[Northkeep] re: Device Question

[Marc Carlson]

>From: "Graue, Chris" <Chris.Graue at benham.com>
>So nothing has specific meaning? One could use the leafy thing without 
>being
>"landed" or whatever? Just trying to get an idea, not that I want to use 
>the
>leafy thing... at this time... I was under the impression that many of 
>these
>items actually had some sort of symbolism... even colors had symbolism, or
>so I had thought.

Well, ok, -in the SCA- sometimes things may have specific meanings :)

The partial ring of leaves you sometimes see does have meaning in the SCA.  
Any -group- gets the ring of Laurel leaves in its armory.  People do not.  
Laurels wear them on the token that declares them "Laurels", but that's not 
their personal armory.

Some devices have gathered some meaning to them, for example, the Griffin 
has connotations in the Northern Region of Ansteorra, and by wearing it you 
would be seen as taking a stand in a long standing political debate, whether 
you mean to or not.  But, in general, if you wanted to tattoo a griffin on 
your kids as your device, as long as it doesn't look like the one on all 
those pendants you see people wearing, I doubt anyone would be too confused.

Marc/Diarmaid


>Chris the confused
>this could be a good name for me... Susan the Curious, Zubeydah the
>Wanderer, Chris the Confused, since I can't take the Wanderer (I drive all
>over going to VW campouts)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Carlson [mailto:marccarlson20 at hotmail.com]
>
>Any meaning or symbolism is frequently up to the person bearing the arms.
>Many of the terms you mentioned are tinctures (which is Heraldspeak for
>"colors").  "Azure" means "blue";  Argetn is Silver; Vert is Green and so
>on.
>
>M/D
>
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