[MR] Spring Crown Tourney - Roll of Arms Competition

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

I am once again sponsoring the Roll of Arms competition at Crown Tourney.
What is a Roll of Arms, you ask? The online Encyclopedia Brittannica defines
a Roll of Arms as "(an) illuminated manuscript describing (blazoning) and
often illustrating (emblazoning) the arms of persons present at a particular
battle or tournament." 

The rules for the competition are simple. Using the registered heraldry for
the combatants, prepare a manuscript depicting the entrants to Their
Majesties' Crown Tournament, with the final pairing and the eventual winner
denoted. For example, your page might contain 14 small escutcheons of all
the entrants by rank, then 2 larger escutcheons of the finalists, with one
even larger escutcheon of the winner, listing the names under each
depiction. Poems or songs depicting the tourney progression are also viable
as entries. 

For visual examples, please see the following links of historic Rolls of
Arms and past winners of the Atlantian Roll of Arms Competition:
http://www.silverdragon.org/HERALDRY/ZurichRolls/zroadt2v.htm 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hyghalmen_Roll_Late_1400s.jpg
http://scribe.atlantia.sca.org/gallery/RollOfArms/index.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8407825@N02/525082139/ 

A final list of entrants can be obtained on the day of Crown Tourney, and
will also be posted to the Merry Rose immediately following the event. Those
interested in entering the competition will have until June 1st to send me
their entries. Entries should be prepared on appropriate 11x14 scribal
mediums (suitable for inclusion in the official Roll of Arms book).


Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill
Triton Principal Herald
House Corvus, Atlantia