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.

External Links

Emer's bardic blog can be found here.

Emer's CD's can be bought here!