[tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons

[Basil]

Teceangl wrote:
> It's late and I've been sloughing through heraldry and words too long.
>   My brain wandered off and got into trouble when I wasn't paying
> attention.
>
> The motif of 'per bend, an X and a Y' is seen in late period German
> armory (reference Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605, linked from
> http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/german.shtml ).  'Per fess, an X and
> a Y' is also seen in German heraldry, and occasionally English.  (Note
> that charges around an ordinary in period appear to have always been
> of the same type.)
>
> So....  Does that mean you could have:
> a star and a chicken and blazon it 'a mullet and a pullet'
> a vertical stripe and a wooden hammer and blazon it 'a pallet and a mallet'
> a cup and an ornate castle and blazon it 'a chalice and a palace'
> a stone and a means of securing a door and blazon it 'a rock and a lock'
> a transport vehicle and a fire-breathing monster and blazon it 'a
> wagon and a dragon'
> a domestic canine and a toothed wheel and blazon it 'a dog and a cog'
> a pair of hosen and a small wild canid and blazon it 'socks and a fox'
> a piece of footgear and a musical instrument and blazon it 'a boot and a lute'
> a gaming cube and a sight organ and blazon it 'a die and an eye'
> a solar entity and a wine cask and blazon it 'a sun and a tun'

Then there's:
a large member of the deer family and a fowl and blazon it "a moose 
and a goose"

a caprine animal and a watercraft and blazon it "a goat and a boat"

a medium-sized stout-bodied Old World bird and a container of powder 
and shot and blazon it "a partridge and a cartridge"

a blood-sucking invertebrate and a fruit and blazon it "a leech and a 
peach"

a mustelid and a kitchen fixture and blazon it "a mink and a sink"

an insect and a floor covering and blazon it "a bug and a rug"

an ornamental shrub of the olive family and a three-footed support and 
blazon it "a privet and a trivet" If you added a smallish carnivorous 
mammal you could blazon it "a privet, a trivet, and a civet."

a bivalve and pig meat and blazon it "a clam and a ham". If you added 
a young sheep you could blazon it "a clam, a ham, and a lamb"

a large African antelope and a ruined castle and blazon it "a gnu and 
an old"

a ship without sails or masts and a Navajo house and blazon it "a hulk 
and a hogan"


> For that matter, if a default crane in its vigilance maintained a
> rock, and a default roc maintains an elephant, and a default elephant
> maintains a castle on its back, could you register 'a crane
> maintaining a roc maintaining an elephant maintaining a castle'?
> Would you want to?  (Blame this one on Daniel de Lincoln; I 'borrowed'
> it from him.)

And I maintain you are delightfully irreverent! :-)


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~~Basil Dragonstrike

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