[ANSTHRLD] Wherein Snorri Bangs his Head Against a Wall ...

[ravenrux at cox.net]

I've seen tierced (in pale, in fess, pall) in several books.  I've been told by SCA heralds that it's just not period style and should be reblazoned.

BTW, this thread is getting so long, I keep expecting the Norns to show up and weave it into the fabric of time.

Masamune
  
From: Teceangl <tierna at agora.rdrop.com>
Date: 2004/02/03 Tue PM 09:34:31 EST
To: Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net>, 
   "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Wherein Snorri Bangs his Head Against a Wall ...

> 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
-- 
   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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