[Ansteorra] heralds in court
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Jun 30 20:16:04 PDT 2003
Chandra wrote:
> Some have brought up modern niceties like sound systems. Sir Burke,
> the one
> at ATYC was not a bad thing -- that hall is hideous for acoustics, ...
Agreed. sigh.
> Of course, a more period solution is to make use of the herald --
> that's
> what he's there for. Master Modius is to be commended for his habit,
> when
> heralding, of explaining to the populace what is transpiring in such a
> way
> that they can hear it and feel that they're witnessing something
> instead of
> sitting and waiting for it to end. I know of other court heralds who
> are
> good about this as well and I applaud them all.
Yes, I think proper use of the heralds is a wonderful thing. I'm not
sure that all halls or situations are amenable to this though.
Another problem may be the experience level of the particular herald(s)
or the lack of enough heralds. I know that the number of field heralds
available at many events has been falling.
One of my attempts to improve the number and quality of heralds in the
SCA has been to host these well-written articles on field heraldry by
Don Alden in the HERALDRY section of the Florilegium:
F-Hldry-Trnmt-art (12K) 1/12/03 "Field Herald’s Litany for
Tournaments"
by H.L. Alden Pharamond.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/HERALDRY/F-Hldry-Trnmt-art.html
Field-Herldry-art (48K) 6/ 9/02 "Field Heraldry" by H.L. Alden
Pharamond.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/HERALDRY/Field-Herldry-art.html
I think some of the topics discussed in these files might also be
appropriate for court heralds.
Even anyone is interested in trying either field or court heraldry,
read these articles, talk to your local herald and consider helping out
at your next event, perhaps as a field herald.
And, if someone wants to write me a article specifically on court
heraldry, I would certainly be willing to consider hosting it in the
Florilegium as well.
Stefan
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