Tis said that many a generation ago a forbear of Our Mad Queen, Rosanna, did in this manner acquire the original piece that now stands as the badge of our guilde.

He was a king besieged by a Viking warlord, this Viking a king in his own right, but a warlord with little war left in him, for upon arriving to our good fathers lands he simply made to surround the castle and did little else. No war machines were constructed, no scaling ladders made or erected, no firebrands launched. Twas a weary warlord and his tired and hungry men that did lay siege to our ancestral home that eve, and so pitiful the sight of them that our father was moved to open his gate and welcome the Viking king to his table to sup, and his men were fed well and good.

It was in this manner that these two kings did become fast friends and did spend many a day and eve together in good company, as did all their men. So long was their stay that some of the Viking men found love and married, while others found love and did not, but stayed nonetheless.

In time it came to pass that these good friends would part; the Viking king and those remaining men who had not settled would leave our fathers shore aboard their strong ships and set a course for their own homeland. Twas on the morn of his departure that the good Viking Lord did present a gift to our father in the fashion of a piece of silver jewelry, an heirloom of his own that would survive all the generations, and loss of written record, to become a symbol of pride and friendship of the family Radnier.

Today it is worn with that same pride and sense of friendship and love by the members of Guilde de Radnier, and proudly so by those of us inducted into the care and keeping of Our Mad Queen.