Unfortunately due to real world conflicts, I missed the induction of one of my favorite people to the Order of the Silver Crescent yesterday. However, I was there in spirit because I provided the text.
The paragraph break is due to how this scroll is calligraphed and illuminated. The first paragraph is set out separately as an introduction (sometimes in red rather than black), and then there is a large illuminated A for the start of the second paragraph.
Ivan, by right of arms, King of the East, and Matilde, by the same right his Queen, to the dukes, counts, viscounts, barons, seneschals, provosts, justiciaries, bailiffs, all in the present and future to whom these letters will come, greetings.
As it is known to all with no need of persuasion that, in order to safeguard peace, it is especially effective to commit the truth of things done to the memory of letters. Therefore, we have granted and confirmed in perpetuity by this our present charter to our beloved and faithful servant Æsa feilinn Jóssursdóttir the statue, estate and repute of membership in the Order of the Silver Crescent, along with all such privileges, rights, immunities, freedoms as any other member of the Order aforesaid. And we do further instruct, command and ordain that the said Æsa shall bear hereafter upon her person the sigil and badge of the aforenamed Order, so that all may know the esteem in which she is held in the lands where our authority holds sway. That this our grant may have perpetual authority and full strength, we have had this document read aloud and marked with our ensigns manual. Dated at Nordenhalle upon 3 February in the fifty-second year of the Society.
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