SR - Naming the region
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Wed Aug 19 22:00:54 PDT 1998
(Please let me re-emphasize the difference between
- period style
- SCA-registerable, the hard requirement
- my personal preferences, and a priori why should anyone care?
If I seem to blur the distinction, please let me know.)
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, maddie teller-kook wrote:
> but why should we do something that has been done over and over
> again in the SCA?
The SCA Ordinary (7th ed.) has 20 pages of cats out of 1100, about 1.8%.
(That's every coat of arms registered in the SCA that has a cat
anywhere on it.)
_Anglo-Norman Armory II_, the known English armorials from circa 1300,
has 67 pages with lions as primary charge out of 550, or 12.2%.
(That's only with lions in the center, but doesn't count lions off on
the side or on other things.)
The comparison above is somewhat apples-and-oranges. But I can back
it up subjectively, having glanced at every Ansteorran submission for
the last 5 years. In period terms, we are way *understocked* on
lions. Those who have an interest in periodicity must obviously lobby
vigorously to use as many lions as possible! "Semy of lions, on a
fess between six lions a lion passant, on a chief three lions each
charged on the shoulder with a lion"!
> Let's try and do something original and that which we can call our own.
I half-agree. I want something that
- differs from SCA cliches. A few examples:
- no crossed swords
- no "Lion's / Dragon's / Falcon's <body part>"
- no "X haven"
- no Scandinavian / Celtic / Anglish [sorry to harp on this last]
- no fantasy-like names
- follows period cliches. A few examples:
- geometric charges on arms
- lions on arms
- personal name / surname + geographical feature
- non-S/C/A
I want something that looks ordinary to a period person but that makes
most SCA people take note (and SCA heralds boggle or cheer). For
example, several arms ideas on the web page fit that: one's practially
a crib from 13th C. Germany but it would shock an SCA herald to see
something that simple pass. A few names fit it too (for example,
Campoleone is apparently period, yet see how few SCA branches have
Italian names).
Daniel de Lincolia
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