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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So after being reminded that there's no CD in
gyronny and gyronny arrondi, I'm back to the drawing board. I think once
before, months ago, I put a post to the list asking for advice and design
suggestions, but my PC's crashed twice since then and I've slept once, so here I
am again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My goal, being the Good Herald that I am, is to try
and come up with armory that is evocative of my persona, that being late 900s
Iceland. (The most accurate thing would of course be to have no armory
whatsoever, since Iceland's not exactly a heraldic hot spot, but then I'd be a
Bad Herald.) So in doing a bit of research (meaning Gunnvör did all the
research and I went to her website and read a page - thanks again, my friend)
I've come up with the following Plans of Action to design good, registerable
armory.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Plan A: Field-primary armory, created from the
following subset of elements:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tinctures: gules, Or, sable, argent,
azure</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Field divisions/treatments: paly, fretty, gyronny
arrondi, lozengy, per saltire.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Plan B: The above, plus one of the following
ordinaries: orle, pale, chief, fess, saltire</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Plan C: In lieu of Plan B, Plan A, plus one
of the following groups of charges: horn (1 or 2 crossed in saltire), axe (1 or
2 crossed in saltire), bear (1, argent only, position irrelevant), longship (1,
metal only), wake knot (1, metal only).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My new armory is hidden in there somewhere ...
let's see if we can find it together ... you, me, a great armorial quest ...
we'll get Judi Dench or Ian McKellan to play you ... and, um ... Bob Hoskins for
me, I think, in the movie version ...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Banging his head against the wall again (does it
show?),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Snorri</FONT></DIV>
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