Song Zidie
(For alternate personas see Alternate Persona: Ozme van Helist and Alternate Persona: Sancia de Salazar)
Pronunciation
sewn dzz-deeyeh (all syllables have the same emphasis)
Persona
Song-niang [pronunced as “sewn”] is a Han Chinese woman trained the arts of music, dance, and poetry. She was born near the end of the Tang dynasty in Huazhou (華州, in modern day Shaanxi) on the first day of the seventh month in the fourth year of Qianning (乾寧四年七月初一, by modern reckoning the 6th of August, 897 A.D.), during the first reign of Emperor Zhaozong. Her family was in the capital city of Chang’an (長安, modern day Xi’an) when the emperor was assassinated, and in the political aftermath she lost her family and was displaced to the eastern city of Luoyang (洛阳) and later further south into the peninsula of Leizhou (雷州).
Whereabouts
Song Zidie currently resides in the Canton of Caldrithig, within Barony of Skraeling Althing
Heraldry
- Banner: Argent, a polypus within an orle sable. [preferred display method: on a rectangle]
Alternate Persona: Ozme van Helist
This persona may be played during the Fall and Winter seasons.
Pronunciation
OZ-mah fan HAY-leest
Persona
Vrouwe Ozme is a lesser noblewoman of English-Flemish descent living in the late-15th century. She is the oldest of four daughters, a devout Catholic woman, and a married mother of three. Her family home is a small manor farm outside of Bruges. Sheep are raised for wool on their lands.
Heraldry
- Arms: Vert, on an altar Or an alder vert. [Preferred display method: on a lozenge] (Helist is thought to be the old name for the modern town of Elst, in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is known for Roman temples, and the word “elst” is a German cognate of Dutch “els”, meaning “alder”.)
- Badge: (Fieldless) A zule Or enfiling a Bourchier knot purpure.
Alternate Persona: Sancia de Salazar
This persona may be played during the Fall and Winter seasons.
Pronunciation
SAHN-tseeah day sah-lah-ZAHR
Persona
Sancia is a young Jewish woman living in 11th century northern Spain. Her father is a winemaker.
Offices and Appointments
Current Office
- Song currently holds no offices.
Past Office
Past Appointment
- Bearer of the Great Chalice of Skraeling Althing - A.S. L
SCA History
First event - Feast of the Hare A.S. XLVIII (November 2, 2013)
Interests
Awards
- Award of Orion - September 19, 2015
- Award of Arms - November 8th, 2014
- Bunny Tail - February 22nd, 2014
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