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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Tadhg's ten word blazon test
- Message-ID: <725261481.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:39:02 GMT
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- In a message to All, Graydon wrote:
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- G> Greetings!
- G> Tadhg, are you advocating blazons that only work well in the
- G> Anglo-French style?
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- Yeah. Do you have a problem with that? (Many do... that's why I'm such
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- a popular guy...)
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- G> While I agree that short blazons are a good sign, I have to
- G> wonder about all the things in Rhiechstap (sp?) that use
- G> field divisions that just plain don't exist in the
- G> Anglo-French terminology. It's pretty hard to argue that
- G> German heraldry wasn't a common practice!
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- But it still wasn't spoken of in polite company ... (Oh, sorry, I
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- promised Bruce I wouldn't do that any more.) The point is that the
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- "core" of our "period" is Anglo-French. If more people took German
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- personae, then perhaps I would be willing to consider German practices
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- less eccentric, in an SCA context. I'll bet that if you took a gander
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- at the Armorial you would find more Norse names than German, by a
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- factor of about three. (Looking at the Armorial, one would think that
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- Wales and Germany had swapped surface areas -- not to mention
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- Scandinavia and Iberia...)
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- G> Or are you arguing that we should only use those elements of
- G> style that all the major heraldic art styles had in common?
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- Works for me. 8-)
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- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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