{"id":1865,"date":"2017-03-03T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbouchard.com\/aneleda\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:15:02","slug":"maunche-albreda-alyese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbouchard.com\/aneleda\/maunche-albreda-alyese","title":{"rendered":"Maunche – Albreda Alyese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quiet, gode people, as we praise a quiet worker,<\/span><\/p>\n

sound the voices from the Eastern thrones.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We call one from whose hands the finest fibers flow,<\/span><\/p>\n

Albreda Aylese, who sets the spear-beam into binding.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

With strong rods does the thread resound for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

The whirring shuttle moves across a sea of strands.<\/span><\/p>\n

The weavers rods her oars, the lozenges her woolen waves,<\/span><\/p>\n

Her songs are ancient, rhythmic ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Her progress passes as many nights<\/span><\/p>\n

as swan-road journeys in the summer.<\/span>
\n<\/span>As snow-hare stands in silent footprint<\/span><\/p>\n

still, she sits, softly guiding sweetest silk.<\/span><\/p>\n

She crafts the pattern, bright or subtle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flowers bloom eternal at her bid.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c6thelstan would blush at such gifts as she gives.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Witness her name weave’d in history<\/span><\/p>\n

as the newest of the Order of the Maunche.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In her heart-home deep in Coldwood,<\/span><\/p>\n

At the Closing of the Inne<\/span><\/p>\n

She is granted arms to bear,<\/span><\/p>\n

Vert, a winged frog salient Or,<\/span><\/p>\n

Whose form soars o’er the warp and weft<\/span><\/p>\n

Away from this lateness of September,<\/span><\/p>\n

on this twenty-fourth day, in Our fifty-first year.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is so done by the hand of King Kenric and Queen Avelina.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n* * * * * * *<\/p>\n

(Calligraphy by Rhonwen Glyn Conwy, Illumination by ______________<\/span><\/p>\n

Text by Aneleda Falconbridge, inspired by the Anglo Saxon riddles of the Exeter Book)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

The inspiration was from Anglo Saxon riddles found in the Exeter Book (and some epic poetry and a little norse-ish prose.)<\/p>\n

37<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>k-d<\/span><\/a> 56) https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Saxon_Riddles_of_the_Exeter_Book\/37<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was in there <\/span><\/i> where I saw something,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

a thing of wood, wound a striving thing,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the moving beam \u2014it received battle wounds,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

deep injuries; <\/span><\/i> spears caused the hurts<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

of this thing; <\/span><\/i> and the wood was fast bound<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

cunningly. <\/span><\/i> One of its feet<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

was stable, fixed; the other worked busily,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

played in the air, sometimes near the ground.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A tree was nearby, that stood there hung<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

with bright leaves. I saw the leavings<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

of the arrow-work brought to my lord<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

where heroes sat over their drinks.<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n

<\/td>\nIc w\u00e6s \u00fe\u00e6r Inne <\/span><\/i> \u00fe\u00e6r ic ane geseah<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

winnende \u00b7 wiht <\/span><\/i> wido bennegean<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

holt hweorfende <\/span><\/i> hea\u00feoglemma feng<\/span><\/i>
\ndeopra dolga <\/span><\/i> daro\u00feas w\u00e6ron<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

weo \u00fe\u00e6re wihte \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u204a se wudu searwum<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

f\u00e6ste gebunden <\/span><\/i> hyre fota w\u00e6s<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

biid f\u00e6ft o\u00feer \u00b7 <\/span><\/i> o\u00feer bisgo dreag<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

leolc on lyfte <\/span><\/i> hwilum londe neah<\/span><\/i>
\ntreow w\u00e6s getenge <\/span><\/i> \u00fee \u00fe\u00e6r torhtan stod<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

leafum bihongen <\/span><\/i> Ic lafe geseah<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

