Éowyn Amberdrake
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Baroness Éowyn Amberdrake, OP, OL. She has been recognized with an Augmentation of Arms and Personal Heraldic Title. She is married to Baron Jamal Damien Marcus, OL, KSCA.
Her motto is borrowed from Michaelangelo, who inscribed it next to an image of Father Time: "Ancora Imparo", translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Poetry and Imagination" (1847) as "I am still learning."
Persona Biography
Born in Northumbria near the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in the year 650, Éowyn learned to read, write, and cipher from the fathers of the island. She ran away with a bard, but after she was left a widow, she eventually became a scribe at Lindisfarne. She has a carved amber dragon that others mention when distinguishing her from the other Éowyn who lives not far away. She left/will leave this amber drake to her granddaughter, also named Éowyn . She, in turn, leaves it to her daughter, and so on. The last Éowyn was heard from shortly after 1600, in the New World, about to embark on a trek through the deserts of New Mexico.
SCA Biography
Éowyn first found the SCA at LACon, the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles, in 1972. She returned to her home area of al-Barran, Outlands, Atenveldt, where she participated mostly through the UNM fencing club and the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society. Moved to Freehold of the Great River, Outlands, Atenveldt, where she started training as an SCA fighter. Moved to Barony of Angels, Caid, in 1975, and became a founding member of the canton of Lyonesse (soon to be Lyondemere) in July 1975. Has remained resident in Lyondemere ever since.
Offices & Positions
- Chancellor of the Exchequer of Lyondemere, late 1970s
- Seneschal of Lyondemere, early 1980s
- Kingdom Scribe Armarius (changed the office's name from Chancellor of Scribes), 5/1979 - 11/1984
- Golden Rose Pursuivant (keeper of Order of Precedence), 1983 - 1985
- Director of the SCA Board of Directors, 7/1984 - 1/1988
- Clarion Queen of Arms for tenure of Baldwin of Erebor, 1984 - 1986
- Chairman of the SCA Board of Directors, 1/1987 - 1/1988
- Coral Herald of Lyondemere, 1989 - 1990
- Director of the SCA Board of Directors, 7/1991 - 1/1992
- Fourth Baroness of Lyondemere with Jamal Damien Marcus, 7/2001 - 7/2006
- Editor, Compendium Caidis, 2008-Present
Classes Taught
- Before You Stitch, Spring Collegium 2011
- Elizabethan Embroidered Flower Identification, part 2, Spring Collegium 2011
- Elizabethan Embroidered Flower Identification, part 1, Spring Collegium 2010
- Elizabethan Coifs, Spring Collegium 2010
Publications
Author
Many articles in Ars Caidis, Tournaments Illuminated, and the Proceedings of various heraldic and scribal symposia
The Compleat Anachronist
Author of:
- The Compleat Anachronist #061, "An Enchieridion -- The Education of a Scribe". 1992.
- The Compleat Anachronist #116, "I See By Your Outfit: Order Robes Medieval and Modern". 2002.
- The Compleat Anachronist #118, "Characteristically Pictish". 2002.
Editor/ Compiler of:
- The Compleat Anachronist #050, "Armorial Display". by various authors. 1990.
- The Compleat Anachronist #100, "A Veiled Reference". by Lisa Ford and Theresa Sherman. 1998.
Illustrator of:
- The Compleat Anachronist #050, "Armorial Display". by various authors. 1990.
- The Compleat Anachronist #100, "A Veiled Reference". by Lisa Ford and Theresa Sherman. 1998.
Editor
- Caidan Bardic Circle Songbook #1
- Caidan Bardic Circle Songbook #2
- Caidan Bardic Circle Songbook #3
- Caidan Bardic Circle Songbook #4
- Caidan Bardic Circle Songbook #5
Illustrator
- A Lymner's Roll of Arms of the Kingdoms, Principalities, and Baronies of the Knowne World. 1984.
- Hrisoulas, Jim. The Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way to Perfection. Boulder: Paladin Press. 1987.
- A Lymner's Roll 2 of Arms of the Kingdoms, Principalities, and Baronies of the Knowne World. 1991.
Layout
- Heraldic Proceedings of the Known World Heraldic Symposium in Caid, 1989.
- Scribal Proceedings of the Known World Heraldic Symposium in Caid, 1989.
- Song Book of the Known World Heraldic Symposium in Caid, 1989.
Event Staff
- Co-autocrat, 2nd Caid Coronation November 1978, which was the Coronation of Martin and Neptha, in Lyondemere
- Autocrat, Collegium Caidis Calligraphy and Illumination, 3/22-23/1980, in Angels
- Revel autocrat/ event steward, 11/20/82, Coronation of Adrian II and Ealasaid, in Lyondemere
- Event Steward, Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 1989
- Event Steward, Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2007
- Co-Event Steward, Inter-Kingdom Intensive Needlework Symposium 2008
Arts and Sciences Pentathlon Participation
- Winner, 1980 Pentathlon with entries
- Calligraphed and Illuminated Scroll
- Leaded Glass panel
- Woodworking - large chest (now used for storing vinyl albums)
- don't recall other items
- Winner, 2001 Pentathlon with entries
- Calligraphed "Beowulf and the Dragon" based on hand of original ms., bound into a book
- Dramatic Reading of "Beowulf and the Dragon"
- Scribal tools of quills and ink used for "Beowulf and the Dragon"
- Embroidery - I think it was blackwork of two Ellizabethan dancers titled "Sellinger's Round"
- Research Paper (actually, a How to paper, which didn't quite fit the guidelines, so new category was created for the following Pentathlon)
- Team Winner, 2003 Pentathlon as part of Team Lyondemere
- Team Winner, 2001 Pentathlon as part of Team Lyondemere
- Judge of Pentathlon 1981 - 2009, when not competing
Projects
Artistic Interests
- Calligraphy, especially Insular from ca. 700 - 1000AD
- Ms. Illumination, especially Insular from ca. 700 - 1000AD, Medieval European, and Renaissance
- Pictish, Anglo-Saxon, Irish, British, and Viking Art (ca. 600 - ca. 1000)
- Dragons and Monsters, what they looked like in mss and art, how they are blazoned, fabulous stories about them
- Embroidery, especially English Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance whitework
- Elizabethan sweet bags
- Heraldry, especially Heraldic art
- Woodworking
- Weaving and braiding, especially fingerloop braids
