Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Virginia Medieval re-enactor fatally impales self with lance
ABC ^ | Oct 10, 2018

Posted on 10/10/2018 9:35:43 AM PDT by Gamecock

A Medieval knight re-enactor has impaled himself with his lance during a performance and died.

News outlets report 53-year-old Peter Barclay, of Virginia, was competing in an equestrian game in Williamstown, Kentucky, when he was wounded Saturday. Barclay's brother and the president of event holder Society for Creative Anachronism, John Fulton, says Barclay was trying to spear a paper plate on the ground.

Fulton says in a Facebook post that the metal-tipped lance hit the ground and flipped, stabbing Barclay's chest. He says Barclay, who performed under the name "Master Terafan Greydragon," died while being flown to a hospital.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: cosplay; godsgravesglyphs; holdmuhmead; isolatedincidents; kentucky; medieval; middleages; paperplate; peterbarclay; reenactor; rip; terafangreydragon; unngh; virginia; williamstown
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last
To: ClearCase_guy

I heard one translation of “petard” was “fart”.

Of course for some, they might be both explosion and fart.


21 posted on 10/10/2018 10:39:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: crusadersoldier; Atticus

Thanks...We all should keep in mind this fellow was a man with a family.

As incongruous as his death is, we shouldn’t inject humor into it.

I fall prey to it on occasion.


22 posted on 10/10/2018 10:41:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: rlmorel
Hey you! I see what you did there. :)

The foliage here, is just past peak, but still so beautiful.


23 posted on 10/10/2018 10:46:24 AM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: fruser1

24 posted on 10/10/2018 10:48:53 AM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

I know... Too bad you can’t unsend. I also regret being flippant about the loss of that man’s life.


25 posted on 10/10/2018 10:50:05 AM PDT by jimmygrace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

“Master Terafan Greydragon,”

Master Terafan Deaddragon.


26 posted on 10/10/2018 10:51:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

“A petard was an explosive device.”

Yes originally, but in common usage has come to be a figure of speech that means anything that does someone in by their own foibles.


27 posted on 10/10/2018 10:54:00 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Gamecock

28 posted on 10/10/2018 10:59:18 AM PDT by crusadersoldier
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hatteras

“Awful way to die, sincere prayers to the gentleman’s family.”

Sort of like Steve Irwin catching a stingray barb through his wishbone.


29 posted on 10/10/2018 11:00:56 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: pepsi_junkie

“It must have been horrifying for the spectators.”

It was more horrifying for the victim.


30 posted on 10/10/2018 11:04:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: pepsi_junkie

“It must have been horrifying for the spectators.”

It was more horrifying for the victim.


31 posted on 10/10/2018 11:04:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: pepsi_junkie

“It must have been horrifying for the spectators.”

It was more horrifying for the victim.


32 posted on 10/10/2018 11:04:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Jakarta ex-pat

“More people die playimg golf than than any other sport!”

Heart attacks and golf cart drunk driving.


33 posted on 10/10/2018 11:07:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Daffynition

Heya Daffynition-Good to hear from you, hope all is well up there...:)

I was up in Maine last week, and it didn’t look nearly as nice as your back yard!


34 posted on 10/10/2018 11:22:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: rlmorel

This is terrible. What a loss of a fine man.


35 posted on 10/10/2018 11:23:40 AM PDT by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: squarebarb

Agreed, and it is probably not a stretch to say (even if it does sound hackneyed) that he died doing what he loved, and had provided a good deal of enjoyment and entertainment to a lot of people.


36 posted on 10/10/2018 11:25:39 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

If you want to reenact Knights wouldn’t you go to England or France or someplace that they actually had Knights?


37 posted on 10/10/2018 11:31:50 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Clutch Martin
"If you want to reenact Knights wouldn’t you go to England or France or someplace that they actually had Knights?"

Believe it or not, there are pockets of US Civil War reenactors in Europe.

38 posted on 10/10/2018 11:34:40 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: crusadersoldier

Thanks for letting me know. I have lost many SCA friends so please send along my condolences to his family.


39 posted on 10/10/2018 12:24:44 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: rjsimmon

Will do. Its been a rough few years for the SCA in that regard.


40 posted on 10/10/2018 1:20:05 PM PDT by crusadersoldier
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson