Maricka Sigrunsdotter

(http://op.antirheralds.org/index.php?who=4705) Registered name: Maricka Sigrunsdotter (Icelandic/Danish) AKA

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Marike Sigrunasdotter/

Heraldry:Azure, on a plate between three hounds courant in annulo tails nowed argent, a crescent pendant azure.

First camping event:

Thirty Year

My first event ever was Aquaterra's yule in 1994. I belly danced at the feast. I started playing in the Barony of Blatha an Oir in 1996 and in 1998 was honored with becoming baronial retinue. I have been active in the Barony since 1998 with the exception of a a few years that I lived in Vancouver WA.

Personna: Maricka Sigrunsdotter

Born in 940 AD in East Jutland in a place called Jelling. I reside under the rule of King Gorm the Elder and Queen Thyra, which will be the last pagan monarchs of my area.

Branch: Barony of Blatha An Oir [Branch web site]

Golden Blossom (Blatha An Oir)

By: Yusuf Ja'bar al Timbuktuwwi el galot, Isabeau de Lis Noir Sep 9, 1998 (AS XXXIII)

Briar (Blatha An Oir)

By: Yusuf Ja'bar al Timbuktuwwi el galot, Isabeau de Lis Noir Sep 17, 2000 (AS XXXV)

Award of Arms (An Tir)

By: Skapti Thorinsson, Asa Starradottir May 1, 2004 (AS XXXIX)

Jambe de Lion (An Tir)

By: Cedric Blackwell Rolfsson, Elizabeth Yvonne Owles Aug 15, 2009 (AS XLIV)

Panther's Torch (Blatha An Oir) Aug 15, 2009 (AS XLIV)

By: Aleksii Konstantinovich Chernoi, Elspeth Nic Grath

Forget-me-not (An Tir)

By: Dagmaer in Hvassa Dec 17, 2011 (AS XLVI)

Goutte De Sang (An Tir)

By: Thorin Njalsson, Dagmaer in Hvassa Jan 7, 2012 (AS XLVI)

Bountiful Hand (An Tir)

By: Thorin Njalsson, Dagmaer in Hvassa Jan 7, 2012 (AS XLVI)

Forget-me-not (An Tir)

By: Astrid av det Fjord Landskap Oct 27, 2012 (AS XLVII)

Flamme de Or (Blatha An Oir)

By: Aleksii Konstantinovich Chernoi, Elspeth Nic Grath Feb 2, 2013 (AS XLVII)

Forget Me Not (An Tir)

By: Caoimhe ingen Domnaille June 1,2013

Baron's Favor (Blatha An Oir)

By: Aleksii Konstantinovich Chernoi Sep 7, 2013 (AS XLVIII)

Baroness's Favor (Blatha An Oir)

By: Elspeth Nic Grath Sep 7, 2013 (AS XLVIII)

Baroness #5 of Blatha An Oir (An Tir) Sept 5, 2013 - August 20, 2016

By: Ieuan Gower, Gwyneth Gower

Forget me not (An Tir)

By:Dagrun Stjarna Jan 9, 2015 (AS XLIX )

Bountiful Hand (An Tir)

By: Styrkarr Jarlsskald and Dagrun Stjarna Jan 9, 2015 (AS XLIX)

Court Baroness An Tir

By: Kjartan Daegarson, Sha'ya Kjartanskona August 20, 2016

Patroness Sergeant

Blatha an Oir, August 20,2016 This is not on OP and is exclusive to the Barony of Blatha an Oir

Bountiful Hand (An Tir)

by: By: Kjartan Daegarson, Sha'ya Kjartanskona January 13, 2017

Forget me not (An Tir)

By: Sha'ya Kjartanskona January 13, 2017

Order of the Lion's Mane (An Tir)

by: Styrkarr Jarlsskald and Dagrun Stjarna June 3, 2017

Forget-me-not (An Tir)

By: Dagrun Stjarna Jul 15, 2017 (AS LII)

