Scroll Text - Darri inn Valski - Gage 2014

Scroll Text - Darri inn Valski - Gage 2014

Kingdom of AEthelmearc - Martial Award

Due greetings and commendations to all gentles these present letters from Magnus Tindal et Etain, Basileus kai AEthelmearc, to the barons, lords and freemen of Our domain, greetings. It has come to Our notice the tremendous skill of armor and shield, of sword and spear, within the tourney and upon the field and with all the noble skill of arms that a man shall learn. Thus, be it known that we have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant for us and our heirs to our wellbeloved subject, Darri inn Valski, entrance into our Order of the Gage and do grant him arms, to wit, Per pall argent fretty vert, sable, and vert, two wolves sejant ululant respectant argent, that he shall bear from this day until the world's end without let or hinderence. In witness whereof we have caused to be made these Our letters. Witnessed Ourselves at Pennsic 43, the fourth day of August, AS 49.

based on the "Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot and his Three Sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the the Discouerie of New and Unknowen Lands" and a letter from Henry VII to the dean and chapter of Wells, dated April 9, 1495.