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Table of Contents:
- Greetings from Black Lion Herald
- Greetings from Morel Black Stag
- Greetings from Dexter Gauntlet
- Greetings from Teceangl Ounce
- A Note from Morel
- An Tir Heraldic Symposium
- Black Lion Report from 12th Night
- Court Report From Dexter Gauntlet
- The An Tir Internal Letter of Intent
- December Lion's Blood Meeting Results
- New Submissions
- Return to the IL Archive Page
Greetings from Black Lion
Greetings from Black Lion Principal Herald, I would like to open this letter with a quick reminder of the reporting dates.
Reporting Schedule: Please include branch name, and reporting period in the title of the email. If you send a Word document, please include a RTF or TXT copy as well. I prefer and read Word documents for document files, but Queue Forchee prefers non-proprietary formats so please to send both if you are sending an attachment.
Branch Heralds Report to Black Lion or Principality - END of Month of January, April, July, October
Kingdom Staff and Principality report to Black Lion - 15th of February, May, August, November
Black Lion Reports to Laurel - February, May, August, November - End of Month.
Heraldic Job Openings: To apply send me an email with your mundane and SCA resume to herald@badger.cx and a copy to the current officeholder (email addresses available on the kingdom webpage), or send paper copy to my address from The Crier.
- Lowenmahne, the deputy in charge of Town Crier stuff at crown events, and helping with Field Heraldry and stuff. Talk with current office holder Uilliam for more information. This job will be available at July Coronation.
- Black Stag, deputy in charge of heraldic education in An Tir, and coordinating the An Tir Heraldic Symposium on a yearly basis. This job will be available as of Heraldic Symposium this year in April, but we would like to start training in advance of that.
- Regional heralds!! We are bringing back regional heralds in An Tir! Positions are open for western, rivers, and inlands regional herald positions. The duties of the regional heralds are somewhat TBD at the moment, but I know it will be assisting branches with heraldic needs, collecting reports at reporting times, and fostering heraldry in the region. Spiffy titles to be determined. Please apply now!! People skills a must!
An announcement: Elizabeth Pomegranate has agreed to take on the duties of the Incipient Branch Assistant herald. I'm very happy to have her in this role, as she has tons of experience as both Herald, and Seneschal of the Kingdom and can help a new branch through the somewhat tricky heraldic process for a new branch.
If she calls on you for help, I would encourage you to give it high priority, since the people she is conversing with are the future of this kingdom, and it behooves us to start them out with a good impression of heralds. It saves us lots of head-aches in the long run. I've personally seen what a few bad heraldic experiences can do to a new branch, and it is not pretty or fun to deal with later.
Frederic Badger
Black Lion Principal Herald
Greetings unto the heralds of our great Kingdom!
As you all know, the An Tir Kingdom Heraldic Symposium is approaching. Each year, several wonderful folks volunteer their time and energy to come and teach a variety of subjects related to heraldry at the ATKHS. Travel and accommodations for the teachers is largely at their own expense. This year, eight teachers are traveling over 1000 miles each way to give of their time for the people in the further reaches of An Tir. Not only that, but they are doing this quite cheerfully! I can't thank them enough for the support they are showing to the friendly people of Avacal by making this lengthy trek. Thank you all!
I would also like to thank the teachers who were not able to come this year, though they dearly wanted to and gave an earnest attempt at joining us on our Symposium adventure. We will miss you this year!
Of course, we could not hold Symposium without our thirsty-for-knowledge students, who often come from afar themselves. Your support and enthusiasm do not go unnoticed and are very much appreciated. I hope we'll see a number of new and familiar faces this year.
Morel Black Stag
See below for An Tir Heraldic Symposium Event Copy.
Greetings from Dexter Gauntlet
Are you interested in helping out the OP? If so, drop me a line at op@antir.sca.org. We're organizing OP representatives from every branch of the Kingdom in order to create a working network of people helping to make the An Tir OP both accurate and complete. Even with the advances in the technology used, the 7 person core team, and the hours they've put in, the only real way to make the OP correct, complete, and accurate is to actually talk to people in every branch of An Tir.
