#inghean

[thejoyofseax]

Féile na nÚll Menu & Analysis

I had really meant to publish the menu before the event, but ingredient acquisition took more time and effort than expected. In particular, chestnut flour, which I wanted as a thickener for various gluten-free dishes, just could not be found anywhere I tried. I didn't find that out with enough lead time to order it online. Almond flour substituted, and was fine.

Anyway. Here's the full menu, which fed varying numbers of people, but I think about 45 for the feast.

Travellers' Fare (Friday evening): Beef stew with bread and butter (vegan stew on the side, plant butter available, GF bread available).

Saturday Breakfast was produced by the inimitable Lady Meadhbh Rois inghean Uí Chaoimh.

Saturday Lunch: Chicken soup (vegan soup alongside), bread, fruit.

Feast: Roast pork (vegan nut roast on side), Frumenty (rice on side), apple sauce, green sauce, meat pies (mushroom pie on side), creamed leeks (with fake cream), buttered turnips (with plant butter), roasted onions, purple carrots (with plant butter), olives, anchovies, apple pies, blackberry and apple pies (all pies with GF/vegan versions as well, where possible).

Sunday breakfast: Porridge with cream and fruit, stewed apples, boiled eggs, cold ham, and various leftovers, mostly fruit pies.

The emphasis here wasn't on any particular production of period dishes, but on making sure everyone got good solid food. It's also an entirely plausible English Tudor menu, including the frumenty and green sauce as dishes that didn't make it through the Early Modern. As far as I can make out, everyone enjoyed it (although nobody ever tells the cook they didn't). The coeliac and vegan/vegetarian folk expressed particular approval, which was important. Anything I could make GF and vegan was made so (plant butter and almond flour are the two main tricks here).

Gabrielle and Katie were in the kitchen every hour I was, and possibly a few more, and a great deal of credit for the weekend's food being on the tables on time is due to them. Katie also set in, with very limited prior experience, to making pastry for the non-gluten-free pies, and produced some of the best I've ever encountered. She's been designated Head Pastrychef in Perpetuity as a consequence. There were also many other kitchen helpers, who've been thanked appropriately on Facebook. The relevant note here is that we had 4-5 people in the kitchen at most times, which was more than enough, and kept everyone relaxed. The SCA Kitchen playlist (85% mine, 15% Gabrielle's) was also helpful.

So. The first thing that I want to improve is the gluten-free pastry. Making it vegan as well was trivial; replace the lard/dripping with plant butter, and it's absolutely fine. Any fat will do for that, it seems, although since the traditional use for the pastry is the raised pork pie, the meat fats help match the taste. The gluten-free flour, however, could only be persuaded to make a paste, not a pastry - trying to roll it out into sheets simply didn't work. It would take the form of a sheet, alright, but if I went to pick it up, it just broke. An experimental version that Gabrielle and I did before the event could be sort-of lifted into place on baking parchment, but it broke over the contents of the pie. In theory, with a very dense, relatively smooth pie filling (such as a meat pie that's been well-packed), you could get a coherent crust, but I don't know what would happen to that as the contents shrink in baking. Xanthan gum appeared to make zero difference.

So we've some more experimentation to do there. One suggestion is to use an egg or two, which will take it away from being vegan - but a vegan pastry, using plant butter instead, should not be a problem to produce as an ordinary cold pastry. Various things will be trialled.

The green sauce came out particularly well. Órlaith did her usual superlative job of chopping herbs, primarily sorrel and mint, with some basil and thyme, some black pepper, and garlic salt. The liquid base was about 2 parts olive oil to one part white wine vinegar. We only made a small amount, but nearly all of it was eaten. Green sauce is basically a table condiment for the latter end of the SCA period in Western Europe, and I have vague plans to make and bottle some at some stage, to see how it keeps and matures in the longer term.

