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Re: heraldric question (fwd)


Poster: Robert J Welenc <rjwelenc@erols.com>

At 05:47 PM 11/18/98 -0500, lp12546@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU wrote:
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>Poster: lp12546@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU
>
>For those of us who are heraldricly stupid, what is gyronny?
>
>Slan,
>Brighid Ni Chillin

Lack of knowledge is not stupidity, m'lady.  Gyronny is a field
division of (usually) eight pieces, like a pizza cut horizontally,
vertically, and on both diagonals.  In bad ascii art:

_\|/_
  /|\

By our rules, the pieces must alternate metal (white or yellow) and
color (red, blue, black, green, or purple).

Alanna

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