minum hlaforde <\/span><\/i> \u00fe\u00e6r h\u00e6le\u00f0 druncon<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00feara flan <\/span><\/i> on flet beran<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The favored solution is <\/span>Weaver\u2019s Loom<\/span><\/a>. The \u201cstriving thing\u201d is the web still in the loom; it is injured by the needle or <\/span>shuttle<\/span><\/a> passing through it. The spears or darts \u201cmust be the teeth of the batten penetrating through the <\/span>warp<\/span><\/a>.\u201d \u201cThe two feet can only be the weighted ends of the two rows of warp\u00a0threads.\u201d The tree with leaves is a distaff<\/a>, with flax<\/a> on it; and the standing warp explains the metaphor of feet. On this see the learned and well-documented article by Erika von Erhardt-Siebold, \u201cThe Old English Loom Riddles,\u201d Philologica<\/i>, Malone Anniversary Studies<\/i><\/a>, Baltimore, 1949, pp. 9\u201317. Mrs. von Erhardt-Siebold includes with the Loom Riddles 50<\/i> (k-d 35), Coat of Mail<\/a>, which is related insofar as chain mail<\/a> resembles weaving; and 45<\/i> (k-d 70)<\/a>, which is usually solved as Reed Pipe (p. 37<\/a> below).<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me the wet ground, <\/span><\/i> exceeding cold,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

first brought forth <\/span><\/i> from within itself.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Neither am I wrought <\/span><\/i> of woolen fleece<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

nor of hairs, with skill; <\/span><\/i> I know it in my mind.<\/span><\/i>
\nI have no winding wefts nor any warp in me;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

nor with strong rods <\/span><\/i> does the thread resound for me,<\/span><\/i>
\nnor the whirring shuttle move across me,<\/span><\/i>
\nnor the weaver\u2019s rods <\/span><\/i> anywhere smite me.<\/span><\/i>
\nWorms do not weave me with fatal wiles<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

which fairly adorn <\/span><\/i> the fine yellow web.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yet nevertheless <\/span><\/i> the wide world over<\/span><\/i>
\none will call me a joyful garment for heroes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Say now truly, <\/span><\/i> you cunning sage,<\/span><\/i>
\nlearned in language, what this garment may be.<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n

\n

10<\/span><\/td>\n

Mec se w\u00e6ta wong <\/span><\/i> wundrum freorig<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

of his inna\u00fee <\/span><\/i> \u00e6rist cende<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

ne wat ic mec beworhtne <\/span><\/i> wulle flysum<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

h\u00e6rum \u00feurh heahcr\u00e6ft <\/span><\/i> hyge\u00feoncum min \u00b7<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

wundene me ne beo\u00f0 wefle ne ic wearp hafu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

ne \u00feurh \u00fereata ge\u00fer\u00e6cu <\/span><\/i> \u00fer\u00e6d me ne hlimme\u00f0<\/span><\/i>
\nne \u00e6t me hrutende <\/span><\/i> hrisil scri\u00fee\u00f0<\/span><\/i>
\nne mec ohwonan <\/span><\/i> sceal amas cnyssan<\/span><\/i>
\nwyrmas mec ne \u0101 w\u00e6fan \u00b7 wyrda cr\u00e6ftum<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00fea \u00fee geolo godwebb <\/span><\/i> geatwum fr\u00e6twa\u00f0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

wile mec mon hw\u00e6\u00fere se\u00feeah wide ofer eor\u00fean<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

hatan for h\u00e6le\u00fe\u016b <\/span><\/i> hyhtlic gew\u00e6de \u00b7<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

saga so\u00f0cwidum <\/span><\/i> searo\u00feoncum gleaw<\/span><\/i>
\nwordum wisf\u00e6st <\/span><\/i> hw\u00e6t \u00feis ge w\u00e6du sy<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In short, a <\/span>Coat of Mail<\/span><\/a>\u2014woven, but not of wool or of silk. Weaving is suggested, yet with a series of exclusions to show that the thing is not what you would at first suppose.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quiet, gode people, as we praise a quiet worker, sound the voices from the Eastern thrones.   We call one from whose hands the finest fibers flow, Albreda Aylese, who sets the spear-beam into binding.   With strong rods does the thread resound for her. The whirring shuttle moves across a sea of strands. The … <\/p>\n

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