Posted by Trond Ivar Hansen, Head Secretary Of The Special State Office Of Nomads on July 10, 1997 at 17:33:37:
In Reply to: Re: Upprättandet av en riddarorden posted by Count Torby on July 09, 1997 at 16:54:31:
: : Högt ärade medgorgare,
: : jag är djupt indignerad av alla terroristattacker
: : mot våra parlamentsbyggnader och har den starka
: : övertygelsen att angripelserna har nått den grad
: : där man bör sätta hårt mot hårt. Naturligtvis är
: : jag väl medveten om Ladoniens fredssträvanden och det
: : är med anledning av detta som jag anhåller om att få
: : upprätta en relativt fredlig riddarorden i hennes
: : majestät Drottningen av Ladonias namn. Pax vobiscum.
: : Greve Patrice de Jabet
:
: Detta måste tas upp till omröstning i kabinettet.
: Hälsningar från Count Torby
What a magnificent idea!
It´s so good that it could almost have been my own.
I strongly support this idea, and I look forward, with great interest,
in the development and outcome of this idea.
Actually I´ve found traces
in our historical recordings of a knight´s order which went under the name of:
"Eye of the blackbird" ("svarttrost" in norwegian, "Koltrast" in swedish, Strindberg called it "Solsvarten" (sunblack)).
It seems the blackbird were a newcomer in the nordic lands at that time,
and that Ladonian territory were the first soil which it landed on.
I have not had any luck in establishing the excact year when this occured,
but my department is busy right now with comparing our archives with the archives
of other nordic countries.
(I hope I´m excused if using the term "Other nordic countries" is offensive to anyone).
In modern time there has been another knight´s order established by
7 boy scouts on the Ladonian shore, 11th of june in the year 1931.
They called themeselves "The protectors of the alphabet",
and took on secret identities like: A, B, C and so on.
They seem to have taken special interest in the letter "L".
There are records of them during WWII,
when they smuggled coffee over to the occupied nation of Norway.
After the war all tracks of them are lost.
This was a small note of support and information
from Trond Ivar Hansen,
Head secretary of the special state office of nomads,
under the excellent department of history.
Magister mundi sum