Toki Redbeard's poem

Toki Redbeard, King's Bard, wrote this for the occasion of my recieving my writ. It makes me choke up.

Abutted Stanza for Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa

Well-armed she is with knowledge,
wisdom for the sharing,
of the gold from gardens
green. The forest teaches.

With meat, wine and spices
well-fed are the mead halls,
made eager by herb-sweet
air. The cook-pot teaches.

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Russian ceremony stuff from Olearius

From The travels of Olearius in Seventeenth Century Russia. Translated and edited by Samuel H. Baron. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967), p. 52-53. It refers to events in 1634:
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