Ixac ben Simone - Writ for Pelican

Magnificent Majesties Oliver and Grainne of Æthelmearc, make morning’s mists melt and the sun move through midday to this mellifluous moment. 

A moment memorializing how Ixac models manner in mindfulness as Baron for many months, with more waiting to materialize, as the Minister and manager of Our land-mass of Delftwood. 

If there’s a free moment, as affirmed by the masses, he becomes motivated, and thus molds his muscles to help move matériel anywhere it needs must be.

Today is but a moment in the meadows and moors of the Shire of Steltonwald, as he’s embraced by members of Our Order Pelican. 

This moment has been put in motion this day, May, the 16th, AS 61, Our machinations motivated from Our mouths to mandate, at an impending time, as yet unsaid.  Moreover unto Ixac ben Simone We say:

    There once was a man from Æthelmearc    

    Whose service has achieved a benchmark  

    We’ll have the most fun

    Asking a question

    And getting answered on this remark

Word Count 164

Calligraphy by Jonathan Blaecstan

Photo by Amalie Reinhardt

KEY 
-Alliteration
Alliteration
Mid-Word Alliteration
- Limerick 
Rhyme Pattern:
AABBA 
Syllable count:
A9 
B5 

Magnificent Majesties Oliver and Grainne of Æthelmearc, make morning’s mists melt and the sun move through midday to this mellifluous moment. 

A moment memorializing how Ixac models manner in mindfulness as Baron for many months, with more waiting to materialize, as the Minister and manager of Our land-mass of Delftwood.

If there’s a free moment, as affirmed by the masses, he becomes motivated, and thus molds his muscles to help move matériel anywhere it needs must be.

Today is but a moment in the meadows and moors of the Shire of Steltonwald, as he’s embraced by members of Our Order Pelican. 

This moment has been put in motion this day, May, the 16th, AS 61, Our machinations motivated from Our mouths to mandate, at an impending time, as yet unsaid.  Moreover unto Ixac ben Simone We say:

9A There once was a man from Æthemearc

9A Whose service has achieved a benchmark  

5B We’ll have the most fun

5B Asking a question

9A And getting answered on this remark

Though this BLOG be madness, yet there is

method in ’t

-Hamlet - Act 2, scene 2

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Photo by Amalie Reinhardt

Photo by Amalie Reinhardt
Facepalm moment: The recipient realized the alliteration!

Photo by Amalie Reinhardt

Writ from the Incipient Shire of Midland Vale

By our steadfast heart, skills of hand, and strength of arm we, þe incipient shire of Midland Vale, pledge our service, our artistry, and our prowess to þe Known Worlde, to the Kingdom of the East and to þe Throne þat shines upon us all.
To þe sovereign Omega and glorious Etheldreda do we, your subjects, humbly bid you welcome to our inaugural Tourney of þe Daffodils.  We ask þat you receive þese gifts, representing our clout, vigor, and fealty.
Done þis day, April 25th. Anno Societatis XLIX

Wordcount 88

Words and Illumination by me

Calligraphy by Æsa Sturludottr

Spring is here A-suh-puh-ring is here Life is skittles and life is BLOG

This was the first scroll I had attempted since my health crisis and time in the hospital.  The Seneschal of Midland Vale was preparing a gift for the King and Queen to be presented at our first event and I thought that a writ would be a nice accompaniment.  

Since the stroke and heart transplant, I have found that writing and drawing became exponentially difficult.  As such this was a large undertaking for myself on many different levels.
The first thing I did was to enlist the help of Æsa Sturludottr.  I knew that calligraphy was beyond the current skills of my hands.  Calligraphy has always been difficult for me.  I don’t write so much as I draw my letters.  So I can make beautiful letters and any size as needed, but to sit there with a quill in hand and make letters come out seems beyond my skill.
After the stroke, writing in general became extremely difficult.  Calligraphy was impossible.   I wasn’t even going to attempt it.  Æsa kindly agreed to do the calligraphy for the scroll for me.

Based on Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne  by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 and 1508 As my inspiration piece.

Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne Bourdichon, Jean (1457 ?-1521)

We were doing the Tourney of the Daffodils, after all.

I feel that I captured the feel of the piece if not the clean lines that it had.  I also omitted the animals.  I wanted to focus on the daffodils.

During the creating process I remembered about a dozen helpful hints and tricks that many artists use, of course after I could have used the tricks.  For example a good way to get a straight edge when working in such a manner is to lay down masking tape directly onto the paper, paint over it and then pull up the tape.  This, hypothetically, should leave one with a clean, crisp line.  And I was about halfway done before I remembered the trick.

I handed it to Æsa,  who not only did a magnificent job on the calligraphy, she cleaned up some of the edges that I could not.  I had given her permission to actually change the images and I am very glad that she did.  She ended up cleaning up some of the spots that most upset me when I was working on it.

This is not my best piece by far, but for what it represents it will always be important to me.  It was about getting myself back into the game of illuminating. I was also glad to be presenting it to Omega and Etheldreida.  These rulers in particular are special to me for a variety of reasons, first and foremost being that they gave me my Award of Arms.

Presented to TRM at the First Tourney of the Daffodils East Kingdom Gazette: Unofficial Court Report The Tourney of Daffodils

(Does not appear in the Gazette)