Yes, the wording was for "that Eydis" who also happens to be a friend of mine and fellow Dancing Lady. She was given her AoA by Brennan and Caoilfhionn on April 9th at the coronation of their heirs.
Marieta did a lovely craving based on the Osberg ship that featured intertwined cats. For a lovely viking lady who happens to be a bard, I took a stab at skaldic style poetry. I didn't have a lot of time to research how to phrase or set up sections of the poetry or to see if there were actually set "rules" for writing skaldic poems. That will be part of my "to do" list when I take another stab at this.
This is my first attempt at this type of poetry. Copious amounts of looking at text from rune stones happened and Googling Norse gods/patrons. Bygul and Trigul are the names of Freya's cats that pulled her chariot.
"Fierce Caoilfhionn and wise Brennan called their people to hear their word. On this day of Eostre’s pride, winter wanes and the skald’s words are known to all:
Thorgrim’s daughter, fair Eydis
Friend of Bygul and Trigul kin.
Bragi-favored skald, gifts wordfame to the north.
Ring givers Brennan and Caoilfhionn
Honor and arms to her proclaim."
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Award of Arms - Aine
Like a complete doof, I forgot to take a picture of this scroll.
This assignment was an AoA with very little info to help construct words and find an inspirational manuscript. I did some digging on OSCAR and found that her name and badge are going through commentary. Her byname "Fháeláin"was a dead give away that perhaps....maybe... this person likes wolves (gee, how would I know that one?) and there were wolves on her proposed device.
A lot of medieval pictures of wolves I've found involve wolves harassing sheep and attacking people. Could I just fine one that says "Hey, I'm wolf! Look how cool I am!"? Nope. I did find this gem though and decided to use it a source material. I used the first panel of the story for the illumination.
Recipient: Aine ingen Fháeláin
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: gothic (second attempt at a gothic hand)
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
When I first started looking at this I wanted to figure out what the heck was going on in this picture.
1) Why is this wolf blue and looks like a fox? (Now I understand why foxes and wolves conflict in heraldry).
2) Why is there a wolf in an acorn cap receiving a host? (host being the Eucharist wafer)
3) Why is the other wolf wearing a St. Bernard whiskey cask? Is it a traveling tabernacle? Where the heck did it come from? Does the priest know the wolf possibly stole a tabernacle and is wearing it around his neck?
The story going on here (from what I can tell from various sources) tells of a priest of Ulster traveling through the forest when he is approached by a male wolf at his camp. Some versions have this as a friendly and good werewolf instead of a normal wolf. Wikipedia (in all it's peer created wiki glory) says that this was a man who was curse to live as a werewolf for seven years and as a man for another seven (with his wife curse the same way). Either way, our heroic wolf seeks the aid of the priest to cure (or administer last rites to) his mate. He leads the priest through the woods back to their den where the she-wolf is resting. The priest then gives her a host and she's either cured of her sickness (as she's a normal wolf) or I guess she dies (as she's a dying, but good, werewolf).
There are a few variations of this story as I mentioned above, but I prefer the version of the noble wolf who was just looking for help for his mate and in turn helped the priest get through the scary forest with weird trees unscathed. Wolves are awesome like that (in my own biased opinion). ;)
The idea of a wolf helping someone is what led me to choose this illumination as a source material. The text I wrote is short but sweet.
(text to be added later)
This assignment was an AoA with very little info to help construct words and find an inspirational manuscript. I did some digging on OSCAR and found that her name and badge are going through commentary. Her byname "Fháeláin"was a dead give away that perhaps....maybe... this person likes wolves (gee, how would I know that one?) and there were wolves on her proposed device.
A lot of medieval pictures of wolves I've found involve wolves harassing sheep and attacking people. Could I just fine one that says "Hey, I'm wolf! Look how cool I am!"? Nope. I did find this gem though and decided to use it a source material. I used the first panel of the story for the illumination.
Recipient: Aine ingen Fháeláin
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: gothic (second attempt at a gothic hand)
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
When I first started looking at this I wanted to figure out what the heck was going on in this picture.
1) Why is this wolf blue and looks like a fox? (Now I understand why foxes and wolves conflict in heraldry).
2) Why is there a wolf in an acorn cap receiving a host? (host being the Eucharist wafer)
3) Why is the other wolf wearing a St. Bernard whiskey cask? Is it a traveling tabernacle? Where the heck did it come from? Does the priest know the wolf possibly stole a tabernacle and is wearing it around his neck?
The story going on here (from what I can tell from various sources) tells of a priest of Ulster traveling through the forest when he is approached by a male wolf at his camp. Some versions have this as a friendly and good werewolf instead of a normal wolf. Wikipedia (in all it's peer created wiki glory) says that this was a man who was curse to live as a werewolf for seven years and as a man for another seven (with his wife curse the same way). Either way, our heroic wolf seeks the aid of the priest to cure (or administer last rites to) his mate. He leads the priest through the woods back to their den where the she-wolf is resting. The priest then gives her a host and she's either cured of her sickness (as she's a normal wolf) or I guess she dies (as she's a dying, but good, werewolf).
There are a few variations of this story as I mentioned above, but I prefer the version of the noble wolf who was just looking for help for his mate and in turn helped the priest get through the scary forest with weird trees unscathed. Wolves are awesome like that (in my own biased opinion). ;)
The idea of a wolf helping someone is what led me to choose this illumination as a source material. The text I wrote is short but sweet.
(text to be added later)
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