heraldry

[luciab]

My household name (Casa Bellini) and badge have passed Kingdom and been submitted to the College of Arms. The change to my arms passed, too. I'll give you all this in English rather than herald-ese: The household badge is a black background with white brush and a quill pen crossed, and a gold bell at the center top. My arms will be a black background with a white cat rampant and three white bells across the top, and a gold border around the whole thing. Whee!

In less exciting news, I'm reading for my mid-term tonight. To be specific, I'm re-reading an araticle he said we should be familiar with. It was written in 1944, and I don't know if we've gotten dumber since then or what, but I"m having a hell of a time with this thing. Some of the sentences are 100 words long. To give you an easy comparison, that first paragraph up top is only 86 words long, and it's four sentences and an exclamation. Sigh.

Comments

[syaldia.livejournal.com]

huh, I didn't know you had made a household.

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Some people told me I had created a household the minute I took Livia as an apprentice. I decided to make it official after taking Sunneva, too. I don't plan to take over the kingdom, though. ;>

[syaldia.livejournal.com]

The C&I invasion!! Run for your... erasers.

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Ah, but we can destroy with a quill pen and some oak gall ink.... your puny eraser can't touch that!

[harleenquinzell.livejournal.com]

maybe YOU don't.. Sunneva and I however ..

[luciab.livejournal.com]

You obviously have more energy than I do! Even if I wanted to take it over, I would definitely not want to be in charge. Yer on yer own....

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

I don't think we're dumber so much as less patient. Modern media, I think, fractures ones attention span, as does trying to do 10 zillion things at once.

[skippyclese.livejournal.com]

I would have to agree with that. I have trouble watching tv anymore, the camera work sometimes makes me dizzy.

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Well, and I have trouble with multi-tasking anyway. The problem I was having with that text was that I had to hold several different parts of the sentence in my head at once, and be able to sort out which one modified what. I think I should have diagrammed the damn things.

[anonamys.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think you've been doing this for a long time: even though I know what you mean by a cat "rampant", I suspect the vast majority of those outside the SCA would not consider that the "english" version. Then again, the vast majority of those outside the SCA would have no frigging clue what you were talking about. :)

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Okay, Miss Smarty Pants, here's the NON english version, just for comparison's sake: "Sable, in saltire a paintbrush and a quill pen argent and in chief a bell Or." and "Sable, a catamount rampant and in chief three bells argent within a bordure Or." 95% of the SCAdians need THAT translated. And "catamount" always gives me a double take-- I think it's catamite every time. Gives me quite a turn.

I think my readers are mostly SCAdians anyway, but maybe I should tag for non-SCAians or something.

I think I knew what "rampant" was in re a heraldic animal pre-SCA, though. That's a pretty common one, at least relatively speaking.

Me, I always get a smirk out of "my arms." A change to my arms.... what, did they grow an extra elbow? 6" longer? What? And the fighters get "new legs" for their armor, but given the knee troubles that are so common, maybe new legs isn't too far off the mark.