[ANSTHRLD] Heraldic Activities at Events

[Joseph Percer]

Greetings!

Are you coordinating heraldry at an event? Autocratting? There was a
thread on SCA Heralds earlier this week that stood out to me and this
one in particular seems interesting, so I wanted to pass it on in the
hopes of seeing more heraldic activities at our Ansteorran events. The
missive was forwarded with permission from Green Anchor.

Andrewe


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wayne Patton <wayne-patton at uiowa.edu>
Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: STuff To Do
To: SCAHRLDS at listserv.aol.com


On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:46 PM, LEWIS WOLKOFF wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I'm in charge of heraldic activity at a one-day regional event this fall.
>
> I'm planning on a consulting table, and I was wondering what sort of "different" heraldic activity might be included.  Some possibilities are a best heraldic garb competition, a heraldic "Simon Says" (Simon says, "show me Rampant"), and a best BAD heraldic display competition (argent, a frog tergiamt vert, overall three palets dancetty sable).
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Two activities that Three Rivers held at their late lamented Carousel events:

Field heraldry "Telephone"  - The team members stand at a considerable
distance from one another and relay an announcement up the line. The
team which accumulates the fewest transmission errors wins. With
careful writing of the announcements, this can be fiendishly
difficult.

A book heraldry game with a similar principle  - The first team member
is shown an emblazon for which he must write a blazon. That is given
to the second member who must draw an emblazon. The third member must
blazon that, and so on. (Obviously each successive player hasn't seen
the previous iterations.) With five or six team members, this can be
very interesting, not to mention enlightening as to how some weird
variants come up in period heraldry, like the chess rooks to cups
someone posted recently.

       Gawain of Miskbridge
       Shadowdale, Calontir



-- 
Joseph M. Percer, AAS, LP