[Sca-cooks] steins and dolmans?

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sat May 28 12:37:01 PDT 2011


De said:

<<< The original device was returned because the laurel wreath was  
upside-down and the heralds of that time said there was no such thing  
as beer steins foaming proper, so the guys used dolmans instead of the  
steins and up righted the wreath. >>>

And I made the (bad) assumption that they went from one type of  
drinking vessel to another.

De corrected me by saying

<<< A dolman, think a section of Stonehenge or a stone door frame or  
the whitethings on the black.

http://heraldry.griffin-dor.org/groups/Emblazons/Standing_Stones.gif

The current graphics on their website has the laurel wreath looking  
black, it's suppose to be green so here is someone else's graphics. >>>

Thank you. And thank you for the clarification on "stein".

<<< A stein/beer stein has a lid. And is suspected to go as far back  
as the 1400s, maybe even 1300s. Indication of existence is a law  
passed after the plague which required containers to have a cover, but  
so far as I know there are only steins from the 1500s found and are in  
museums. >>>

Oh! I had thought the lids were a post-period affectation or tourist- 
thing. So is that the difference between a "tankard" and a "stein"?

Stefan

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