Re: Help reading Rietstap Armorial entry

> In medio rec.heraldry aperuit Anton Sherwood os suum:
>> It may help to remember that in French blazon the tinctures are
>> nouns (substances) rather than adjectives.  <Vert> is an adjective
>> (still the usual word for `green'), and so it cannot be a noun.

Francois R. Velde wrote:
> That's true in modern blazon, but Chrétien de Troyes uses "vert"
> in his blazoning (Chevalier de la Charrette, v. 5784):
>
> Et veez vos celui dejoste
> Qui si bien point et si bien joste
> A cel escu vert d' une part,
> S' a sor le vert point un liepart
> Et d' azur est l' autre mitiez?

And even here the syntax makes `vert' an adjective and `azur' a noun.


(!Ob: In the SCA, a new branch once wanted to call itself "Cote d'Vert".
I've no idea what name it ended up with.)

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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/