[MR] Crown Tourney Roll of Arms Competition - Reminder

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

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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.  Illuminated 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/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8407825@N02/sets/72157605322242503/

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 December
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