>From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
>
>So this is intended as general celebration among
>people who already know them, rather than the
>introduction by means of an oral CV that's Greg's
>described?
I think that the modern analogue for what Greg described would be Public Relations. Advertising for the individual. And, though Greg says that it's not about lying (you might be called on something at some point), I'm sure that boasting is to some extent about adding "spin" to the description of things to make them seem perhaps more impressive than if they were described another way.
Thus a Heortling who once fled from a number of Broo might say, "I am he who once lead an army of Broo on a merry chase through the northlands, distracting them from the tula, and thus protecting all within."
Presentation is everything.
Mike
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