[MR] hedgehogs and porcupines (Needwood Archery)

[Fen & Michelle]

As for Porcupines...
 
" The symbol of the Needwood Forest Company of Archers is a porcupine. The idea of adopting the porcupine as a symbol is older than the Company itself. Originally, Æþelwine of Ealdgythesleage proposed (jokingly) that the local archery group should give out an Order of the Porcupine award for people that moved across the firing line to retrieve their arrows before the shooting was done. Later, when the idea of the Company was being bantered about, the porcupine idea rose again. After some Google research, we learned that the porcupine/porpentine idea was more appropriate than we first realized. Teresa de Çaragoça discovered that Louis XII used the porcupine in a badge (see below) with the motto "cominus et eminus" (from near and far), based on the porcupine's purported ability to be dangerous both far away and close up (it was believed at the time that porcupines could throw their quills)."
 
http://www.needwood.org/index_history.shtml
 
Our badge resembles the Saxon sceats pictured there.  Also, our on our banner:     http://www.needwood.org/index_gallery.shtml

We have membership cross-baronial. Mostly Roxbury, Storvik and Highland Foorde. We're just a casual guild for those who love archery and love shooting at wacky novelty targets.
 
 
Cheers
Fen
Vinetar
Needwood Company
 
"Atlantian Archery. Nothing exists within 100 yards without our permission."
 
 
>House Hedgehog, in Northern Atlantia. Most of them live in Highland
>Foorde.  Badge / device is Argent, a hedgehog rampant voided, armed
>sable, orbed and  langued gules (if I remember the image right).
>
>Here's a random pic from Highland river Melees a year ago. It's from a
>gent by mundane name of Eli White:
> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1146/4723301190_754833a650.jpg