I made far too much of the frumenty. Bulgur wheat isn't terribly expensive, so I don't feel too bad about it, and the carbohydrates are absolutely the area in which to over-provide. But for my future reference, about 400g of dry bulgur will provide enough for about 30 people without difficulty.

The roasted onions were surprisingly popular. I think we did 11 whole onions, and only one and a half came back to the kitchen.

The meat pies disappeared in their entirety, as far as I can tell. One was a combination of minced pork, minced lamb, and whatever vegetables were to hand; the other was filled with the remnants of Friday's beef stew. I was very pleased to be able to integrate leftovers into the feast; I am completely certain that a rolling use of leftovers in subsequent days' dishes was a standard feature of any period cookery, and we don't often get to do that over a weekend.

The purple carrots were entertaining. I can't detect any difference in taste from orange carrots, but they stain everything they touch a nice shade of purple-blue. I'll get them again if I can just for that.

Overall, I'm pleased with how things came out, and I'll do either of the Arabic or Pre-Norman Irish menus I had partially worked out for next year.

#sca #sca kitchen #féile na núll #medieval food #medieval cookery #tudor food #pies #gluten-free medieval food #vegan medieval food

[moiraimyths]

really nitpicky tiny question, sorry about this, but: how do surnames work in TNN? 1:1 medieval irish? lots of macs, nics, etc? are surnames like aife's, shae's, and maeve's family names, rewarded to someone in their past family, or were they given recently?

There are a lot of Macs/Nics and Ós/Uís. Not always, but in many cases. Occasionally, in cases where someone really wants to establish a connection to an ancestor, you will see something like "inghean Uí" - such as in the case of the tailors.

"Troiduair" is an epithet. Maeve does not have a surname. "Féarglas" is a family name, but it was originally an epithet bequeathed to some ancestor. Their mam could probably tell you the tale. And "Ealabhán"... sure is what Aífe said her name was!

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[loyaltyfallen]

Vessels

Aoífe inghean Uí Conghalaigh

While not their first vessel, Aoife was one of their most significant, staying with Castiel for more than 1000 years. Her distant descendant, Bridget Connolly, emigrated to America during the Great Famine in the 19th century where she married Czech Boheman immigrant Josef Novák, introducing the Novak name into the bloodline. Aoife and Castiel parted ways when they were ordered to lay siege to Hell, though they have remained in touch.

In the verse with @loyaltyhunted, this was Castiel's vessel when they raised Aurora.

Helen Novak

Josef and Bridget's granddaughter and the great-great aunt of Jimmy Novak, Helen briefly served as Castiel's vessel during a mission to deal with the alleged nephilim child of Lily Sunder in 1901. Castiel left her shortly after and Helen returned to her life.

James "Jimmy" Novak

Castiel's primary vessel, whom they approached on the orders of Heaven after raising the Righteous Man from perdition. An ad salesman and family man from Pontiac, Illinois, Jimmy was killed and taken to Heaven when Castiel was smote by the archangel Raphael, though his body was recreated by God for Castiel. Jimmy's fate, and that of his family, is one of Castiel's greatest regrets.

Due to the unusual circumstances of Castiel's multiple resurrections, and the state of their grace, Castiel has a stronger connection to the body they now inhabit than most angels.

Claire Novak

Jimmy's daughter, Claire served briefly as Castiel's vessel as a child after they were ripped from Jimmy and dragged back to Heaven for disobedience. Castiel left Claire at Jimmy's request, taking her father once more. They found her again many years later, and has taken a protective role towards her, seeking to make amends for the fate of her family and fullfill the promise they made to Jimmy.

#the vessel (visage) #main faces #more might be added

[asoiaf-fancasts]

Alysanne Blackwood - Fancasts

Age: 16 - Unknown Age

Appearance: She is tall, thin with long black curls. Not a noted beauty.

Character [s]: Queen Iseult & Inghean

Actress [s]: Charlie Murphy

Show: The Last Kingdom [2015]

Movie: Northman - A Viking Saga [2014]

[In both show and movie she is too old for Alysanne during the civil war given she was in her mid 20’s. She is not tall but she is thin. She has dark brown hair that can pass for black that is curly in the show and wavy in the movie. She wears medieval ish clothes.]

