Re: A tree blasted

[tryggvi@xmission.com (Tom Olsen)]

>At 08:36 5/22/96 -0400, Alfredo el Bufon wrote:
>>
>>I happened to be looking at the on-line armorial the other
>>day when two pieces of armory caught my eye:
>>>    Myrkewoode, Barony of
>>        Ermine, a tree blasted and a chief wavy sable.
>>    Lochmere, Barony of
>>        Ermine, a tree blasted and eradicated and a chief wavy
>>        within a bordure sable.
>>>My questions are two:
>>> How is it that two separate Baronies (possibly in two separate
>> Kingdoms) have such badges or devices that are so similar to one
>> another?
>>> What do these symbols signify, and who bears them?
>
>snip<
  
>        After the merge the arms for both groups were adapted for Lochmere's
>award badges.  The Blasted Oak cited above is our service award; Arindale's
>arms (Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron and in base an eagle's head
>erased within a laurel wreath argent) became Vert, on a chevron above an
>eagle's head erased argent, two feathers sable, for the Order of the Eagle's
>Feather, our A & S award.  The blue crab on Lochmere's own arms became
>Fieldless, a pair of crab claws azure maintaining between them a sword
>gules, for the Order of the Crab Claw, to honor those who bear all forms of
>weapons in Lochmere's defense.
>        The arms for Myrkwude and Arindale were not released; Lochmere still
>holds them and flew all three banners at our recent On Target Archery Event.
>
>                                                In service to Atlantia and
>Lochmere,
>                                                Alanna Volchevo Lesa
>                                                Pursuivant, Barony of Lochmere
>                                                
>

Was going to put my two cents worth in here but was beaten to the punch!  Hi
y'all from way west of there.

tryggvi; X-Crabby Baron (from the outside looking in)
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