Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada
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Persona
Meadhbh is an Irish speaker from Connaught.
Ballach is a descriptive byname meaning “freckled.”
Full name: Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada
Roles and Activities
Meadhbh is currently serving as the largess coordinator for Their Majesties, Kilian Fendrich and Jalida al-Hasanah. Please get in touch if you are interested in making or donating largess.
Meadhbh hosts a sewing circle approximately monthly on Sunday afternoons for Tree-Girt-Sea. She is an aspiring archer, a scribe for the Midrealm, and active in A&S activities.
She is an active scribe for the Barony of Ayreton and the Kingdom, focusing on illumination.
She is a protege of Hillary of Langforde.
Arts and Sciences
She entered research about women's coats from 6th century Kent into the Tournament of Arts and Midlands Arts and Sciences for AS 59. She entered a display of a Kentish woman's grave into the Queen's Prize Tourney at Val Day.
Her current research is an expansion of that work to explore the entire range of female grave goods including clothing for 6th century Kent.
Classes: Steal Her Look: Dressing a 6th century Kentish woman
Awards
Award of Arms, Fall Coronation AS 59 (9/28/24)
Award of the Cellerer of Ayreton – Given for acts of hospitality on behalf of and within the Barony. (12/15/24)
Scroll Preferences
She prefers for scrolls to be in English unless properly translated into Irish. No faux hands please. She loves illuminated manuscript marginalia and weird little guys.
Favorite color is green.
Tentative Events for 2025
3/29/25 Better War Through Archery
4/5/25 Day of Playe
4/26/25 Awakenings
5/3/25 Coronation
Spring Crown (maybe)
Ragnarok Rampage
Warriors and Warlords (Northshield)
Baroness Wars
Interests
Fiber arts: knitting, spinning, weaving, dyeing, sewing, embroidery
Irish language
Archery
Gardening and cooking
Birdwatching
Allergy notes
Cannot eat gluten
Scribal Gallery
- Purple Fret for Jadwiga Kochanawa, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Better War Through Archery, A.S. LVIII.
- Award of the Quoin given to Khadrin the Red. Baronial Award for Carraig Ban. Calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Ragnarok Rampage A.S. LIX.
- Award of Arms for Alexandra of Ayreton, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Baroness Wars, A.S. LIX.
- Award of Arms for Erchanwald of Rivenstar, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Fall Coronation, A.S. LIX.
- Royal Vanguard for Tryggr Gillason, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Fall Coronation, A.S. LIX.
- Atlas of Ayreton for Elaine Ladd and Xavier de Navarre, Baronial award for Ayreton. Calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at All Souls... Here We Go Again!, A.S. LIX.
- Pleiades for Kateryn Styllyngflete Baronial award for Ayreton. Calligraphy by Amber Stormwatch. illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at December Baronial Court, A.S. LIX.
- Cavendish Knot for Vork of Black Moon Forest, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Festival of Maidens, A.S. LIX.
- Award of Arms for Ivar Gregorson, calligraphy by Kateryn Styllyngflete, illumination by Meadhbh Ballach ingen Eochada. Given at Courting on the River, A.S. LIX.