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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Peace be with all members from Caid Mailing and
the Minstrels' List.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Rumaging through some old e-mails kept in my old
486 PC, I found a message from Caid's Herald, explaining that, since I'm the
only person in contact with SCA here in my contry, Brazil, I could choose a
tentative name to my land, not an official one, for we must be at least five
people to establish a enclave here. I've been calling my land "Terra
Brasilis" (something like The Land of Brazil) as a lark, but now I've got
an idea. I summon the learned folk from Caid Mailing and the gifted
members of the Minstrels' List who live in the four corners of the Knowne World
to help me choose my land's very first name in the SCA tradition which has
already rendered such strong and musical names as Calafia, Ansteorra, Falconis
Turris, Moon Draconis and so many others. Even though it won't be
official, it can be used by us all until an official name is chosen by those who
gather here. I give you my word I'll advocate the name we choose to be
officialized. I can't garantee it will, but I promise it will stand a
better chance than any other. This way, I won't feel so lonely and
separated from SCA here in South America. A little explanation for those
interested: as we're taught in elementary school, "Brazil" (written in
Portuguese with an s - Brasil) come's from the Portuguese word "brasa"
(ember) and was the name of a now almost extinct kind of red wood tree
indigenous to the land, "pau-brasil". Only much later I learned
of the mythical land of Hi Brasil and it's possible influence in the naming of
the country. In friendship,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Glaura Branca Pereyra de Santa Maria, who lives
in a newly discovered country, as yet unamed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The honor is to
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