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Heresy! 

Tadhg's definition also excludes Rome, Saintiago de Compestella and
Jerusalem! (Not to mention all of the Byzantine Empire, Italy and Spain,
plus most German speaking areas). But, hey, we can live without those
pissant places, they didn't have any effect on people in the Middle
Ages. It's not like people like St. Martin, St. Gregory, Frederick
Barbarossa, Henry IV HRE, Martin Luther, St. Boniface, Dante Aligheri,
Giovanni Boccaccio or Cosimo de Medici came from there or anything.
And nobody borrowed money or bought spices from Italy, silk from
Byzantium or weapons, armor and wine from Germany. And , geez!, we can
don't need no stinking Levant on North Africa to mess up our game.
Afterall, all it has is a bunch of old Greek and Latin manuscripts that
a bunch of silly Arabs preserved from the Roman empire. Oh, yeah, it has
a stupid place called the "Holy Land" but nobody would want to go there
would they? And North Africa's utterly useless, the only person who ever
lived there were St. Augustine of Hippo, and the Vandals, and a bunch of
Arabs who took over Spain and nearly overran Europe. It's not like St.
Louis of France fought in Egypt or anything. I say who needs 'em.

	In fact, I say we restrict the scope of the SCA to just the Aran
Islands. We can all live in a monestary on top of a rock. We'll eat
oatmeal and fish and seaweed and Tadgh can be our Abbot. Now THAT's fun.

	Lothar (who is either in Tadgh's boundry, or out of Tadgh's
boundry, depending on what the Archbishop of Mainz is up to and whether
or not he is at his Lord's court or at his home castle.) 

(This posting has been :) :) 'd for the humor impaired).