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Sir Gerard de Rodes:
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--- Quote from: Sir Gerard de Rodes on 2010-12-03, 20:58:49 ---Sir Ancelyn,
Really nice choice. Can I ask if there is a reason why you wish your Lion Rampants to face the sinister side?
Sometimes this was seen as a bad omen or a denotation of some dishonourable act somewhere in your family history. Very much like the reversed bendlet.Although you will probably not find this information in popular modern literary sources, it was a common way to interpret sinister facing devices at the time.
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I went through a similar justification process when I was deciding on mine, since mine has nearly everything in sinister. I found some great passages in google books that talked about exactly that, and the sinister portion didn't frequently mean that. Occasionally, but not as a rule. In fact, in churches it was customary to make all of the effigies face the altar, and so the arms would be reversed on many of them to make sure they wouldn't face away. So most of the time it was a stylistic choice and was regarded as such.
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Yes Sir Ed I had heared similar things, but haven`t heard of the Church link before, nice find.
--- Quote from: Sir Ancelyn on 2010-12-03, 21:19:22 ---Well, in part not to look identical to a dozen other lions. I am also thinking lynx. Also, my clan did a fair bit of thieving along the English borders. Sinister enough. :-)
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LOL sinister enough LOL :D
SirNathanQ:
Sir Ancelyn, I love the COA! Break down of the symbolism if you please! ;D
And yeah, times are scarier. I think it may be that everyone now has the capacity to tell about 1000 people in a day about the horrifying hearsay. Things travel fast. Scary things travel faster. ;)
New website? could someone provide a link?
Sir Edward:
--- Quote from: SirNathanQ on 2010-12-05, 03:16:31 ---New website? could someone provide a link?
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The domain is the same, it just points to the new website's server instead of the old one. http://orderofthemarshal.org/
Sir William:
So far, so lookin good, Sir Edward.
Sir Robert:
Wow, you have all been very busy indeed! I have been very absent over months, much traveling, non of which at my own accord. In any event this is a great idea! We often see each other at Faire, it would be great to see you all otherwise as well.
I had an interesting experience I would share, I am a Den Leader and was asked by the scoutmaster if I would help with a ceremony known as the Blue and Gold, they had chosen a medieval theme and he heard I was the one to talk to. I of course thought that was great and said that I would do a Knighting Ceremony for the boys crossing over.
The day arrived; my squire and I donned our armor and waited for the sign. About halfway through the meeting the cub master asked the audience if wouldn't it be great if they had someone from the medieval time period to talk to them about what scouting had in common with those days, like a knight.
Thats when my squire and I came onto the stage from behind a curtain, Sir Baden Powell actually developed his ideas for the Boy Scout Laws and Oath from the ideas held by knights in their code of chivalry. It was a great experience for the boys and the parents were very impressed. As a volunteer I never thought it would have been so warmly received but it makes me think that maybe its time that our code of chivalry is starting to gain audience again and in a day of instant gratification and selfishness, maybe the time of service is growing an audience again.
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