[ANSTHRLD] Wherein Snorri Bangs his Head Against a Wall ...
Teceangl
tierna at agora.rdrop.com
Tue Feb 3 18:34:31 PST 2004
> You can have it; it's just not blazoned that way. It has been established
> since at least the 1980s that "paly of three X, Y and Z" is reblazoned as
> "Per pale X and Z, a pale Y". The major effects of this are that it adds
> another layer, and affects tincture rules. You can't have paly of three
> gules, vert and azure, for instance, because that's a color bend on a color
> field -- even though you intended it as just a color field.
Well, since I've never seen any period or post-period mundane heraldic
treatises save one (and this one assured me that a fleur-de-lys is intended
to be a headdress of some sort) use tierced in a bend/pale/fess division, I
tend to believe it's not real.
> If there's a specific precedent, it is from Ioseph of Locksley or earlier.
There isn't. I went all the way back.
- Teceangl
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This would give a headache to any herald who had to look at it long
enough to blazon it. (KFW, 11 Aug 77 [14], p. 6)
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