Things I have done

1. BAO Retinue 1998-2001 to Yusuf Ja'bar al Timbuktuwwi el galot, Isabeau de Lis Noir

2. Deputy sensechal Blatha an Oir 2011,2012 to Yusuf Ja'bar al Timbuktuwwi el galot

3. Lady in waiting for HRM Queen Dagmaer. 2011

4. Lady in waiting for HRM Astrid of the Fjordlands 2012

5. Head Lady in waiting for HRH Caoimhe ingen Domnaille 2012-13

6. An Tir Kingdom Chronicler and Crier editor. June 2nd 2012 to July 19th 2013. Resigned when I became baroness of Blatha an Oir

7. Apprenticed to Her Grace Dutchess Dagmaer in Hvassa in 2011 as her Laurel Student.

8. An Tir Lampworkers Guild. (2013-current) Create beads for the guild to give out to kingdoms. Sets of 19 per kingdom. Make 3-5 sets of 19 beads per set per year. since 2017 the bead amount has changed to 7.

9. Sport of Kings 2013 -Artist of the Year Designed the 2013 Sport of Kings Tee shirts and design that was used on the banners

10. Registered Ithra Instructor. Teaching: I teach a class on leather carving, beginning and intermediate lamp work Bead making, a class on embroidery for embellishment, and a 16 century Persian 2 hour class, lecture on basic history, apparel (mens and womens) textile, brief history. Lastly,Iconic imagery. Creating a male wrap around coat from the Germanic Iron age based on Archaeology and iconic imagery from the time.

11. Assisted in the creation of Step down Iron age finnish Costuming for interested retinue for HRM Caoimhe ingen Dominaille.

12. Custom Kingdom scroll work. Designed and painted Baroness Svava's court barony scroll 2014

13. An Tir West War cancer tourneys lamp worked necklaces. 2014-2015 I made the beads and assembled the necklace.

14. Designed Their Royal Majesties Styrkarr and Dagrun Stjarna's coronation apparel. 2013 Dutchess Miranda contacted me and asked me if I could work on the project. I assembled a team of talented artisans to assist in the creation of the pieces. I did the tablet weaving, directed the artisans and coordinated the efforts to meet our goal and deadline. I also did seam finish, necks, and trim work on the apparel. Our team created a total of 11 pieces of apparel for them. 3 under tunics, three over tunics, 2 under dresses, one apron dress, one caftan coat, and one pair of pants. This project was a huge undertaking and would not have been possible without all of the timeless efforts, passion, and hard work of the Blatha an Oir clothier team.

15. Made 160 hand lamp worked bead site tokens for May Crown 2015

16. Made 50 Vigil beads for Warin of Essex for his knighting vigil May Crown 2015

17. Made 50 Vigil beads for Verith de Prendergast for his vigil at May Crown 2015. Verith was made the last Don of An Tir.

18. SoK Sport of Kings 2015 and 2013. Design layout for the tee shirts. (did not design the artwork just the computer design)

19. 2015 lamp worked necklace for the An Tir West War cancer tourney.

20. Recreated and documented grave lamp worked bead necklace from Himlingoje, Seeland Grave 1878-1

21. Made the beads and created a hand Lamp worked necklace for Lion of An Tir Pendant. May 2016

22. Co- Royal court coordinator (stunt ret) for TRM's Kjarton and Shaya July 2016- Jan 14, 2017

23. Gifted a 14.5 inch lamp worked bead chatelaine for Her Majesty Sha'ya Sept 2016. All beads made by me.

24.Gifted a necklace for Princess of Summits Alina (December 2016) All beads were hand lamp worked by me.

25. Made a necklace to be given as a gift to the Prince of the Summits Tjorkill December 2016. All beads were hand made by me.

26. Camp coordinator (not layout just did the arranging) for TRMS Styrkarr Jarlsskald and Stjarna. Jan 14th 2017- Was the liaison for reserving land for the royal camp.

27. Head of Retinue- Lieutenant- For TRMS Styrkarr Jarlsskald and Stjarna. Jan 14th 2017- July 2017

28. Made a lamp worked bead necklace and donated it to the June Faire silent Auction. Proceeds went to help Blatha an Oir recover from their losses of the stolen trailer and contents.

29. Newest endeavor is that I am part of the lamp working team that creates the hand lamp worked necklaces for crown tourneys. The silver rose and silver lily. My first set will be made for May 2018.

30. Donated three lamp worked bead items that I made for the 2018 12th night peer auction. Two focal disk beads and one period women's viking age festoon.

