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

[Dean MacPherson]

Not sure if this has come up, but a red ghost on a red field. Gules Ghouls Gules!

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Hood <mhood at shaw.ca>
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons
To: Basil <BasilD at lavabit.com>
Cc: summits-heralds at antir.sca.org, avacal_heralds at yahoogroups.com, An Tir Heralds <antir-heralds at antir.sca.org>, Tir Righ Heralds <collegeofheralds at tirrigh.org>

> 
> Or ...
> 
> A ceramic pitcher, charged with a winged serpent, and a goblet, 
> charged with castle.
> 
> A flagon with a dragon and a chalice with a palace.
> 
> 
> uilliam
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Basil <BasilD at lavabit.com>
> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 4:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons
> To: An Tir Heralds <antir-heralds at antir.sca.org>
> Cc: summits-heralds at antir.sca.org, 
> avacal_heralds at yahoogroups.com, Tir Righ Heralds 
> <collegeofheralds at tirrigh.org>
> > 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! :-)
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > ~~Basil Dragonstrike
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