[ANSTHRLD] {TH}orkell {o, }lf_ss - chevron braced with one inverted, both ensigned

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com> wrote:
> taking the idea that during my rough period ( well within the SCA
> timeframe) i presumed that any single plane ordinary can be pierced
> in such a manner.

It's hard to do extrapolation -- determining a pattern and deciding
what other items fit the pattern.  In this case, we have only a signle
period datum (assuming Papworth's is correct), and you can't
extrapolate a curve from a single point.  All we can say from this is
that there's one known example in England, and it had a bend piecing a
chevron and nothing else but plain tinctures.  That doesn't justify
any other pattern on its own.

> i then took 2 chevrons and peirced them.  then looking at line
> treatments i found an example ( Argent, a fesse dancetty with a
> cross formy issuing in chief gules--Arms ascribed to Reginald
> FITZ-JOCELYN, Bp. of Bath and Wells, 1191.)  rationalizing that
> dancetty was similar enough to a single chevron i blazoned the
> chevron as issuing.

Again, that's extrapolating from one example. Parker mentions another
ensigned chevron, as I recall, which gives us two points, and I'd bet
a small amount that there are other examples of charges issuing from a
chevron.

> now, a ermine spot can be used singularly as a charge,

The examples of ensigned that I've seen so far are a
(demi-)fleur-de-lys and a cross.  Those are two of the most common
charges.  An ermine spot as a charge is rare, and I've never seen
taking part of an ermine spot.  (Except for one example, the strewn
pattern known as "estencelly", but note that that's a known pattern,
and one example.)

> i assumed that the spot had a "head" and "tail" the tail is pointing
> toward the fesspoint

"Fess point" is in the middle of a shield.

I'm not sure why I didn't think to do a Google Images search before to
confirm or refute my memory.
<http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Templates/Fields/index.htm> has a
"direct scan from Friar's" [Dictionary], a reputable source, of dozens
of different styles of ermine spots.  Some don't have dots, and some
appear to point in the opposite direction from the more usual ermine
spot.

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