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.
Associations
- Voting (red border) member of the Drafn Warband
Officer Positions
Kingdom of CAID
- Kingdom Chronicler, 1/6/2018 - 1/4/2020
- Deputy Kingdom Chronicler, 6/2017 - 1/6/2018
- Deputy Kingdom Webwright, | Caid Online Calendar, 08/01/2015 - 06/13/2020 (See | Kingdom Webwright)
Barony of Calafia
- Chronicler, 11/10/2012-11/08/2014
Canton of Tanwayour
- Web Chronicler, 10/18/2014 - 4/22/2017
- Seneschal, 6/9/2012 - 10/18/2014
- Deputy Seneschal, 6/18/2011 - 6/9/2012
- Webwright, 2009 - 4/22/2017
Other Officer Positions
Kingdom of CAID
- Editor, The Crown Prints,01/4/2020 - 06/13/2020.
- 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
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
- Set-up crew, Potrero War 2018
- Pre-registration Co-Autocrat, Potrero War 2019
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
- Lucet Cording - Calafia Winter Arts, 2 December 2017
- Beginning Lucet Cording - Potrero War 2018
- Chronicler 101/Meet the Kingdom Chronicler - Collegium, 9 June 2018
- Basic Lucet Cordmaking - Great Western War, 6 October 2018
- Lucet Cordmaking - Calafia Winter Arts, 1 December 2018
- Basic Lucet Cordmaking - Potrero War 2019
Haiku
From September 2016 through July 2020 Ketill published a Haiku in each issue of The Crown Prints. 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.
April 2018 - Out of the ashes: | We return to normalcy | and begin again.
May 2018 - May Day marks the start | Of our Magnificent Dream. | A.S. Fifty-three.
June 2018 - Forty years ago | Caid became a kingdom. | Here’s to forty more!
July 2018 - Mealla Caimbeul | Caidan Lady in Pink | Sadder for the loss.
August 2018 - History is made | With Agrippa and Dawid | As Kings of Caid.
September 2018 - Summer’s in earnest. | Tournament Season arrives! | Chivalry prevails!
October 2018 - Dos equis plus “eye” | Is the age of our Great War. | Let’s go have a drink!
November 2018 - November begins | the winter hibernation | and the Yule season.
December 2018 - Egg nog and mulled wine: | Good seasonal libations. | (But not together!)
January 2019 - Two thousand nineteen: | Our annus horribilis. | Is now history.
February 2019 - Cupid’s arrows fly | At their intended target. | Amorous season.
March 2019 - Adam and Stæina | Caid’s undoubted monarchs. | To rule over us.
April 2019 - Did anyone know | That so much water could fall | On Estrella War?
May 2019 - A new year begins | For our magnificent Dream | A.S. Fifty-four.
June 2019 - Remembering at | The very last minute that | You need a Haiku
July 2019 - Coronation Day | Barony of Wintermist | Wilhelm and Tysra
August 2019 - A blown rivet means | An emergency repair | Duct tape is your friend!
September 2019 - Chivalric valour | Bi-annual tournament | Royal selection
October 2019 - That SCAdian life: | Hitting your friend with a stick | Best hobby EVAR!
November 2019 - Alexander was | Inspired by Tahira | To carry the day.
December 2019 - The days are shorter. | The nights longer and colder. | Winter is coming.
January 2020 - Time of dormancy. | Fimbulvinter ascending? | Winter has arrived!
February 2020 - Quadrennial day: | February twenty-ninth; | Pope Gregory’s fix.
March 2020 - Winter in retreat | Natural world revives | Hibernation ends
April 2020 - Viscount Morven of Carrick, a Crown Prints proofreader, submitted the following Haiku:
The only problem | with Haiku is that you just | get started and then
Ketill responded in the same issue:
Challenge accepted! | Counting five, seven, and five: | Elementary!
May 2020 - Social distancing? | Cancellation of events? | Caid will endure.
June 2020 - Kingdom dance challenge! | Midrealm throws down the gauntlet! | Caid does respond!
July 2020 - Four riders approach: | Pestilence, War, Famine, Death. | Apocalypse Now?
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.)
Ketill rauðskeggr being installed at Kingdom Chronicler by Alexander and Tahira, 6 January 2018. (Photo by Lord Suleiman ibn Rawh.)
Ketill rauðskeggr receiving the Kingdom Chronicler's Chain of State from Queen Tahira, 6 January 2018. (Photo by Lord Suleiman ibn Rawh.)
Ketill rauðskeggr before he was known as Ketill rauðskeggr, taken at the May 1995 Potrero War by (now) Duchess Kara the Twin of Kelton.
Ketill rauðskeggr at the 13 July 2019 Coronation. (Photo by THL Miko Zane.)
