Ronin, Award of the Wolf's Cub, 2019
Aurelia Gabriana, Order of the Laurel, backlog scroll (written in 2015; updated in 2017)
Aurelia Gabriana, Order of the Pelican, 2018
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Æppel Ūp
By Maister Colyne Stewart, October AS 54 (2019)
Talisman Bran’s[1]
| at Brok’s Kaer[2]
grows
The fruit of health[3]
| so fulsome tree’d
Clíodna’s
birds[4]
| eat deep and full
Though locked the gates | of garden pure[5]
From poisons foul | it protects well[6]
In press is crushed | for cider, wine,
Ydromellum[7] |
if done with sweets
So sought by bears | lo, binge we all!
Written in the Anglo-Saxon style
to commemorate a day of apple picking and cider making at the farm of Joffr and
Dubhessa.
Sources
Hooke, Della . Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore
and Landscape.
Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2010. Accessed September 28, 2019
Horn, Peter C. “The Alcoholic Drinks of the Anglo-Saxons” (March 18,
2011).
Tha Engliscan Gesiðas https://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/archives/the-alcoholic-drinks-of-the-anglo-saxons
accessed October 3, 2019
Levick, Ben, and Uzzell, Hazel. “Food
and Drink” (1992; 2001). Regia Anglorum https://regia.org/research/life/food.htm
accessed October 3, 2019
Thomas, Kate H. “Comparing æppla and oranges: Anglo-Saxon fruit” (August
3, 2016). For the Wynn. https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/comparing-aeppla-and-oranges-anglo-saxon-fruit/
accessed October 3, 2019
[1] A
reference to ‘The Voyage of Bran,’ a medieval Irish tale.
[2]
Kaer Brok is the name of their farm, and means “castle of the badger”.
[3]
The Anglo-Saxon’s used the apple as a cure for many ailments.
[4] Clíodna
is an Irish faerie, the queen of the banshees. She is attended by birds who are
known to eat apples.
[5]
The forbidden fruit in the biblical story of the Garden of Eden is often
depicted as an apple.
[6]
One of the many medicinal uses of the apple in Anglo-Saxon times was a cure for
poison.
[7] A
form of cider that is fermented with honey.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Appointment of Bailiff, Manor of Colyesburg, 2019
To all faithful in Ealdormere to whom the present writing
shall come, Colyne Stewart of Colynesburg say greeting in the Name of the Wolf.
As it was the prerogative of the Crown of the North, in the personage of Siegfried
II and Xristina, to bestow upon me, the said Colyne, rights to the lands of
Colynesburg called in the vernacular Drews End, to hold in feu and heritage
with all its just perinents, as contained by the King's Highway to the north,
thence west and south along the Crossroad Creek, thence east along coast till
it comes to the Royal Forrest of Beaton, thence north over the fen back to the
King's Highway. Such lands were granted
to my personage, whole, free and undisturbed in perpetuity, without any kind of
subjection, service claim or demand, with liberty of fishing in the loch and
with liberties in the forest of Beaton. As it is now come a time for myself,
the said Colyne, and his house to pay chevage
to Their Excellencies Septentria and move from Their ancient Ursine
lands to the eastern reaches of the Hare, know ye that I have called upon Her
Excellency Anneke the Furious, to act as my steward, bailiff and reeve and
watch over the entirety of the estate as described above in my absence, and I
ennoble her to oversee and collect from any lands, tenements, rents, reversions
and services, with their appurtenances, of the manor of Colynesburg. In witness
whereof to this present writing, I, the aforesaid Colyne have put my seal.
Given on the feast of Margaret Pole, in the 1st month of the reign
of Roak Khan and Hyrrokin Khan Begam and 24 years since the Proscription .
Based on Quitclaim of
lands and Arms by Walter Haywode To John Fromond (12 March 1402/3).
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Taking a Break
I, Maister Colyne Stewart, am departing these lands on a pilgrimage, one from which I may not return. I have asked the scribes of my ethereal library to maintain these archives, for now at least.
I wish you all good journeys.
I wish you all good journeys.
Monday, September 10, 2018
Colyne's Pelican Elevation Ceremony
This ceremony was written by Magistra Nicolaa de Bracon.
Notes: The
poetry is based on a passage from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The rest of
the ceremony is based on the induction ceremony for the Order of the Golden
Fleece, translated by Ursula
Georges from the
fifteenth-century Chronique of
Jean le Fevre, Toison d'Or King of Arms.
Wording for my Pelican Scroll
To all Ealdormere's faithful people who shall see these
letters, Siegfried, King and Xristina Queen, in the presence of Our noble and
powerful Dukes and Duchess, Counts, Earls and Countesses, Barons and
Baronesses, Masters, Laurels, Pelicans,
Knights and their squires, ladies and lords, and all in the future as well as
the present, We greet you on this Feast of the Annunciation this 25th day in
the month of March in the 51st
year of our society, in our beloved lands of Caldrithig, a place
suitable and convenient for this.
We will and do grant by these Letters Patent, for us, our
heirs and successors, with the common advice, assent and consent of many
nobles, including Our beloved companions of the Order of the Pelican, giving with sincere intent, induction unto Colyne Stewart into the Order
of the Pelican, for he has performed exemplary and long-standing service to
Canton, Barony and Kingdom as historian, scribe and officer, always as one who
provides an example of courtesy worthy of emulation. We do create and advance him to the title and
degree of Maister of the most noble Order of the Pelican, to be in all places
of honor numbered a Peer of Our Realm, with all right, privileges, insignia,
precedence, and responsibilities thereto appertaining. We affirm by these Letters Patent his right
to bear the arms per pale gules and argent, a fox rampant counterchanged. In
token whereof, We grant him the privilege of displaying above his shield, in
whole or in part, the achievement proper to the Order: to wit, a cap of
maintenance gules trimmed argent plumetty gules, the whole goutty de sang.
We wishing to recognize his devotion and goodwill and on
account of such faithful service and loyalty
do establish by this his present
charter, to Colyne Stewart, that land called in the vernacular Drews
End, to hold of him in feu and heritage
with all its just perinents, as contained by the King's Highway to the north,
thence west and south along the
Crossroad Creek , thence east along coast
till it comes to the Royal Forrest of Beaton , thence north over the fen
back to the King's Highway. Such lands
shall belong to our ally and friend, whole, free and undisturbed in perpetuity,
without any kind of subjection, service claim or demand, with liberty of
fishing in the loch and with liberties in the forest of Beaton. And wheresoever any letters, charters, deeds
or instruments may be discovered bearing upon obligations, conventions and
compacts of this nature, We will that they be deemed cancelled, invalid, of no
effect and void, and of no value or moment.
If any, however, should try, against Our wishes, to harm
this charter, through the spite of oppressive covetousness, may they, falling
down to the swirling masses of noisome darkness, be cursed, into everlasting
fire, where they may be tormented in a cruel punishment by demons with heated
iron instruments of torture if they do not change this before their death with
appropriate penitence.
That the certainty of foreknowing may give true and clear
remembrance of the past and to that it
is forever to be known, this shall be executed in manuscript and be proclaimed in the Barony of Caldrithig
bearing the seal of the Crown, together with the seals of the Ducal house of Arrochar.
Dated this 25th of the month of March in the
51st year of our society in
the reign of Siegfried and Xristina.
Wording by Her Grce, Duchess Adrielle Kerrec.
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