[Northkeep] Feeling Boastful?

[Manners, Tabitha]

I need a LIKE button for this.  It is wonderful and I agree.  ;)  Thank you, Kelandra, for being amazing teacher, friend, and inspiration.  

Ian, I really enjoyed the first one you wrote and would love to respond with a boast of my own, but do not feel my composition skills are up to the task this week.  Too many other things on my mind.

~Liliana 

-----Original Message-----
From: northkeep-bounces+tabitha.manners=okstate.edu at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:northkeep-bounces+tabitha.manners=okstate.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Jerry & Teresa
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:54 PM
To: 'The Barony of Northkeep'
Subject: [Northkeep] Feeling Boastful?

Kelandra is away teaching her students about Bede's saga of Beowulf. One of
her best tactics employed to draw their eager minds into the ideals of the
work is to mimic the hero of the Geats by boasting about themselves. In good
fun I thought to surprise her and so I wrote some boasts of my own...not
about me but her. What follows are my words hear them and now the lady I
love.

 

Who is she

She is the humble clerk and keeper of tomes. 

By her duty and gracious deeds all the language of our land is learned,

She is the forger of poems and prose, 

Through her works page and apprentice come to craft all manner of treatise 

She is skald and tutor to the heirs of our future

By the fruits of her field is knowledge sown and reaped

She is the book-wife, wordsmith, and mistress of Lore

Who is she

She is.The English Teacher!

 

...

 

Key-holder and Flame-tender 

She is mistress of my home and hearth and all that it entails

Heart-winner and ring-wearer

Sole beauty before mine eyes and lone inspiration to my every deed

Hearth-keeper and bed-warmer

She is what sends me out to a day's work and calls me home when it is done

Bond-oath, life's-love, and lady of my Heart

She is my all and my everything.My Wife.

 

...

 

So now you have heard my words and she who Kelandra is known to you.  Thus
bards or any who feel brave and bold like a hero of old I set before this
challenge bring your best boast here to this forum and let us see thy
mettle.

 

Most Kindly

Ian

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