Emer ingen Uí Áedán

Persona

Ollamh Emer ingen Uí Áedán (she/her) is a 7th-century Irish woman who travels between her family's holdings in Éire (specifically on the coast of Ulster) and in Dál Riata in Alba.

Whereabouts

Emer currently resides in the Canton of Bryniau Tywynnog, in the Barony of Ramshaven.

Heraldry

Device: Per pall inverted argent, gules, and sable, two foxes salient respectant counterchanged and a triskelion of spirals argent.
Badge: (Fieldless) three foxes courrant in annulo, conjoined at the paws, proper.
Household Badge: Gules, two goats combattant Or. Badge of the High Rafters' Barnatafl (literally “Kid's Table), shared with Matheus hundamaðr.
Laurel Badge: (Fieldless) On a chalice argent sustaining in chief a flame proper a triskelion of spirals sable.

Offices and Appoinments

Current Office

Emer currently holds no offices.

Past Offices

Chronicler - Canton of Greyfells
Chatelaine - Shire of Trinovantia Nova
Minister of Arts and Sciences - Canton of Bryniau Tywynnog (2017 - 2019)

Past Appointments

Lupine Bard - Kingdom of Ealdormere for King Nigel III and Adrielle III (Summer 2016); shared with TH Lord Dietrich von Sachsen.
Bard - Barony of Ramshaven (July 2014-May 2017)
Lupine Bard - Kingdom of Ealdormere, for King Roak I and Queen Carlotta
Bard - Barony of Skraeling Althing
Bard - Barony of Ramshaven

SCA History

Emer is, by royal decree, the President of the Steinarr Fan Club.

She is a member of the Barnatafl, or “Kid's Table”, of Haakon's High Rafters.

Interests

Bardic Arts
Brewing
Bone Carving
Costuming
Early Period Illumination
Embroidery
Naalbinding
Period Encampment
Persona Development
Scribal
Thrown Weapons
Weaving

Awards

Award of Arms - March 28th, 1997
Award of Orion - March 3rd, 2000 (this award has written instead of the Award of Orion “The Trillium's Fire”, as it was not yet decided what the award would be called. This amuses Emer greatly.)
Award of Orion - September 15th, 2001
Order of the Crucible - November 15th, 2004
Award of the Guidon de Sang - May 1996
Award of the Guidon d'Argent - July 2nd, 2016
Scroll of Honour - May 22nd, 2021 (FOOL XIV; Rattanicus & Isabel, for service in the Bardic Army of Ealdormere)
Order of the Laurel - December 4th, 2021
Award of the Guidon d'Or - December 3rd, 2022

Other Activities

Ollamh Emer has two children: Morgana and Lorelei.

Emer was apprenticed to Mistress T'svia bas Tamara v'Amberview and Mistress Marian of Heatherdale. She was also the protege of Mistress Morgana bro Morganwg, though her belt was returned upon her Laurelling.

She has an apprentice in the form of Guoillauc filius Brancu, and a student in the form of Ascelyn of Ben Dunfirth. Guoillauc had been her student for many years, but the relationship became formalized at FOOL, 2022.