[ANSTHRLD] Sable Dragon
Christie Ward
val_org at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 4 10:35:44 PST 2005
Seamus said:
>I will say that from a court heralds point of view that I very much
>like the Sable Dragon.... It does not denote a type of fighting and it
>is very broad and awe inspiring.....
Unfortunately, if you go to the SCA ordinary and look at sable dragons,
there are 103 registrations that use black dragons:
http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/cgi-bin/oanda_desc.cgi?p=DRAGON%3asable%3a1
Dragons are very much an SCA armory cliché and, as I understand it,
four-legged dragons do not appear in English heraldry until the late 16th
century and I think are fairly late elsewhere also. Wyverns (two-legged
dragons) were used in English heraldry from the early 14th century, but
they're folded into the sable dragons above and are likewise heavily used.
I suspect that trying to come up with a badge using a sable dragon would be
a challenge.
::GUNNVOR::
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