Award of the Elephants Heart

Awarded to Sefa of Cynnabar (modernly known as Amber Resseguie)

By the Barony of Cynnabar on 2017-10-14

Cynnabar’s Rulers | say resoundingly:
Hasten, herald, | most helpful of thralls.
Send for Sefa, | sincerest ally;
Let her look up, | her Lords to face.

She willingly works | to warm the hall,
And knows to notice | the needs of the people.
Always she gets up | to open the doors;
Gladly she goes, | the guests to welcome.

The bread she brings, | and bright gold mead,
When men and women | meet in mighty throngs.
A nobler being | shall never nourish
The people’s success | than Sefa of Cynnabar.

With these words do We, Ermenrich and Kasha, grant unto Sefa
Our Award of the Elephant’s Heart. Let none countermand Our
words.
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Based on excerpts from three poems in the Codex Regius (Icelandic, 1270s):
“Völundarkviða”, “Atlamál”, and “Grípisspá”.

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