Lilias de Cheryngton, now Dona, joined the Order of the Silver Crescent in 2020, during pandemic times. I was honored to be asked to compose the text for her scroll, which speaks to her tireless service in the kingdom, particularly on behalf of the rapier community. The text is based on the Song of Songs (Alternately Song of Solomon or Canticles) from the Bible. We worked from the online Douay-Rheims Translation, massaged the English into the form we wanted, and then translated it back into Latin for the final text on the scroll. In court it was read in both Latin and English.
Working Copy
This is our working copy, with chunks of the original that seemed useful collected as we found them, and then reworked to fit the content
Final Poem
We then combined the sections that worked best into a single poem of praise and that was translated back into Latin
Conclusion
Finally we built a brief conclusion, in prose, to include the formal details about the award, the Royalty and the date
It was in those times and with those words that their majesties T and A, in the year of their first Counsulship did, amidst clouds of light, elevate Lillias of Cheryngton to their order of their silver crescent, that she might bear the mark, In pale a crescent inverted argent and an Eastern crown Or, and exercise the powers and responsibilities of that order for ever and ever, vivat
Authors
- Scroll text by Gun∂ormr Dengir(that's me!), Ælia Fortunata(my apprentice, Latin translator) and Jerome of Stridon
- Calligraphy and Illumination by Aesa Faelinn Jossursdottir
