[Elfsea] Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio

[Julie Self]

VIVAT! to two gracious ladies!!!!
Gwenllian


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>To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org, elfsea at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Elfsea] Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio
>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:45:59 EST
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>To All Good Gentles:
>
>I wish bring to the attention of the populace an act of grace and
>generosity
>which exhibits all that is good and true in this, the current Middle Ages.
>A
>woman who has been many things in and for our Barony and who, with her
>lord,
>was chosen by the opinion of its populace to lead.  A woman who has taken
>the
>cloak of resposibilities of the barony and born it through hardship and
>happines, through child bearing and new motherhood.  A woman who has lead
>by
>grace and by example.
>
>To all, I proclaim that in a selfless act of kindness, she has exemplified
>grace.  To all, I wish to let it be known that, while acknowledging this
>humble artisan in court, Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio, she did
>hand unto me a Sable Thistle for the art of bone carving, which with comes
>a
>scroll and a badge of honor.  And when this humble servant was gifted with
>this badge, I did let the gracious Baroness know that this badge she handed
>me, I had crafted.  Joyous was I, for this was a the best of all I had
>gifted
>this fine Barony and for which I was proud to bear and wear as a double
>meaning, for this too was made in bone.  Yet, the generous Baroness in her
>greatnes, did take from her own person her own Thistle.  A Thistle of great
>beauty.  A Thistle crafted by the Master Aethelstan.   A Thistle crafted in
>the colors of gold and silver and ringed by eight blue stones.  A Thistle
>to
>be treasured and worthy of a Baroness, not a humble artisan.  And into my
>hands did she place this, her Thistle of great beauty proclaiming that she
>would wear my Thistle in its place, the bone carved jewel created by this
>aspiring artisan.  So that the Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio did
>honor me 7 times.  First honoring me by giving me an award from her hand
>and
>deeming my work worthy to be called to court and acknowledged.  Second, by
>placing my own work in my hand as an item deemed worthy to acknowledge the
>artisans of this kingdom.  Third, by listening to the joy of this artist
>when
>being told it was my own work.  Fourth, by deciding in the most noble and
>gracious manner to honor me further by gifting me with an object made by a
>hand other than my own.  Fifth, by choosing to gift me with her own
>Thistle,
>rather than requesting another. Sixth, by gifting me with a preciously
>wrought badge worthy of person of station and cunningly wrought by a
>Master.
>And finally, by choosing to honor this humble artist in the greatest
>manner,
>by placing my own handwork around her neck and deeming it worthy to be worn
>by a noble, gracious lady.
>
>So unto the populace do I, Lady Asa Hrafnasdottir, do wish to proclaim that
>Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio, Lady of Loch Ruadh, is a generous
>woman, of courtly grace and beauty, of noble bearing, a mother and a Lady.
>Do I Lady Asa Hrafnasdottir, a humble artist of the Kingdom, wish to
>proclaim
>of this Baroness a Lady of great heart and kindness, a fellow member who
>has
>also born a Thistle, this symbol of accomplishment.  I wish to thank her
>from
>the bottom of my heart for a gift so unexpected and precious.  I am not
>worthy of such a gifting, but hope to become worthy and will strive to do
>my
>best.  And from this day forward, for all who see my badge and ask, I shall
>tell them this tale of honor and of the kind and gracious lady who gave it
>to
>me.
>
>Vivat Baroness Allessandra Beatrice Desiderio
>Vivat Lady of Loch Ruadh
>Vivat Elfsea
>VIVAT ANSTEORRA!
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