#please suggest other fancasts #alysanne blackwood #alysanne blackwood fancasts #asoiaf fancast #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #fancast resource

[ignisregina]

Aoife, Brigid's Cloak

Aoife (ee-fa) of the Inghean au Dagha | feat. Erin Kellyman

Of Brigid's Firekeepers, Aoife was second in rank only to Daighre and has been training as a keeper long before the latter arrived in the temple. Though born to a wealthy family, Aoife's childhood had not been easy. On the night of her birth, it was said that the Morrigan - in her crow form - trilled a song that bound Aoife to death and destruction. Her mother died as soon as she pushed the child out of her womb, further solidifying everyone's belief that Aoife bore ill luck.

It was her being chosen as one of Brigid's maidens that rekindled her hope for a brighter life, happily leaving the family who, while they did not bear her resentment, also felt no strong love for her. Day and night she toiled to learn how to serve the goddess with such dedication that the community believed she was to be the head of her order in the near future, especially when she was given the cloak of Brigid. She became a master in the arts of healing and medicine, by the favor of the goddess along with her skill. But season passed into another and such announcement did not come. One spring day, a new maiden, Daighre, was brought in and whispers that she was the goddess' flesh and blood followed her. To Aoife's disappointment, it was on the newcomer's shoulders did the responsibilities she most coveted fell.

Despite her dismay, Aoife's loyalty to Brigid did not falter, even extending that same fealty to her sister by bond, albeit begrudgingly. However, it was in the Battle of Mag Tuired that her mettle was put to a test when the end of the fomori hinged on the sacrifice of their lives. In the final moments before Balor was sealed, Aoife somehow survived with her life. While the rest of them perished, Aoife went on through the centuries, using her healing arts to prolong her existence, and disappearing from the knowledge of mortal and divine, both. After all, she has given enough of her life to Brigid and would like to live on her own terms.

This longevity did not come without its costs - foremost of which is the guilt, moreso when she witnessed the revival of the fomori. Perhaps something went wrong in the seal because of her, she often thought. But more often did she blame the other survivor, the one whose hands should have ended Baalor and his kin. In the recent years, she sensed that Daighre's soul had returned as well, to her surprise, as she believed her sister's spirit to now reside in Mag Mell. She vowed to end the fomori once and for all, and will not allow Daighre to once more be the cause of the wasted sacrifice of all who died in the battle. Unlike before, she would not relinquish rule to someone unworthy of the power.

#(.blood of the moon on us all: sisters) #(.long ago and far away: lore) #(.i know who you are now: headcanon)

[warbornhq]

welcome to trasnavda , blodeuedd verch iorwerth , sadhbh inghean uí bhroccáin , vasilka dragola ! be ready to present yourself to the king in 24 hours , follow the checklist and keep your wits about you . cara gee , danielle galligan , billie piper are now taken !

cara gee . demi woman . she / they . wasn’t that blodeuedd verch iorwerth walking the palace grounds ? it’s nice to see the ottolan spy out and about on such a fine day as this. i’ve heard from the court spies that they are notoriously illusive, whilst also managing to be quite sibylline. the thirty-nine year old is eager to find out who exactly is behind the killings from what’s being said at court. i heard that they themselves aren’t vrajiit. it’s funny, whenever i think of them, i think of an ear, pressed to the knots in the floorboards, heeding what sorrow this house has to spill; ( “ burying the bodies before they even know ⸺ ” ) echoing diaphanous and wicked, their song of ash, and of blood; spun in the cobwebs, swept up into the empty corners, like dust / it’s grief caught in the rest of her throat. ( in every shadow she sees only ghosts, “ haunt me, then! ” ) tender heart, a thing kept hidden: inside of a needle, inside of an egg, inside of a duck, inside of a hare, locked inside of an iron chest, and buried beneath what is bitter and rot ( is this how one becomes deathless? the self bleeds away as ink to water, until even her body is not her own, but one of many: each to fill the role worn before her, on and on and forever ⸺ not a person, but effigy, to the docious and ephemeral, always razed and made again ). and a bend towards detachment, “ sometimes i feel like i’m not solid, i’m hollow, there’s nothing behind my eyes, i’m a negative of a person. ” great to see the ophelia around, isn’t it ? 

