Ketill rauðskeggr
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 Ketill rauðskeggr making cord on a lucet at the 2015 St. Artemas Anniversary. (Photo by THL Tara the Twin of Dartford.) | ||||||||||
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The Honourable Lord Ketill rauðskeggr is a Companion of the Order of the Crescent and Lux Caidis.
He is a 10th century Viking, late of the Varangian Guard. For a while he was captured by a band of pirates, but eventually escaped and returned to his native northern lands.
Associations
- Voting (red border) member of the Drafn Warband
Officer Positions
Kingdom of CAID
- Kingdom Chronicler, 1/6/2018 - present
- Deputy Kingdom Chronicler, 6/2017 - 1/6/2018
Barony of Calafia
- Chronicler, 11/10/2012-11/08/2014
Canton of Tanwayour
- Deputy Seneschal, 6/18/2011 - 6/9/2012
- Seneschal, 6/9/2012 - 10/18/2014
- Web Chronicler, 10/18/2014 - 4/22/2017
- Webwright, 2009 - 4/22/2017
Other Positions
Kingdom of CAID
- Content Editor, The Crown Prints, 07/2013-10/2017 (See Kingdom Chronicler)
- Content Editor, The Crown Printscess (newsletter supplement published occasionally), 7/2013-10/2017
- Deputy Kingdom Webwright, Caid Online Calendar, 08/01/2015-present (See Kingdom Webwright)
Event Staff
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Potrero War Spring 2006
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Potrero War Fall 2006
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Potrero War Spring 2007
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Potrero War Fall 2007
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Spring Potrero War 2008
- Deputy Event Steward, Fall Potrero War 2008
- Gate Assistant, Calafia Anniversary 2008
- Deputy Event Steward and Fire Marshal, Potrero War 2009
- Co-Event Steward, Calafia Anniversary 2009
- Logistics Co-Autocrat, Potrero War 2010
- Event Steward, Leif Erickson Tourney 2010
- Deputy Event Steward, Potrero War 2011
- Logistics Autocrat, Potrero War 2012
- Event Steward, Calafia Anniversary 2012
- Event Steward, Tanwayour Anniversary 2015
- Event Steward, Calafia Anniversary 2015
- Gate staff, Calafia/Gyldenholt Friendship Tournament 2016
- Signs & Flyers Autocrat, Potrero War 2016
- Pre-registration Deputy Autocrat, Potrero War 2016
- Pre-registration Co-Autocrat, Potrero War 2017
Classes Taught
- Beginning Lucet - Potrero War 2010
- Beginning Lucet - Potrero War 2011
- Double Lucet - Potrero War 2012
- Beginning Lucet - Potrero War 2012
- Basic Lucet - Festival of the Rose / Dreiburgen Summer Arts 2012
- Intermediate Lucet - Fall Festival of the Rose 2012, 10 February 2013
- Beginning Lucet - Fall Festival of the Rose 2012, 10 February 2013
- The Lucet - Viking Guild of Calafia, 25 February 2013
- Beginning Lucet - Calafian Costumers Guild, 12 January 2015
- Beginning Lucet - Viking Guild of Calafia, 27 April 2015
- Lucet Cording - Festival of the Rose / Dreiburgen Summer Arts, 18 July 2015
- Learning the Lucet - Calafia Winter Arts, 5 December 2015
- Single Strand Lucet Cord - Potrero War 2016
- Two Strand Lucet Cord - Potrero War 2016
- The Double Lucet - Potrero War 2016
- Single Strand Lucet - Summer Festival of the Rose, 20 August 2016
- Beginning Lucet Cording - Potrero War 2017
- Beginning Lucet Cordmaking - Festival of the Rose/Dreiburgen Summer Arts, 12 August 2017
- Beginning Lucet Cordmaking - Great Western War, 7 October 2017
Haiku
Beginning with the September 2016 issue of The Crown Prints Ketill published a monthly Haiku. The Haiku were variously themed, sometimes serious, other times humourous.
September 2016 - Carrying the day. | Triumphant in the eric. | The Dream is alive.
October 2016 - Should it be this hot | Fighting the Mother Kingdom? | October Surprise!
November 2016 - Founding Barony | Calafian tradition | Don’t leave the meeting!
December 2016 - ‘Tis the season | for holiday celebrations! | (Who spiked the eggnog?)
January 2017 - A new reign begins | with Agrippa and Bridget | on the throne again.
February 2017 - Punxsutawney Phil: | The mythical weather "man." | (Still cold either way.)
March 2017 - A tough crowd to please. | (Ev'rybody's a critic.) | Beware the fifteenth!
April 2017 - A hard lesson learned: | Don't taunt the Easter Bunny! | (These Milk Duds taste odd.)
May 2017 - On the first of May | Nineteen hundred sixty six | The Dream was begun.
June 2017 - Tournament season | Martial prowess on the field | Hail Chivalry!
July 2017 - King Alexander | And his consort Tahira | Wintermist Royals
August 2017 - The "C" in CAID: | (Leave the meeting if you dare.) | Calafian love.
September 2017 - The "A" in CAID: | Be taken under the wing | By Kingdom Angels.
October 2017 - The "I" in CAID: | Is the Shire of the Isles | Once a Barony.
November 2017 - The "D" in CAID: | Three mountains and three cities | comprise Dreiburgen.
December 2017 - Kingdom of Caid | ‘The Current Middle Ages’ | Our Dream is alive.
January 2018 - It’s “reigning” again. | Caidan coronation. | Because we Believe.
February 2018 - A Cupid’s Arrow. | Finding your heart’s desire. | Intended target.
March 2018 - Vernal equinox. | Rebirth of nature’s wonders. | Rejuvenation.
Pictures
Ketill rauðskeggr, friend to all kitties, at Tanwayour Anniversary (2008). (Photo by Lady Giovanna Ricci.)
Ketill rauðskeggr enjoying the lovely weather at Estrella 24 (2008). (Photo by Lady Giovanna Ricci.)
Ketill rauðskeggr's lucet display at the Spring Festival of the Rose, 24 August 2013. (Photo by Lady Euginia in rauða.)
Ketill rauðskeggr with his lucet display at the Summer Festival of the Rose, 20 August 2016. (Photo by Duchess Kara the Twin of Kelton.)
Ketill rauðskeggr's lucet and Viking bag handles displace at Festival of the Rose/Dreiburgen Summer Arts, 12 August 2017. (Photo by Lord Wyatt the Odd.)
Ketill rauðskeggr, left, and Ketill Olafsson at Calafia Anniversary, 4 November 2017. (Photo by Duchess Kara the Twin of Kelton.)
