[MR] Crown Tourney Roll of Arms Competition

[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