Martan mac Alasdair - Award of Arms, in Trochaic Tetrameter

Martan is a smith, and the hammering sense of trochees felt appropriate in this instance.

Poem

Humans make dead earth live steel,

Rigid beam to bending bow;

Beasts we teach to heel and drive --

We ourselves likewise may grow.

One among Our people shines,

Armored sergeant, smith of plate;

Proof improving skill and grace

Lifts mankind from common state.

Thus mac Alasdair do We,

Adelhait and Christoph, King,

Claim a Noble for our Court --

Long may we his praises sing.

Arms awarded read as such:

Vert, two poleaxe crossed argent

Chief three trefoil, green on white.

This design none else may flaunt.

Given to Martan mac Alasdair at Pennsic War Anno Societatis LIV.