Award of Arms - Backlog for Eogan
- Sabine di Sandra
- Jan 5, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 12, 2025
This award was originally given out in 2022 without a scroll. I delivered it via a friend (thank you Eva!) to Birka in January of 2025.
I did not have anything to go off of for this scroll. There were no words written about the candidate. No wiki. No heraldry. No hints. Sometime after the scroll was finished, we learned that the recipient may have moved to Atlantia. Either way. I may never know if this scroll is successfully delivered - so if you ever talk to Eogan Raidskeggr, let him know the good people of the East Kingdom Backlog have this scroll for him!
Words, Calligraphy, Illumination by Sabine di Sandra
This scroll was a great learning tool. I knew pergamenata paper could get wrinkled when soaked with water or paint, but I did not understand the degree! Thankfully, it will still look just fine if framed.
Words
Heed these words and be it known that on May 28, AS 57, at the War of the Roses, their Majesties Ryoukojin and Indrakshi did find fit to recognize Eogan Raidskeggr and name him a Lord of the East.
Rise, Lord Eogan! With this Award shall you bear these Arms and the honor and responsibility they bestow. May you be steadfast as a longship surging forward against the pounding of waves as you continue to chart your course in service to the Kingdom.
Illumination
Source for the Ship (same ship different sites):
“MS CCC 157 p.383 The visions dreamt by King Henry I in Normandy in 1130, from the Worcester Chronicle, c.1130-40 (vellum)”
This was "inserted c.1140 by John of Worcester into the chronicle begun by Florence of Worcester (d.1118); one of the earliest surviving chronicle illustrations."
It is an English depiction of Norse imagery, which is appropriate given the Scribe’s lack of proper training in Norse/Viking age illumination and calligraphy.
Source for the knot at top:
The Urnes Stave Church north portal, c. 1132, wood, Ornes, Norway
