Registered: June, 2002
Image Created By: Frederic Badger
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Arms: Argent, a dragon salient gules and on a chief engrailed sable a comet argent.
Awards: - Goutte de Sang
- 25 November 2006, TRM Amalric and Caia (by TRH Sven and Signy)
- Award of Arms
- Yule 2001, Prince Albrecht and Princess Maraigha
Archery Stuff:
- Archery Rank (Year Earned)
- Master Bowman (2002)
- Cold Keep Archery Champion AS 37
- Vinfest Archery Tournament Champion AS 38
- Vinfest Archery Tournament Champion AS 37
- Silver Arrow Archery Tournament Champion AS 36
- Montengarde Twelfth Night Division 2 Archery Champion AS 36
Responsibilities:
- Principality of Avacal Royal Archer
- Cold Keep Virtual Scribe
- Senior Target Archery Marshal
- Senior Combat Archery Marshal
Interests:
- Archery
- Calligraphy
- Bardic
- Dance
- Welsh History
Brynach's History:
Brynach ap Rhys (affectionately known as "Bryn") was born in 1170 in Aberconwy, in the Principality of Gwynedd. The third son out of seven children, he had many choices for a path in life. When a Cistercian monastery was founded in Aberconwy in 1184, he declined the cloistered path, although he did learn the art of the written word. When Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury, journeyed through Gwynedd in April of 1188 promoting the Third Crusade, Brynach decided instead to remain at home to tend to the sheep. However, in 1194 when Llywelyn ap Iorwerth moved to claim the throne of Gwynedd from his uncle Dafydd, Brynach was an archer in Llywelyn's army. Llywelyn defeated Dafydd near Aberconwy. Eventually, Llywelyn gained control over the entirety of Gwynedd, but that is a tale for another time and place.
In 1195, while traveling by coracle to the Ynys Mon (known to the English as the Isle of Anglesey) Brynach instead landed in a strange place called the Barony of Carolingia in the Kingdom of the East.
In Carolingia, Brynach continued his training in the art of archery, participated in dance practice, and enjoyed music and tales around many a campfire. Since then, Brynach has travelled quite a bit in the Known World. (Forget crusading, try immigrating....)
After living briefly in the Barony of Adiantum, Brynach eventually settled in the Shire of Cold Keep. He promoted archery, previously an unknown art in Cold Keep. Although staunchly a Welshman at heart, he has sworn fealty to the Principality of Avacal.
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Wales On The Web:
Davies, John; A History of Wales; Penguin: London, 1994.
A Brief History of Wales on the Web
Learn Welsh Online (from the BBC website)
Wales Non-Fiction:
- A History of Wales by John Davies, Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: 0140145818
- The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis, Lewis Thorpe (Translator), Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: 0140443398
- The Law of Hywel Dda by Dafydd Jenkins, Publisher: Gomer Press, ISBN 0-86383-277-6
- Medieval Wales by David Walker, Publisher: Cambridge Univ, ISBN: 0521311535
- Welsh Princes, The: The Native Rulers of Wales 1063-1283 by Roger Turvey, Publisher: Longman, ISBN: 0582308119
- The Mabinogi, and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Patrick K. Ford (Editor) Publisher: University of California, ISBN: 0520034147
Wales Fiction:
- The Brothers of Gwynedd: Comprising, Sunrise in the West, the Dragon at Noonday, the Hounds of Sunset, Afterglow and Nightfall by Edith Pargeter, Ellis Peters, ISBN: 0747232679
- Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, The Reckoning (trilogy), Sharon Kay Penman, Publisher: Ballantine, ISBNs: 0345382846, 0345360338, and 0345378881, respectively
- Awen by Susan Mayse, Publisher: Eastern Washington University, ISBN: 0910055378
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