Elska á Fjárfelli

Mistress Elska serves Æthelmearc as the head of the kingdom Brewer’s Guild, as the kingdom Deputy Minister of Arts & Sciences, and as a kingdom-level advisor and judge at various arts and sciences competitions after twice-winning the Ice Dragon Pentathlon arts and sciences contest. As of Dec. 10, 2022, she also holds the position of kingdom archery champion.

She was elevated to the Order of the Laurel for her research and writing about brewing, soap, and mead. You can follow her endeavors on her blog “A Booke of Secretes.”

Elska has written on soap, mead, and brewing and published through the SCA’s Compleat Anachronist series, including To Make Black Sope and Of Hony: Brewing Medieval and Renaissance Mead.

She has also graciously made available her collection of handouts from classes, workshops, etc., and is willing to let others access them.

Elska also enjoys archery and equestrian activities a great deal.

Order of the Laurel badge: Fieldless, a laurel wreath vert.  Order of the Millrind badge: Fieldless, a millrind argent.  Order of the Fleur d'Æthelmearc badge: Per saltire gules and Or, four fleur-de-lis in cross counterchanged.  Order of the Golden Alce badge: Fieldless, a stag's head cabossed per pale gules and Or.  Order of the Keystone badge: Or, on a keystone gules an escarbuncle argent.  Order of the Sycamore badge: Fieldless, three sycamore leaves conjoined in pall, per pale gules and Or.  Fieldless, on a barrel palewise proper, an escarbuncle argent.  Award of the Golden Escarbuncle (Service) badge: Fieldless, On a goutte de sang an escarbuncle Or.

Device: Or, on a sun sable, a mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet argent, issuant from base a mountain vert.

Or, on a sun sable, a mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet argent, issuant from base a mountain vert.

Woman in Viking garb.
Mistress Elska á Fjárfelli. (Photo by Bedwyr Danwyn)
Dec 12, 2022 @ 3:47 pm