Sam Forkbeard's last issue.

#1

Ardchreag 1993

0.81Mb

The Incipient Canton of Ardchreag.. Our first newsletter! Sam Forkbeard's first issue.
*past chroniclers liked skipping issue numbers back and forth occasionally. What are ya goona do?

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