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EK Queen's Bardic Champion Scroll

This scroll was painted for the East Kingdom Queen's Bardic Championship in 2018.

Illumination and calligraphy by Millicent Rowan, modeled on Recueil des poésies des troubadours.

Words by Sabine de Kerbriant, based on razos (biographical tributes) about and verses by Guillem de Saint Leidier, Folquet de Marseille, and Peire Vidal (from English translations by William E. Burgwinkle, Razos & Troubadour Songs)

Illumination in Windsor and Newton design gouache.

Paper is faux vellum pergamenata from John Neal Books.

Text:

"Gentles, this song is sent as a messenger

And comes from so courtly a circumstance

That it cannot but bring delight

For it is our fair Queen

Who bids this be heard:

Worth is the source from which good reputation grows

And fine words that never deceive

Sow the seeds of renown.

So much She loves joy and mirth and courtesy

That those who sing their praises

Will be heard and rewarded

Thus the noble [ ]

Is made Her own sworn Bard.

Done at the Royal Bardic Championship in Ostgardr on the feast day of St. Scholastica, A.S. LII"

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