[ANSTHRLD] help with a submission

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

Selina of the Wood scripsit:

> sable, on a chevron raguly or, 3 gryphon heads
> erased facing dexter vert

     Blazon fu:
Sable, on a chevron raguly Or three gryphons' heads erased vert.

     Since, as Daniel noted, to dexter is the default -- the way it
automatically is unless specified otherwise -- it isn't necessary to write
that part out.


> one more question, if _vert_ is not totally "period",
> what is the correct term for the green heads?

     "Vert" is, indeed, the period heraldic term for green -- what Daniel
was saying is that green itself wasn't used nearly as often as black, white
(/silver), or the primary colors, red, blue, and yellow (/gold) in period
heraldry.  That doesn't mean it's not period to use green, just that it was
comparatively rare.

     From what he mentioned, a "raguly" edge treatment was apparently even
more rare.  If your client is concerned that his device might have been
considered unusual in period, he might think about whether he wants to use
both rarities.

     On the other hand, if the green and raguly are important to him, their
relative infrequency isn't going to make the device unregisterable or
obtrusively modern-looking.  It's not the individual submittor's job to make
the SCA statistics work out the same as in period.

     [If I'm repeating points already discussed (this time around), my
apologies -- I haven't seen any posts on this list since the one I'm
responding to, so I'm wondering whether they've gone astray.]


Your honours in dutie.

Brendan Pilgrim
----
"There are lots of things much more common in the SCA than in period:
literacy, personal armory, monarchs still alive after their reigns. . . ."
(Such things -- unlike chainmail bikinis and pointy elf ears -- share with
the rarer tinctures the fact that of course they actually occurred in
period.)