I want you to be one of those people. It doesn't matter if there are already 10 people from your branch helping out - we need the help!
But what is needed from these people? The biggest single need is that I or one of my deputies will come to you with a question such as "Does John the Smith still live in your shire?" and you will go and find out the answer. Maybe you know it off the top of your head. Maybe you'll need to call your friend who knows John the Smith better than you do. But you'll find out and give the answer.
Past that, there are as many things to do with the OP as you can imagine. You can do as little or as much as you want to. But every single thing you do to help the OP will make it a better, more complete, more accurate reference for the Crown and Their Kingdom. You can personally see to it that your friend's and neighbors honors are properly recognized.
We're ready to get your help. We just need to hear from you at op@antir.sca.org!
Quentin Dexter Gauntlet
Greetings from Teceangl Ounce
aka 'the editor'
Would you like to see your name and arms in print? Have you an opinion on something heraldic? Can you draw cartoons? Do you teach an heraldic subject you can write a short article about? Have you come upon a better way to do things? Want to share heraldic jokes, anecdotes, or something of general interest? Then write for the Heralds' Page! Anyone's work can be printed, provided it is suitable. This forum is for all aspects of heraldry and we really need more voice content, as well as some humor.
To submit articles, send them to me and Morel Black Stag. Email is lovely, and I can accept just about any electronic format now. Paper is welcome also, as I have no problem retyping new and interesting things for heralds to read. There is no rigid style or format, write your information out in a manner that communicates and know that your content is being appreciated.
I have an oft-repeated old saw that goes something like this: "We are a College of Heralds, and a college is a group of like-minded individuals working together to share information, educate one another, and have the power of the group knowledge and experience to tap into." We all have something to share, you know.
Teceangl Bach
Greetings unto all who read these pages!
A couple of months ago, Teceangl Ounce wrote that I was allowing her to continue helping with the Heralds' Page. How kind and very modest of her! I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
This newsletter is Teceangl's baby. It is she that has put it together and distributed it from the beginning. But, Teceangl has done increasingly more of the workload as I have done less, until we are now at the point where I can no longer be called co-Editor. Now it is Teceangl who most kindly allows *me* to add my tuppence when necessary.
This is a wonderful publication, and I want it said for the record that this is due to the tireless work, resourcefulness, and creativity of Teceangl Ounce.
Teceangl, I humbly thank you for the opportunities you gave me, and I thank you for a publication that is enjoyable both to read and to contribute to. I hope you are proud, because you should be.
Morel Black Stag
[Fine, Morel, if you're not co-Editor then you're Editor-in-Chief, okay? I'll be Managing Editor. -Teceangl]
The war standard of Michele Aquilani da Napoli (aka Monseigneur Eagle), Summits (roughly blazoned: Per fess argent and sable, an eagle Or, on the tierce argent the Cross of St. George.)
An Tir Heraldic Symposium April 17, 2004
hosted by the Barony of Myrgan Wood
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
The Barony of Myrgan Wood invites the good gentles of Avacal, An Tir, and the rest of the Known World to a Symposium of the heraldic arts. A multitude of marvelous activities await you followed by a fantastic feast to close the day.
Are you a branch herald, a voice herald, or do you need to learn more about the subject for your sergeantry trials or your own purposes? We have a variety of classes to suit all of these needs. This year we are offering name classes for a variety of cultures (Norse, Celtic, Russian & Slavic), Heraldry For Non-Heraldic Cultures, and a name pronunciation class (great for voice heralds!). We are also covering How To Be A Consulting Herald, Basic Heraldry, Basic Voice, and Court Heraldry, Russian Illumination, and more! A more detailed class list will be available on the event websites listed below.
Are you wanting to design a device or document a name? A consultation table for you to help you get your device and name approved with fewer surprises and less frustration.
Are you a heavy or rapier fighter? There will be prize tournaments during the day for both heavy fighters and rapier fighters. The tournaments will both be of a heraldic nature and details for them will be posted on the event web sites listed below.
