[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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