Blessed be and welcome to my webpage!

I have been a street character at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival since 1989. Before that, I was a patron for about 10 years. Then, with encouragement from my children and the Mayor of the faire shire, I finally auditioned at the ripe old age of 38.

My first character, Victoria Belardi, was a merchant class widow dealing in the procurement of fabrics and other fine goods for the Royalty. The following two years, being from Minnesota, we noticed that the Scandinavians were not being represented in our village. Two friends and I developed a group called Vasa's Daughters. Part of those characters were based on the true history of Sweden. Vasa was the first elected king of Sweden. We found that he had 3 sons, but no mention of any female offspring. From there, Vilma, Volga and Velda Vasa were born! The triplets (identical except for her), were sent to this festival by their father to find suitable husbands since we were a bit past the marriageable age of 13. Okay, okay, WELL past that age! I was Velda - the most intelligent, most comely, most stable of the bunch! (I'm sure my sisters disagree with this, but what do they know?) Much fun and merriment was had by them finding male patrons to test for the positions and to accept the Marriage Contract. One of our tests was to be able to fit into our specially made family jewels codpiece. Wives and girlfriends loved having their significant others embarrassed with the bejeweled piece! Our first year as Vasa's we even were nominated for "Most Improved Veterans". After Velda Vasa, I became Rosalily Bud-a peasant with lofty ideas and an attitude. She has been with me since 1992.

One of her favorite things to be part of is "Vilification Tennis".  That is a game that somewhat has the rules of tennis and we hurl insults over a "net" of peasants to our opponents. Some of the insults get quite bawdy, but the crowds seem to love it.

 

In these pages, I have some of my favorite pictures (including my own Renfest wedding), my list of insults, my own personal poetry, Minnesota Renaissance Festival information, Rosalily's Ramblings-a collection of fun/silly lists and jokes, and links to other favorite sites.

 

Please let me know how you like these pages. Blessings!

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