Alhdryð ceorlstrang

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Registered Name: Alhdryð ceorlstrang Resides: Glaslyn Status: Active Joined SCA:
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Alhdryð ceorlstrang
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Honorable Lady Alhdryð ceorlstrang

Pronunciation: ALL-drith CHAY-earl-strong
Previously Known As:
Nickname(s):
Pronouns: She/Her

Offices:

• Local Offices Held
  • Glaslyn Seneschal (Current)
  • Glaslyn Chatelaine

• Regional Offices Held

• Kingdom Offices Held
  • Co-Cultural Deputy (East Asian Cultures) to Minister of Arts and Sciences 2023 - 2025
  • At-Large Combat Archery Authorizing Marshal (current)

Interests:

• Bookmaking and book history
• Hatmaking
• Combat Archery
• Pre-contact Mesoamerican and Caribbean foodways
• Ikebana
• Featherwork
• Fighter support

Timeline of Activity:

Prior Groups:

• Briefly played in Westliches Land (Osaka, Japan) in 2015

Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

• Event Steward for the 87th Crown Tournament
• Co-Steward for the 90th Coronation
• Event Steward or Co-Steward for Glaslyn Defender (2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2025, 2026)
• Fall Coronation 2019 (Co-Steward with Astrid Flokadottir)
• Spring Coronation 2025 (Co-Steward with Machteld van den steinhuse)
• Glaslyn Artisan of the Flame AS LX
• Baronial entourage for Ekaterina Iadorovna Kharlampieva, Peter & Sarah, Baudoyn & Katherine, Sean & Esme, Absolon & Silvana

Service through the Arts

• Created tabards for Phoenix Company
• Won bid in 2024 to replace the Elfsea Artisan Cloak, hand-sewn linen with applique and couched gold cord embroidery

Teaching/Instruction:

• Suminagashi: Japanese paper marbling
  • Steppes Artisan 2025
  • Kingdom Collegium 2025
  • Gulf Wars 2026
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2024
  • Kingdom Collegium 2024
  • Steppes Artisan 2024

• Making Your Feathers Fancier: 16th Century Featherwork in Portraiture and Practice
  • Kingdom Collegium 2026
  • Gulf Wars 2026
  • Elfsea Baronial College 2025

• Making German Berets/Making 16th Century Bonnets
  • Gulf Wars 2026
  • Kingdom Collegium 2026

• Middle Eastern Dance for Fighters
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2025
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2024
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2023

• History of Non-Western Bookbinding
  • Elfsea Baronial College 2023 - lecture with folding handout
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2022 - lecture with folding handout

• Making Japanese Garb - Muromachi period Hakama
  • Elfsea Baronial College 2023, a 4-hour hands on class with sewing machines available for use

• Making Japanese Garb - Muromachi period Kosode
  • Elfsea Baronial College 2024, a 4-hour hands on class with sewing machines available for use

• Fabrics 101
  • Glaslyn Artisan 2025 - lecture with hands-on "petting zoo" of swatches

• Inspection for Combat Archery zine
  • Steppes Warlord 2026

• Welcome to Ansteorra! a guide to its groups zine

Judging:

• Shadow Judging:
  • Gulf Wars 2026 (with Magnifica Beatrix Funteyn)

Competitions Entered/Displayed:

• 2026: Invited to display at the Gulf Wars A&S Open Competition, received a prize sponsored by HRM Cristyana.
• 2026: Displayed a body of work including 16th century men's hats and slashed wool Landsknecht garb at Laurel's Prize Tournament.
• 2026: Displayed the centurion cloak of Clauß fuchs von Nurenberg at Battle of the Pines.
• 2025: Enters a 16th century elite man's hat in Kingdom Arts & Sciences, received a score of 45 and a pilgrim's token.
• 2025: Enters a body of work including 16th century hats, centurion cloaks, and Pavia Landsknecht garb at Steppes Artisan.
• 2025: Displays a body of work including Pavia Landsknecht garb, centurion cloaks, suminagashi, and research on Classic Mayan tamales at Laurel's Prize Tournament.
• 2025: Enters the Kingdom Middle Eastern Dance Championship held at Laurel's Prize Tournament, received a token from Biatrichi Canzionari di Palermo.
• 2024: Enters the newly-made Elfsea Artisan Cloak in the Elfsea Baronial College competition.
• 2024: Enters a body of work including Pavia Landsknecht garb at Glaslyn Artisan, awarded Keeper of the Flame of Arts.
• 2024: Enters a body of work including Landsknecht garb depicted in the Battle of Pavia Tapestries at Steppes Artisan.
• 2023: Enters Wah(t’s) for Dinner?: Recreating tamales of the Classic Maya period at Glaslyn Artisan, awarded Keeper of the Flame of Arts.
• 2022: Displays two 16th century Italian garb ensembles at Glaslyn Artisan.
• 2015?: Displays two pieces of embroidery at Glaslyn Artisan.

Non-Armigerous Awards and Recognitions:

• 2025: Awarded the Portcullis of Elfsea
• 2025: Awarded a Forest Light of the Steppes
• 2025: Awarded a Boar's Tusk of the Steppes for Combat Archery
• 2025: Awarded the Eastern Tower of Elfsea for hand sewing, while hand sewing
• 2024: Awarded Glaslyn Keeper of the Flame of Arts
• 2023: Awarded Glaslyn Keeper of the Flame of Arts
• 2023: Awarded a third Acorn of the Steppes

Gallery:

• Various Projects
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Affiliations:

• Married to Delfina de Borja
• Member of Wanderer's Hall
• Member of Phoenix Company
• Member of Steppes Warband, prior to its revival as Ironwood Company

Mundane Information:

• Alhdryð is mundanely an art museum librarian. She is always happy to assist with research and obtain hard-to-find resources.

In Case of Court:

Prefers to be surprised, but please contact Delfina de Borja to make sure she is there/family are present if possible for significant awards or announcements.
For Scrolls: Please no faux hands.