[ANSTHRLD] bodkins

[Mor ingen Cathail]

Some Documentation of bodkins used in period:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/qq53/page6.htm (no bibliogrpahy)

Roger Ascham. Toxophilus, Reprited by Scholarly Press, Inc, 22929 Industrial
Drive East, St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080, 1545.
Adrian Eliot Hodgkin. The Archer's Craft. Faber and Faber Limited, 24 Russell
Square, London, 1951.

London Museum. Medieval Catalogue. \newblock HMSO Books, London, 1967.

Margaret Rule. The Mary Rose: the excavation and raising of Henry VIII's
flagship. HMSO Books, London, 1982.

http://www.regia.org/bow.htm (Regia Anglorum is another medieval reinactment
group)

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html (Online transcription of "Paradonxes
of Defence", by George Silver, Gentleman.London,Printed for Edward Blount.1599.

Yours in service.
Mór

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg" <rygbee at montana.com>
To: <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] bodkins


Mór scripsit:

> the artistic license of drawing a bodkin after passing
> could come in by registering/emblazoning it as an
> "arrowhead" yes?

     Could be, though the group submitting it would have to realize that the
armory would likely sometimes -- and also correctly -- be drawn with
"regular" arrowheads.  If they decide that having them be "bodkins" is
important, they'll need to look into documenting the specific depiction.
[If no heraldic depictions of bodkin-type arrowheads can be found, other
period depictions differentiating them from other arrowheads might still
allow them to be registered/blazoned as such.  Documentation on period
weaponry should be a good place to start.]

     There's a pun there somewhere about what the probabilities are for
finding what's needed -- odds bodkins -- but I'll let it pass.


Your honours in dutie.

Brendan
----
Or as a badge idea: [Fieldless] A pheon pean.
;-)>


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