31. Made lamp worked bead necklace for the Blatha An Oir Autumn War Event stewards for the years 2014, 15, 16.

32. Judging at Kingdom Arts and Sciences and Bardic years 2014-17. And this year. 2018

33. Making the Roman Garb and accessories for Andromacha Tou Lésvos for Gavinius' knighting ceremony.

other service and A and S related:

1. Designed Skapti Thorinsson's purple heart chair in 2004. Did most of the wood carving. There were a few pieces that my squire brother at the time did He cut out the chair) His Graces squire Thalin purchased the wood and my squire sister at the time assisted in sanding.

2. Cut out and tooled and painted a custom leather belt that was won in a 12th night auction 2004.

3. Scribal work. Painted kingdom charters in 2004, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016

4. Designed the Autumn War t shirts for the years of 2009-2011

5. Designed the Art of War T shirt for 2011

6. Scribal work for the Barony of Blatha an Oir. Pick up and paint extra kingdom charters when needed.

7. Designed the thrones favors for Duke Thorin and Dutchess Dagmaer for their last reign. Dec. 2011

8. Embroidered the spirals and pelican on Anharad Albannes Pelican cloak. 2012

9. Lamp work bead team for the Barony of Blatha an Oir to give out as site tolkens. 2012-2013 Made about 1500 total

10. Autumn War on event steward team from 2009- 2016 Also have co stewarded BaO events in the 1990s.

11: Named the event Embers and Ambrosia and worked diligently and tirelessly with the creation style and idea of the event for first two years it existed until it had become established and had come to fruition. The year after I became Baroness of Blatha an Oir I handed the event over to Odny Refesdotter who has continued to develop the event into Blatha an Oirs Premier A and S learning extravaganza.

12. My husband and I wanted to bring back Celtic Bardic to the Barony of Blatha an Oir in 2013. This idea was proposed at a business meeting and was granted. Worked very hard to promote the bardic arts in the barony becassue it was non existant. Asked to have a bardic champion added to the Blatha an Oir baronial champions as well as have Celtic Bardic back. The request was joyously granted.

13. Designed the BaO Baron and Baroness legacy cloaks. The barony had no regalia for their Baron and Baroness. I wanted the next Baron and Baroness to have regalia. They were finished and presented in August 2017

My current passion is Scythian art, jewelry, clothing and history. I have started to do archery in the past two years and am working on a Scythian costume to go with my horse bow and my custom leather quiver I made.

My focus is viking age period lamp worked beads and late Roman Era lamp worked beads in Scandinavia.

Things I do and/or teach:

Teach costuming and cultural classes. (viking era and Persian)

Teach classes in sewing, tablet weaving, painting, scribal, lamp working, leather tooling, embroidery and embellishment, leather armor and shield making and painting. Iconic imagery. Creating a male wrap around coat from the Germanic Iron age based on Archaeology and iconic imagery from the time.

making leather armor since 2000

make heavy fighting weapons/shields since 2000

make period viking age shoes

Leather tooling 30 years experience.

Viking Era, Vendel era, Germanic Iron age clothing and culture

Iron Age Finnish, Latvian

16th Century Persian clothing

Embroidery and embellishment

wood carving

scribal work (teach, design charters and paint)

Painting heraldic devices on shields.

Making silk banners.

metal etching (newest skill)

Pierce work

basic forge work

Period middle eastern dance(18 years)(professional Belly dancer since 1993)

Lamp work bead making (my muse!)

wool felting, 3d wool felting

tablet weaving

Heddle loom weaving (small projects)

Inkle loom weaving (belts and trim)

Making silver and iron needles.

Being a inspiration to the love of my life and husband. HE Hengist Helgassonne

Things I want to learn:

nalbinding (I make franken socks) ( I am learning!!!)

Things I don't know a lot about.

heraldry. Just never been my thing. Love it. Not for me.

Other things I have done in the sca.

Fought heavy regularly for 4 years from 2003-2007 Won best new fighter at Mayfaire in 2004. Fought at Estrella War in 2004, 4 An Tir West Wars. several in the Kingdom Wars including several Honey and Autumn Wars. Stopped fighting heavy in 2010 permanently due to neck injury.

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