In the days when Nigel was King and Adrielle was Queen, it
once happened that an armourer came before them and greeted them. And the king
and queen received him well and asked him his name. The man said he was called
Joffr Rödson, son of Röd. He asked if he could stay awhile among the retainers.
The king and queen granted him that and assigned him a very worthy seat. Joffr
was pleasant and polite and well liked by all. He worked diligently on the
growth of the king and queen’s lands, and they were both well pleased with him.
At the end of the year, when gathering for a yule
celebration, Nigel and Adrielle held a court and called Joffr Rödson before
them, and gave him an arm ring and the right to call himself a lord of the people.
And Nigel’s skalds took note that this occurred on the
thirtieth day of November, in the Canton of Bryniau Tywynnog, at Wassail, in
the forty-eighth year of the society.
By THLaird Colyne
Stewart, based on The Tale of Toki Tokason, 13th or 14th
century, trans. Peter Tunstall, 2005.
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