{"id":144,"date":"2014-12-12T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblionalia.info\/leah\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:58:01","slug":"kudrun-laurel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/kudrun-laurel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistress Kudrun Pilegrim&#8217;s Laurel Scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/northshield.org\/Populace\/Persona.aspx?ID=2623\">my favorite collaboration partner<\/a> and I worked together on Mistress Kudrun Pilegrim&#8217;s Laurel scroll for her elevation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jararvellir.org\/cooksnbards2014\/\">7th Known World Cooks and Bards Collegium in Jararvellir<\/a>. It&#8217;s based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.nls.uk\/murthlyhours\/\">Murthly Hours<\/a> (c. 1280, Paris), f. 87r, 67v, and 43v.<\/p>\n<p>Kat is responsible for the text and calligraphy, and I did the layout and illumination. The video shows it MOST of the way done &#8211; it didn&#8217;t get finished-finished until we were on site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBtc4FVGeFs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>More about the text after the break. It&#8217;s really cool text!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The text on the &#8220;big&#8221; scroll is not the full poem that Kat wrote (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=cme;idno=OwlC\">&#8220;The Owl and the Nightingale&#8221;<\/a>). She was presented with a small piece that had the full poem on it as well as some minimal illumination in the same style. She also translated it. She&#8217;s crazy like that. Anyway &#8211; here&#8217;s the modern English version:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dawn broke o&#8217;er cliffs in Northshield fair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to find two creatures chatting there<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For Siegfried, King, and Elizabeth, Queen,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Asked \u201cwhat does being a Laurel mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The griffin to the falcon said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI think Laurels should be well-read,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and books and stories often find.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be rich of soul, and stout of mind!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The falcon cried, \u201cof course they should!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And also teach for common good!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Their knowledge spread throughout the land,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">be generous with heart and hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The griffin grinned, and said, \u201cthat&#8217;s true,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and espouse these qualities too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Justice, honor, faith, courtesy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">courage, and generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The pair agreed on all these things,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so they told the queen and king,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cKudrun Pilegrim, it&#8217;s been alluded,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this lady soon shall be included<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the Order of the Laurel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For skills researchical and choral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By our thought and estimation,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She is worthy of elevation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">dread sovereigns smiled, their thoughts confirmed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by griffin just and clever bird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They said to Kudrun, \u201cit is clear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by all accounts, you are a peer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Acknowledged as a Laurel now,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we set this wreath upon your brow,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This moment forth, &#8217;til end of days,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;ll guide, and serve, and light the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So closeth the tale, it is done<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Though Kudrun&#8217;s story&#8217;s just begun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A compass for our people, she<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">will be a light for all to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, my favorite collaboration partner and I worked together on Mistress Kudrun Pilegrim&#8217;s Laurel scroll for her elevation at the 7th Known World Cooks and Bards Collegium in Jararvellir. It&#8217;s based on the Murthly Hours (c. 1280, Paris), f. 87r, 67v, and 43v. Kat is responsible for the text and calligraphy, and I did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/kudrun-laurel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mistress Kudrun Pilegrim&#8217;s Laurel Scroll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[37,33,39,38,36,32,34,35],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-2k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}