SR - Proposed Heraldry

[Martin, Brian]

Hello All,

With all of this discussion about lions, has anyone mentioned multiple 
lions on the arms? How about lions in the same position as those on 
the royal arms of England? (I don't know the heraldic terminology.) I 
must say that I like the idea of the black star issuant from base.

Pendaran

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From: 	Dennis Grace[SMTP:amazing at mail.utexas.edu]
Sent: 	Tuesday, February 24, 1998 11:17 AM
To: 	southern at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: 	Re: SR - Proposed Heraldry

Salut, Cozyns,

Lyonel aisai.

HE Pendaran asks:

>As I was somewhat inundated with Principality posts, I didn't read 
all
>of them. However, I am interested in the ideas put forth for 
heraldry.
>What are the prevailing ideas at the moment? Sorry to ask people to
>recap for me but I really would like to know.

Lions, naturellement, have been the principal charges discussed. 
 Several
versions of gold lions sejant or rampant upon sable , sable semy of 
mullets
Or, and pean have been broached.  Sir Kief suggested a lion's head 
affronty
erased.  Daniel de Lincolia counter-suggested a lion's face 
(caboshed--no
neck).  I personally think the lion's face (sans neck) looks too much 
like
a door-knocker.  Several folks have sugested keeping a pair of sable 
stars
(of the Ansteorran variety) upon a gold chief or something of the 
sort.
Aquilanne proferred a mullet of five greater and five lesser point 
issuant
from base (which, on a sable background would, I suppose be Or).

The lion rampant is aggressively period, but I think we'd have a bitch 
of a
time avoiding conflicts.  The lion's head affronty allows the artists 
a
certain amount of license with facial expressions.

lo vostre por vos servir
Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace
recovering herald

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