Golden Swan Tournament

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Golden Swan Tournament is held annually on the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend in Appledore.

Golden Swan is a persona development challenge for female personas. The purpose of Golden Swan is to foster knowledge of the lives of women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

A successful Golden Swan has acquired a level and depth of understanding of what a woman's life was like in a given time period that may be unequalled even in the highest academic circles.

Each year the candidates enter 12 categories. Eight are mandatory: Persona Development, Skills and Technologies, Costuming, Needlework, Calligraphy, Everyday Life, Courtesy and Etiquette, and Inspirational Behaviour. The candidate must also choose 4 out of 6 of the following: Games and Pastimes, Bardic, Dance, Survival Skills, Habitat, Food.

Please note that all categories are open to anyone as individual contests.

XX/1985

• Kyrsteen ap Sennann du Saone
• Thiere Eriksdottir (Kelinda Garrett)
• Elspeth Aylena of Alnwick
• Gayelle Spence

XXI/1986

• Janet Marie nic Alaster McBain
• Eileen Falconer

XXIV/1987

• (none)

XXIII/1988

• Madelein de Vos (Gudrun)

XXIV/1989

• Mother Abbess Megan
• Anthea de Northeton

XXV/1990

• Aelana Maria Magdalena d'Firenza (Aelana Cordovera)
• Helene von Gruner

XXVI/1991

• Adriana Juliet Francesca Maria della Cassa della Sangomano

XXVII/1992

• Meresigha Stonegatta

XXVIII/1993
XXIX/1994
XXX/1995
XXXII/1996

• (none)

XXXII/1997

• Eloise de Montagne

XXXIII/1998

• Vigdis Bjornsdottir

XXXIV/1999

• Osorgarow the Dredful
• Nadjeszka

XXXV/2000
XXXVI/2001
XXXVII/2002
XXXVIII/2003
XXXIX/2004

XL/2005

• Julia Aurelia, born in Uriconium (now Wroxeter) Britannia and now resident in Rome
• Lucy Pogge, born in Clee, Lincolnshire and now living in London

XLI/2006

• Golden Swan Tournament XXXVI/2001
• Golden Swan Tournament XXXVII/2002
• Golden Swan Tournament XXXVIII/2003
• Golden Swan Tournament XXXIX/2004
• Golden Swan Tournament XL/2005