A 13th c. Northumbrian lady
by Caitlin Christiana Wintour A poem after Taliesin’s “In Praise of Tenby” There is a fair fort upon the wide sea; Dwell here memories, shadows tinged with light moving at the edges of our sight. Here waits Conrad von Regensburg, premiere baron of a newly risen barony. He is alone at first, but then there… Continue Reading There Is a Fair Fort: In Memory of the Lords of Lyondemere
Fabric stash, I mean. How is it that I have gobs of fabric and can’t figure out a single thing to do with any of it? All right, I exaggerate. But right now I have a dining chair piled high with fabric. I am trying to decipher what fabric and design will go best for… Continue Reading The Horror of the Stash
The capital of Northumbria is York. Many crafts are represented there: leather-working including a large tannery, the working of jet, amber, iron, lead, copper alloy, gold and silver; also of glass, bone and antler; and turning wooden bowls and cups. It is also a center of clothmaking and dyeing. Our looms at Fairhall weave cloth… Continue Reading Journal entry: York
I was married to Erik of Fairhall, whose mother was a Dane and whose father was English. He died 10 years ago. Three days before we were wed, which is to say Easter of 1095, many stars were seen to fall from heaven. Not just one or two, but so many that no one could… Continue Reading Journal entry: Kings
What station or class are you of? Is this the same as the station or class you were born to? Do you have a heraldic device? I am gently born to a median-thegn. My husband Erik was born a ceorl but through his father’s hard work and his, prospered their farm so he was granted… Continue Reading Social structure