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All here have known this gentle brow
Inspired with Crown’s golden glow: A toybox for the children’s mirth, The beasts of war all prove her worth; In lands of boar in Ben Dunfirth, A Countess, her new station. The seed was sown, fair Marioun Golightly thrived in winter’s snow. Now Roak King, Hyrrokin Queen, Glad tidings bring and wish it seen, In Northern spring, a Rose serene Blooms at Our Coronation. On Trillium throne Our Will is done; We here proclaim for all to know, This day in A.S. Fifty-Four, The Fourth of May, she stands before Us, thus We say let wolf-kin roar This virtuous declaration. Leatherwork by Mjoll Ulfsdottir with wording by Marie l’Englois, About your scroll... For your scroll, we (Marie and Mjoll) took inspiration from the Mary of Hapsburg gown you wore to several events during your reign. You had specifically requested a shorter text, so the verse format selected was a “Leid”, which was popular in Germany, Austria, and environs during the 12th-16th centuries, appeared in varying forms, and was sometimes also set to music. The Leid for your scroll was specifically modelled on a 15thC Leid by Oswald von Wolkenstein called “Wach auf myn Hort” or “Awake my darling”. The Wolkenstein Leid contains three six-line verses, so your text does as well. Your text also follows the rhyme and meter of the original, both within each individual stanza and also where the original rhyme pattern spans across multiple stanzas. To honour the request for brevity, I (Marie) wanted to ensure all required scroll elements were present within the poem itself, so that there would not be a need for an additional “Done this day” line at the end. Award of Arms for Isis of Storfjordr
Given June 8, 2019 Illumination and Calligraphy by Ekaterina Volkova Words by Baron Brand Thorwaldsen And then Iris of Storfjordr was called to the Khanate in the days of celebration, where sat Roak Khan and Hyrrokin Khan Begam for but a single day as it was Their Coronation, and was elevated to the station of a Lady of the Court for years of service long gone unnoticed. When Iris came to the lands of Ealdormere, the people convened upon her for hospitality, and some did note her as a force to be reckoned with. Tents and pavilions and taverns and camp gates sprung up around her, and it is greatly suspected she had some hand in the greatness of the Northern line when at War in Æthelmarc lands. For this she has our thanks, our seal, and a place in our halls forevermore. So declared the 4th day of May, AS 54. (wording loosely based on wording from The Albanian Chronicle of Mxit’ar Gos, CJF Dowsett, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 21, No 1/3 (1958), p. 472-490) Calligraphy & Illumination by MIstress Aelfwyn Haethort; Wording by Baron Brand Thorwaldsen
Brand's Blog about the wording: http://barenwalde.blogspot.com/2019/05/augmentation-of-arms-nicolaa-de-bracton.html |
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