Archive of the Newsletters of Oertha

In Old Newsletters - you'll find what should be in Newsletters:
Event Review/Reports, Poetry, Articles, Court Reports/Awards Given, Event ideas!
Event Locations, Recipes!, announcements!, Group Historical information, Who had what job.
ALL THE THINGS!

Some have addresses/phone redacted, some not. If you find any phone numbers or addresses you want removed, let me know.
e-mail: khevron(at)warpmail.net
Some are scanned in page by page (like reading a book), some whole side at a time (taking the newsletter apart and scan like you could re-print them).
If you don't find a newsletter of your chosen group for a certain date/range, look at other newsletters around that date - there is a lot of cross-pollination, showing event copy for other groups and useful articles from other newsletters!

Many people toss their newsletters after reading, some keep them.
If you've kept any old paper newsletters, PLEASE let me borrow them to scan and return to you!
Electronic Newsletters welcome as well!
If you're a chronicler and have the original computer files or paste-ups, please send them to me!
Let us preserve the History of Oertha and Oerthan Groups!

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

SCA Calendar (what year is which?)

These archives are whole scans, or text versions with personal information removed.
You can usually find the 'Official" version of current Branch Newsletters in the files section of the groups e-mail list.

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These are ordered to beginning of publication
Most of these sites are just getting started. "!" by each means there are newsletters to be seen.

Recent Additions: Latest at the bottom Added December, 2024 (found a small hoard from Sorcha): July, 2003 Guardian 2001 March & April/May An Claid Moohr 2002 March-April An Claid Moohr 2001 March, April and June Scroll 2000 August Eskalya Chronicle 2001 March, April, July, October & November Eskalya Chronicle 2002 February & June Eskalya Chronicle 2003 March, May, and September Eskalya Chronicle 2007 and 2012 Summer Guardian of Oertha 1995 March-April Guardian 1995 October Eskalya Chronicle Scanned in January, 2025: 1996 March & April Eskalya Chronicle 1983 January, March, April, May, June & July Chronicle (! BIG ISSUES !) 1981 October Chronicle 1982 January, February and March (33 pages!) Chronicle 1982 April, October (Proposed Laws for the Principality of Oertha!), and December Chronicles 1984 March, June and September Chronicles 1987 February Gatekeeper 2000 Spring, Summer and Fall Filum Aurem (Needleworkers Guild) 2015 Summer Guardian 1981 August, September, October, November Gatekeepers 1982 February, April, May, July, August, September Gatekeepers 1982 October, November and December Gatekeeper 1983 February, April, May, June, August, September, October and December Gatekeepers 1984 January, February and March Gatekeepers 1997 April, May, September, Summer Scrolls 1998 February, April/May, Spring, September, October, Scrolls 1978 May and 1979 September Eskalya Heralds 1996 January, February, September & October An Claid Moohrs 1998 August An Claid Moohrs 1999 December An Claid Moohr 1996 November & December, 1997 January, February and March An Claid Moohrs 1997 June and October & 1998 March and April, September, October, November & December An Claid Moohrs! 1998 June & July An Claid Moohrs! 1999 May & June An Claid Moohrs! 1981 September, 1982 January, May & August, and 1983 June Soundings! 1984 March, April, May, June, July, August and December Soundings! 1996 October, 1997 December Soundings. 1996 July-August, September, October, & November Soundings! (Done for now!) On no! There's MORE! (Found another Tote) February, 2025 Scans: 1999 Oertha on Tap - Brewers Guild newsletters Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec. 2003 July Scroll, 1992 August Gatekeeper 1982 December, 1984 September and November Soundings! 1996 December Chronicle pages 5-6 (which were missing from first scan) 1994 June An Claid Moohr 1990 December and 1991 February & May Chronicle I'm looking at a pile of about 55 unscanned Eskalya Chronicles! Yee! And a Bunch of Soundings, then lots of other random stuff. THE GUARDIAN OF OERTHA The Gatekeeper of the Barony of Winter's Gate The Chronicle of the Barony of Eskalya (See also the Herald) The Herald of the Shire of Eskalya (Early Years partly concurrent with the Chronicle) Paw Prints of the Riding of Beast Valley The Sounding of the Barony and Shire of Earngyld An Claid Moohr of the Canton Inbhir na Da' Abhann The Scroll of the Shire of Silviergard The Sea Scroll of the Shire of Grey Cliffs The Crier of the Shire of Hrafnafjorðr The Dragon Tale of the Barony of Silviergard Other Publications and non Oerthan Newsletters: Oertha on Tap - Oerthan Brewer's Guild Vive La Plume - Calligraphy Newsletter of the North The Mud Puppy Newsletter of the Barony of Settmour Swamp (East Kingdom) Filum Aureum Newsletter West Kingdom Needleworkers Guild No known newsletters for the branches: St. Boniface, Ynys Taltraeth, Bjarnarstrond, or St. Guinefort Link to West Kingdom Newsletters on the History Page! If you're an author or past chronicler, and an article you've written appears in these archives and you don't wish it to be there, contact me and I'll remove it. HUGE THANK YOU TO Morgana Elspeth Valija Karl Annora Marja Taran Sorcha Bianca Standards: Each newsletter is scanned in using 'read' order, so in most cases no staples are removed. They are scanned in at 150-200dpi in gray or color as appropriate, cleaned up and repaired if necessary and saved. The personal information like address and phone numbers are removed, and the file reduced to 96dpi and this 'expurgated' version is uploaded (now uploading the scan at 150dpi). Electronic .pdf version are 'as sent' with no expurgating. I hope to eventually display covers and provide an index, but that will take a lot of time. Each newsletter (depending on size, repairs necessary, etc) takes 20 minutes to 1 hour to process. Khevron.com for History & Heraldry of Oertha and much more! To the Principality of Oertha Main Page To the West Kingdom History Page Please visit and submit your recollections about events, reports and photos! To the West Kingdom History Newsletters Page online dating Project started February, A.S. XLV (2011)