[Mid] The meaning of blazon...er, well, sort of?

>> It can go too far. I have seen some arms that have so many quartering
>> additions they make one's eyes cross.
>
> I've seen some "normal" SCA arms that make my eyes cross! [hint:
>anything which, blazoned, starts out with "gyrony..." is generally headed
>for trouble.] :)

Aak! Shandra, you had to say "blazoned?" Gee, that reminds me... (as the
populace ducks, =en masse,= realizing Aunt Rhi's got yet another story to
tell...)

Many years ago, the first Northwoods Baronial Championship consisted of a
number of trials -- fighting prowress, poetry writing, best wolf call (you
have to know Northwoods)...and a trivia contest.

The final question on the trivia test (extra credit) was "Blazon the
Northwoods arms." *

One of the contenders was a young man rather new to the Society, who hadn't
the vaguest idea what "Blazon" meant. He was, however, a fairly gifted
artist. So he cartooned the Northwoods arms -- with the wolf's head
screaming "Yipe!" as it reacted to the sight of a very large Bic bein'
flicked...

The scorers gave him full credit, as I remember.

Rhiannon Ottersdale

* Out of curiosity, Master de Folo, if you're reading this -- why does the
graphic file of the Northwoods arms, as used in the =Pale,= depict the
Baronial arms with a laurel wreath in chief it doesn't have and without the
canton of the Kingdom arms that it does?

From: Ree Moorhead Pruehs <rpruehs@ismi.net>
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