danielle galligan . demi woman . she / they . wasn’t that sadhbh inghean uí bhroccáin walking the palace grounds ? it’s nice to see the master assassin out and about on such a fine day as this. i’ve heard from the court spies that they notoriously tenebrous, whilst also managing to be quite adroit. the thirty year old is eager to find out who exactly is behind the killings from what’s being said at court. i heard that they themselves are vrajiit ( poison manipulation, hallucinogenic venom ). it’s funny, whenever i think of them, i think of a portrait of gentility as masquerade; its glaze peeled back to expose all manner of machination, what horror may be hewn in dark corners ⸺ many palms outstretched in perversion of grace, and each to be washed of their death ( and an itch, lingered, to look over one's shoulder; for that which follows across oceans of time, for what lies in wait when the lights go out ). the sea’s cool breath, and how it would beckon, faint song of shorebirds and salt clung to skin: a life before the great flood of red, but so thinned with age ( with harm, all softness leached out ) it has all but spilled from their hands ( there is no returning, there is nothing left, " this house is a corpse ⸺ that makes you the maggot." ) and the hand now a thing profaned, possessed not for care but molding, to provoke: fear, obedience, a distant heart ( and like the rabid dog, this creature he has birthed, she will bite ⸺ into the meat of him, and take what she is owed, with blood and with teeth ). great to see the instrument around, isn’t it ? 

billie piper . cis woman . she / her . wasn’t that vasilka dragola walking the palace grounds ? it’s nice to see the sister to the king and socialite out and about on such a fine day as this. i’ve heard from the court spies that they notoriously mercurial, whilst also managing to be quite magnetic. the forty-one year old is eager to find out who exactly is behind the killings from what’s being said at court. i heard that they themselves aren’t vrajiit. it’s funny, whenever i think of them, i think of the tender swell of soused laughter, gossamer whim and all cast in flush; an unlovely world become dreaming, and to be the lotus eater ⸺ indulge only pleasure, milk and honey ( and allowed by virtue of their gentle blood, as black as it is proud ). one's face turned against the void that is burden of rank, its cruel rend toward event horizon from which there is only loss ⸺ of self, and so, of everything ; this despair, to be made distorted, ( and still endures the hope for their favor, a fetid thing, bored through her and left in its wake: a singular, aching obsession ) the last, loathsome apple of a tall and crooked tree. and hunger chased with no heed to consequence, the world narrowed to feeling: skin too-tight, and yawning want, a surrender to one's own ruin; anything to fill and fill and fill her up, this aberration, this chasm between herself and what is good, what is human ( “ something is missing from me. and i can’t. i can’t. ” ) great to see the sybarite around, isn’t it ?

#appless rp #oc rp #mumu rp #new rp #period rp #fantasy rp #medieval rp #rp #accepted #chef's kiss 2 these fc choices imo

[medievalscribals]

Illumination by Margaret inghean Domnaill of An Tir (me!)

Inspired by MS M.969, "The Crusader Bible," from Northeastern France during last quarter of the 13th century. Accessed through The Morgan Library & Museum.

