Book of Kells

Ruadh-Mairi Asan T'Eilean Sgithenech Court Barony 10/02/04

This scroll was awarded in the East Kingdom on 10/2/04 at the Coronation of Thorvald Halvorsen and Svava Thorgeirsdottir. The scroll is primarily based on the Book of Kells folio 2V: First half of the Second canon in the Eusebian tables. I did take some inspiration from some of the other folios. I changed the christ figure to look more like the recipient and added the coronette above her head. Her arms are in the center circle and I changed the pic above it to resemble her 4 children as anges. I did not get to add the Celtic keys to the other two cirlces nor did I add the blocks to the red triangles above the angels similar to other folios due to a lack of time. The scroll is done on velum with gouache. The wording is done in an Irish poetry format called Rannaicheacht Ghairid. The poem follows the form of a quatrain stanza with uneven lines. The first line has three syllables, the other three have seven. The stanza rhymes a a b a, with a cross-rhyme between lines three and four.

 

Scroll taken with flash
Court Barony with Grant of Arms

Scroll taken without flash
The colors are somewhere in between both pictures

Book of Kells - main inspiration page
2V: First half of the second canon in the Eusebian tables.

I had a little trouble with the last stanza trying to get the year in - you wouldn't say the AS part when reading it aloud - it would be understood. The words on the scroll:

Welcome here, Listen to those that serve us, All who would hear on this day, What We say of this service.

Attend Us, Listen to these mighty words, So that you may know of one, Who has birds and shines like sun.

Pay us heed, For she puts on her blunt hat, Brings food and sorts through paper, Lights taper so We may see,

On this day, Do We seek to honor her, And make her Court Baroness, Nothing less for Ruadh for sure.

So do We, Thorvald King by right of Arms, and Svava most lovely Queen, who are keen on this girls charms.

Make it so, And also grant unto her, The sole right to bear her arms, And no harm shall be done her

We declare, At this Our Coronation, On October the Second , By Our hands this shall be done.

A.S. 39, In this Our great Barony, Of Carolingia here, It is clear that It is done