Broken Bow – Aelfric Hort

Source

Based on the Junius Codex / Caedmon Manuscript, 10th-11th century, Canterbury.

Calligraphy exemplar
Illumination style guide

Text

The wordfame of a woodsman wise:

Bold he bends the bow to shoot,

Fine the fletchings on each shaft.

Our cunning King and clever Queen

Give glory to his noble name:

Aelfric Hort, this day declared

A Brother of the Broken Bow.

By Our word and hand done this fourteenth day of October, in the fifty-eighth year of the Society, being two thousand twenty three by the common reckoning.