A 13th c. Northumbrian lady
I am excited about participating in the SCA’s A&S50 Challenge. For more information on the Challenge you can check out the website. and if you like what you see join the Yahoo group. I will be doing the Persona Challenge. You can see my entries under the category “A&S 50 Challenge,” appropriately enough. The Challenge… Continue Reading A&S 50 Challenge
An Irish conachlonn in praise of an Irish knight by Caitlin Christiana Wintour The Knight of Eire sails far away Away from Eire his native home Home green and mountains fair Far from home Killian sails from Eire Eire of the rolling hills Hills of iron cold and voices strange Strange voices in the wind.… Continue Reading The Knight of Eire Sails Far: Sir Killian Mac Taggart
Per bend azure and argent, an eagle striking Or and a cedar of Lebanon proper “A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar” (Ezekiel 17:3) The Eagle rends and dark hawk falls to ground; Sharp talons rip once-Aten… Continue Reading Lament for the Great Heart: Sir Jamal Damien Marcus
1089. December 30. I have heard a tale, and such a tale it was! I will write a poor song from it but I must finish it later for I have neglected my duties long enough. Here is its beginning but not its end. Wealthy was Thorhall when winter struck fast the fruitful glades of… Continue Reading Journal Entry: Tale of Glam
1098. October 12. My steward Erik has brought back a leechbook* for me from Yorvik that he says he got by way of a priest. I am glad of it for the aelfcynne [elves] that dwell under the wheat field are making a misery to the harvesters and so I told him. Here is one… Continue Reading Journal Entry: Elves in the Wheatfield