Are you hungry after this exciting day's activities? A feast will be held following the days activities for those involved. There will be a prize for the most heraldic table setting at the feast as well as the most heraldic garb.
Are you wondering where this event will be taking place and what it will cost? The main event location will be Saints Martyrs Canadiens located at 1007 Windsor Street, Saskatoon, SK. Detailed directions will be available on the event web sites listed below.
Site Fee - $8 (children under 16 are free)
Feast - $10 (children 10- 16 pay $5)
Non-Member Surcharge - $4
Cheques payable to: SCA - Myrgan Wood.
Are you from beyond Myrgan Wood's borders? Contact Armatus for arranging crash space and airport pickups.
The Autocrats for this event are:
L. Armatus
mka Andrew Bennett
Ph:(306) 683-4356
abennett@coverall.net
HE Baron Raoul Delaroche
mka Duane Walker
Ph: (306) 651-2599
dandt.walker@sasktel.net
Herald In Charge is:
Morel Black Stag Herald
Ph: (250) 923-9102
bearpaws@island.net
Black Lion Report from 12th Night
(this is a roughish outline, but covers all important points)
Curia Notes:
- I talked about our upcoming Avacal HS, and the out reach we are doing to outlying areas.
- Introduced Christopher Thomas as Contingency deputy.
- Overall health of heraldry in the Kingdom (good in central areas, needs work in outlying areas.)
- OP status.
- Roll of Arms.
- Populace Badges.
- Administrative Handbook.
A question came up about Order names, and Badges for certain awards. I will be investigating this area, since Corpora seems to imply that all of our Order/Award names and Badges need to be registered. We have a number that are not currently registered, and this needs to be looked at.
Heralds Meeting:
First up we talked about the Heraldic Symposium in Avacal.
- I am still working on getting the final details on travel compensation for teachers. I talked with Kingdom Exchequer, and Kingdom Seneschal about, but was unable to fit a Financial Committee meeting into the schedule. They did meet while was in another meeting, and the word is that something will be coming, the details are still being worked out where it comes from, and how much is coming. I should have answers in a week or so.
- I'd like to see an effort while we are at Heraldic Symposium to start up some student/teacher relationships with Avacalians so that once we leave we can continue to educate and promote various aspects of heraldry up there. Once you get a face to face meeting with someone it is much easier to work through email to educate. This is how I learned in the beginning, and with the geographic distances we have to do this.
- Some discussion about sending extra copies of books up to Avacal for some heraldic resources. Also discussion on crossing the border with the stel library. stel is going to be compiling a list of books that we should bring, so we can all bring items from our personal libraries to form a consulting library with out having to bring all of the stel boxes. Which are heavy, and hard to travel over the border with.
- Some discussion about getting a some web documentation information together, such as a collection of sites that are good to use all in one easy place. Also the idea was floated for a bit of information on how to judge a website for quality and usefulness of information. Teceangl's name was suggested since we all remembered emails to the list from on this very subject.
I boldly declared I was going to do the Handbook. There was the requisite laughter that should follow that statement. :) My proposal is actually this: I am going to be working on a Administrative Handbook, with a MUCH narrower scope and work on other elements as time allows. This will include a financial handbook, and also collect BL Policies of previous BL Emeriti in one place.
Regions are coming back, so are regional heralds. Job opens immediately. Looking for Western, Inlands, and Rivers regional heralds. The job description will mostly branch outreach, and report collecting.
After the thaw, Let's TRAVEL!! Once the weather turns better, lets try and get out to the outlying areas more often, coordinating with outlying branches and their neighbors to get turnout. More to come on this as I contact branches for more information on their needs.
A suggestion was made for some sort of way to upload images to a web server so people could show pictures of sample armory easily. I have a script I might be able to and will investigate.
There are two BL staff jobs that will be turning over in the next year: Black Stag & Lowenmahne.
Thanks for everyone's help and support at 12th night, I couldn't have done it without you!
Badger
