About

Affiliations/Households

(listed in the order in which I joined them):

• Clan Preachain

• Anglesey

• Dalhraidia

• Barony of Ponte Alto in the SCA kingdom of Atlantia

• My husband Sir Arnoddr i Ongulseyju  was squired to Duke Havordh  AEttarbani so my husband and I have acted in support roles for Havordh and  his wife, Duchess Mary Grace of Gatland.

Positions Held/ Service

• Atlantian Royal Bard, 1/11/25 - present

• Arts and Sciences War Point judge, Pennsic 2024

• Coordinator, Early Period Arts and Sciences in Preachain (made it an official Pennsic U track for the first time), Pennsic 2024

• Baronial Brewing Champion, Ponte Alto, June 2024 - present  

• Bard of Anglesey (not an SCA title but deeply cherished)  August 2023-present

• Minister of Arts and Sciences, Barony of Ponte Alto, April 2023 -April 2024

• A&S coordinator, Ponte Alto Baronial Birthday Bloodbath event, April 2023

• Publicity coordinator and autocrat's assistant, Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival, March 2023

• Early Period Class Track Coordinator, Winter Atlantia University, February 2023

• Deputy Minister of Arts & Sciences, Barony of Ponte Alto, August 2022- April 2023.

• Poet Laureate of Meridies, 1997-98 

 Awards and Achievements- OP

• 11/5/2016 Award of Arms

• 5/7/2022 Atlantia University Bachelor's Degree

• 8/8/2022 Augmentation of Arms

• 8/10/2022 Companion of the Coral Branch

• 3/4/2023 Companion of the Pearl

• 4/15/2023 Onore del Ponte d'Argento, Barony A&S award

• 6/3/2023 Companion of the Opal

• 9/16/2023 University of Atlantia Fellow

• 3/02/2024 Silver Nautilus for brewing/baking display at KASF

• 3/30/2024 Onore del Ponte d'Oro, Barony service award

• 6/8/2024 Atlantia University Master's Degree

• 8/6/2025 Silver Nautilus for being an entrant in the Pennsic A&S War Point competition

• 8/6/2025 Order of the Laurel

Classes

• Iron Age Central European Brewing with Grain

• Feasting in Iron Age Britain

• Iron Age Birch Bark Hats

• British Iron Age Coins 

• Very very beginner cardweaving

Competitions and Displays

• Won Food and Beverage Non-Laurel category and Overall Points Non-Laurel, at Pennsic A&S War Point Competition, August 2025, for Egtved Girl's Brew

• Won Pippo's Presentation competition with a wool banner depicting the barony gargoyle mascot, made using appliqué  and needle-felting, at Ponte Alto Baronial Birthday & Bloodbath, March 2025

• Won Royal Bard competition at Atlantia Twelfth Night, January 2025 

• won Atlantia Tempore, Prehistory-1000 CE at Atlantia Twelfth Night, January 2025, for Egtved Girl's Brew

• Won Intermediate A&S category at War of the Wings, October 2024, for Hochdorf Braggot, a Brew from Beyond the Grave

• Scored 98/100 on the Interkingdom Brewers Guild rubric at Pennsic for "Ferrous Keltenbräu," August 2024

• Displayed Ales from Three Home-Malted Grains, made using wild-caught yeast at Ruby Joust, May 2024

• Displayed Iron Age Bread and Ale with Wild yeast and Home-Malted Grain at KASF, March 2024

• Placed second in the brewing competition with a Bog Myrtle Ale made using wild-caught yeast at Tournament of Ymir, February 2024

• Displayed Iron Age Malted Bread Leavened with Wild-Caught Yeast at Dunn Carraig Baronial Birthday and Investiture, December 2023

• Placed third in the "Make the Laurels Cry" competition for a birch bark hat decorated with a Sheela-na-gig, Dunn Carraig Baronial Birthday and Investiture, December 2023

• Won bardic for an original song about Commius at Dunn Carraig Baronial Birthday and Investiture, December 2023

• Entered Iron Age malted breads, one a flatbread (cooked on a stone at a campfire) and one leavened using storebought yeast, at Holiday Faire, November 2023. 

• Won Intermediate A&S category at War of the Wings, October 2023 for birch bark hats

• Won Atlantia Cultura, Fall Coronation, October 2023 for a birch bark hat

• Displayed Birch Bark Hats at Pennsic Known World Arts & Sciences (KWAS), August 2023

• won prize for pre-700 CE category at Storvik Novice Tourney, April 2023 for Iron Age Nettle Pudding

• won two of six bardic categories at the KASF bardic competition, March 2023 for a poem entitled Go Round. Displayed Birch Bark Hats

• won Atlantia Tempore, Prehistory-1000 CE at Spring Crown Tourney, May 2022 for Birch Bark Hats

Publications

• Celtic Copper Alloy Coin Minting Technology: Experiential Approaches, EXARC 2018, peer-reviewed experimental archaeology journal

• Dance with Aoife on the Summer Solstice, The Oak July 2023, A&S newsletter/blog for the Kingdom of Atlantia, as part of the "Anything But a Haiku" poetry challenge

• Ode to Commius, May 2023, The Oak, A&S newsletter/blog for the Kingdom of Atlantia

• The Conception of Taliesin- Royal Bard 2025, February 2025, The Oak, A&S newsletter/blog for the Kingdom of Atlantia

• Not-Ballad of Commius, March 2025, The Acorn 45(3) page 9, Newsletter for the Kingdom of Atlantia

• Egtved Girl Ale Recipe Development, April 2025, The Oak, A&S newsletter/blog for the Kingdom of Atlantia

 Video spots

• Highland Foorde's Humans of History Commius, July 15, 2021 

• Highland Foorde's Humans of History Li Qingzhao, October 20, 2022

• The Oak, Atlantia's A&S online newsletter/blog, performance of Conception of Taliesin poem,  February 2025

• Interview: Bardic Magic: Recreating History Through Performance, by Saeunn Hima/Evie Miller, published on the YouTube channel for Folklore Studies at George Mason University, February 2025 

Scroll Texts

• Arnoddr Chiv text

• Tegan of Anglesey Kraken text

• Arnoddr Pearl text

• Tegan of Anglesey Baronage text

Elevation Garb

• Arnoddr coat, chiv

• Bari tunic, chiv