[Sca-cooks] Queens Battle!

[Olwen the Odd]

Thanks for the correct spelling.  I was pretty sure I had it wrong.  And
thanks also for all the information.  I guess it's a go then for me to do
something with the little buggers.
Olwen
>
>Well, the fleur-de-lys (note spelling - it means "lily flower") is
>not just a European thing, either !!! It appears quite commonly in
>Mamluk heraldry. And there are examples that predate the Crusades, so
>it appears to be a motif that is "native" to Egypt, although no one
>seems to know what the Egyptian name of the motif is, so for
>convenience it is called "fleur-de-lys" in literature on Mamluk
>heraldry
>
>Anahita
>10th century Maghribiyya/Andalusiyya who spends a fair amount of time
>studying the Mamluks who ruled Egypt and the Levant from 1250 to end
>of SCA period (ok, ok, so Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in
>1517, but they left the Mamluks in charge of the regions they had
>ruled previously and the culture didn't change much there in the 16th
>c.) because there's more stuff that survived in Egypt than in my
>time/place
>
>Oh, yeah, and also a herald...


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