#illumination #my art

[cowboygirlfriends]

Do you have any fave Gàidhlig poets? preferrably women but if there aren't any men are fine ig

iseabail ní mheic cailéin - Éistibh, a Luchd an Tighe-se is like, an extremely horny poem. regardless of if you subscribe to the "she was criticising the sexual sins of priests at the time" viewpoint, it's still extremely horny.

maighread nighean lachlainn - good for mentions of the jacobite uprisings

aithbhreac inghean coirceadal - she wrote the earliest known documented poem in classical garlic by a woman (it was an elegy to her husband)

meg bateman - ealghol da shealldh is one of my favourite poems.

sìleas na ceapaich - i think i like her work so much because it kind of bridges the gap between traditional/classical and newer techniques

anne frater

màiri mhòr.

màiri nicgumaraid who wrote my favourite garlic poem (o uinneag chòir) and my close second (an taigh-tasgaidh ’s an leabhar)

#answered #book rec

[katerinkalvovicha]

Baron and Baroness of the Court for David DuPont and Clara inghean Uilleim

Ciaran and Elis, by right of arms and inspiration, King and Queen of Northshield, keepers of the north pole, protectors of the inland seas, and champions of the right and good, to all to whom these letters are seeing or hearing, greeting.

For as much of you, David DuPont and Clara inghean Uilleim, have gone these many years at our service, holding our lands in Castel Rouge in good faith, to maintain our presence in this, our most treasured northlands, and it is known that through perseverence and kindly works that it has been maintained by your means and conduct, therefore it is but just and reasonable, that since you have so long toiled and withstood many dangers to serve us, that you should be recognized for it. And we being willing to honor and favor you for the reasons adoresaid: our will is, that you, Clara and David, after defending our said castles and manors in said lands for us and our predecessors, shall be henceforth and forever recognized as a baron and baroness of our court and you shall be known to all people in all places to be one worthy of our favor, and shall exercise the employments of this station, and enjoy the perequesites and salaries belonging to the said employments in the same manner. Moreover, by this our letter, and by virtue of our intent, all shall treat you in all respects with the honors, graces, and concessions which are due to you, and to observe these completely, so that nothing be diminished, and make no objection to this, our sovereign right. Forasmuch as we form this time forward, by this our letter, bestow upon you the estate of the baron and baroness of our court, and none shall presume anything to the contrary, upon pain of our displeasure, and forfieture of a minimum of three puns to be used as names for future events. This is our certificate and seal that we may know that our command will be obeyed.

Given at Life Begins after 50 on the 4th of September, in the year of the society 56

Ciaran Rex Elis Regina

Based on the Privileges and Perogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus, 1492

[maurawrites]

Charlie Murphy as Inghean in ‘Northmen: A Viking Saga’

#charlie murphy #charliemurphyedit #inghean #northmen a viking saga #perioddramaedit #periodedit #mine

[fassophy]

Charlie Murphy in The Last Kingdom and Northmen: A Viking Saga

#charlie murphy #iseult #The Last Kingdom #Northmen: A Viking Saga #Inghean

[zuzcreation]

Icons of Charlie Murphy as Inghean in Northmen: A Viking Saga (x9)

#charlie murphy #inghean #northmen: a viking saga #icons #200x200 #echodesplaines #perioddramaedit #100disorders #y: 2020

[indisden]

Charlie Murphy as Inghean (Northmen)

#charlie murphy #charlie murphy actress #inghean #northmen #avatars #middle ages #moyen age

[1863-project]

I made an OC server, added PluralKit, and have allowed Richard, Edmund, and Aibhilin to have free reign in there and they're all already being disasters

#The World Turned Upside Down #1640s #Richard Feversham #Edmund Oxenbrigg #Aibhilin inghean Chuinn

[1863-project-art]

Ah, yes, Bastard and Bastard Jr. (aka Richard and Aibhilin). I’m about to script the part where they sneak into the Putney Debates together and Richard spitballs Oliver Cromwell, so this felt appropriate.

#artists on Tumblr #1640s #The World Turned Upside Down #Richard Feversham #Aibhilin inghean Chuinn

[writing-and-characters]

For @freccels

#Imogen #Feminine #Characters #English #Gaelic form Inghean #Maiden #Character prompt #writing inspiration #writing prompt #writing #editing