Ulf Johannes Peter von Greiffenburg

Greetings,

I am Herr Ulf Von Greiffenburg. I first discovered and then lost the SCA in Loch Salann, Atenveldt back in 1978. I couldn't seem to get my mother to let me play with these "Wierd people at the university..." Years later I managed to make some friends who were all students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who were very active in the Barony of Winters Gate. I on the other hand was too busy with my future ex-wife, so I still didn't really get to play, this was the year that Sir Kylson became the first Prince of Oertha. I eventually was rediscovered by a young lady while walking through the queue at the dining facility at Northern Arizona University. I was just standing in line and she was babbling away about alternate personae and I knew that the next words to come out of her were going to be "I'm conducting a study on South Campus. Would you like to participate?" or "Have you heard of the ..." "SCA?" I finished the scentence for her. She introduced herself as Audra the Schenechal of Ered Sul and would I like to come to the event on Friday night (yes her phrases really did string together without a breath). This time I determined to actually go to an event. Oh, that is a long time ago. More than twenty years now. The things that I have seen and done and seen done by others during these many years. Some of them are stories that I shall tell, if we should ever meet. Some, I am still trying to forget ever happened, and some, I will never admit to ever having been involved with at all.... "Why, yes your Majesty, I will gladly help return the Thrones of the West to their encampment. No, your Majesty, HIS Majesty Jade seems to have very little humor." (An Tir encampment at Estrella War)

I am a late Thirteenth/Early Fourteenth Century German Crusader. I managed to escape at the final collapse of the defenses of Acre in the year of our Lord 1291, and somehow to return by a very circuitous route to my native lands in Ostmarch. During that time I have had the pleasure to have known and served with many fine folks from these many Kingdoms. I am now the eldest living Son of Her Excellency, Baroness Alexandra de la Mer Vert, OP, Admiral of Atenveldt. I suppose that it is through this family line and our associated mentors that I developed my need to serve and to create things of beauty and good taste. I remember the early years listening to stories while sitting by the knee of Ioseph of Locksley, Baroness Cher, Grandma Ceit and Grandpa Thoralf, Uncles Rurik, Nootka and Rabert, Master Mark the Imoral and of course Master and Mistress, Arik and Roslyne, to whom I shall always owe some form of fielty, though those oaths were long ago held fulfilled. Their stories shaped and forged me into the man I grew to become. All of the other events of those early years were the stuff that tempered my steel. The events since then are the things that have tested that temper and strength time and again. To date I have bent oft, but never broken. To the mighty ancestors, Hail, Good Health and Pleasant Journies! Hail to the Dream! Hail Chivalry! Honour before Victory! (Death before Dismount!)

I have lived in many lands. My Wife and family are from An Tir. The land of westerning seas, mighty rivers and looming mountains will always be my home. The cold of Oertha shall never touch the warmth of the harth and home of my kith and kin. The land of the Phoenix, Sunny, Sandy, Atenveldt will always hold my heart. Hear now the mighty roar of the Sundragon! "These colours don't run!" "We are the Thunder and Lightning of the STORM!" The Sundragon (Sadambane) flew over Griffen Base for one week in January of that year. The Mongol invasion of An Tir AS XXVIII - XXX. Ahhhh, yes, brewing for Thirty Year, Drinking and singing at Thirty Year with Her Grace, hosting my friends and relations from the Sun. My daughters trying to hook me up with every beautiful Lady at the showers. Brianna and my birthday party..... And the bitter cold of May Drown in Prinville. I finally got to go to Pennsic!!!!!!! I also got to see my oldest fight in her first war! That ROCKED!

Currently The Honourable Lady Sárnat, all five daughters and I all live in the Barony of the Flame, Oaken Region, Middle Kingdom. I actually won the A&S Champion (It was the beer, infusions and leatherwork) and finished second in the lists, only to deploy with the Imperial Army to the Hindu Kush for Enduring Freedom V-VII.

I still love the fine craft of brewing. I do some of my own armouring (not much), leatherwork and of course there are the four "Fs!" Feasting and Fighting being the only ones we can elaborate on in such a gentle forum. Now I am Squired to Sor Ustad the Dreded, a Turk.... go figure, Squired to a Mongol, Apprenticed to an Evil Baron in service to Her Grace Hlutwiga and now to a Turk, nothing is ever simple in our society.

Virtue! Valor! Victory!

In Service to the Light of the Dream,

Ulf Von Greiffenburg,

Companion of the Right Noble Order of the Goutte de Sang

Past Master of the Lodge of Ancients at Place of Beavers, Dragons Mist

Wandering Elder of the Lost Tribes, PaPa of the Green and Yellow braid

(I've been around the block, I wander, Fathered many Daughters, what else is a member of the Lost Tribes to do?)

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Write what you will, I am sure that there are many stories to be told at my expense.