
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Ep 13 "Oh the banners!": of sigils and heraldry
In this episode, your hosts take you on a journey to medieval and not so medieval Europe to explore the rich world of heraldry to compare it to its Westeros counterpart: sigils.
Who gets to have a coat of arms? How to pick your doodle? What are the rules? Are imaginary coat of arms a new thing?
We discovered so much we didn't know about, it was an actual delight to learn so much -and hopefully you enjoy learning with us. It's not just pretty images, but it is *also* pretty images. And identity.
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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!
Sources:
Virginie:
- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge : "héraldique", article par Michel Pastoureau
- http://chroniques.bnf.fr/archives/sept2002/numero_courant/manifestations/pastoureau_inter.htm
- Blasonner en latin (xiie-xvie siècle) - Michel Pastoureau https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/21154?lang=fr
https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/110
https://books.openedition.org/pufr/16462?lang=fr
- Les Armoiries de Paris - Marc DECLERCK
- Le Blason des Temps Nouveau - Catalogue de l’exposition
- Armorial de la ville de Paris
https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/image/ba845ff7-2c3b-4a38-b1dd-02cfefe6a771-armorial-la-table-ronde-1
http://quetedugraal.over-blog.com/blasons-des-chevaliers-de-la-table-ronde/
https://herald-dick-magazine.blogspot.com/2015/09/la-quete-du-graal-dans-les-manuscrits.html?m=1
Lo:
https://varumarkesmanual.uppsala.se/tillampningar/uppsalas-stadsvapen/
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_stadsvapen
“Heraldiken i Sverige” - Magnus Bäckmark & Jesper Wasling
8 months ago
Yes! Even your states have them! George just didn’t want to bring us joy. That’s all. Obviously sad. 😩 I think you’re our most iconic ever listener? Beating even our Kazakh listener in dedication (they caught up in two separate occasions, whereas you binged through it!) (dear Kazakh listener: you’re still our most incredible listener to have!)
8 months ago
Honestly: you’re definitely right!
8 months ago
That’s right -but that’s all war stuff. Not fancy dinner stuff, and no tapestry either. Very sad!
8 months ago
Also also - there’s a few notable examples of people in Westeros using their sigils in their armor/clothes - The Hound’s hound helm, Victarion’s kraken helm, Robert had stag antlers on his helm, and Rhaegar’s black armor had a dragon of rubies on his breastplate
8 months ago
Also my new personal head canon is that Marge Mormont has the erection axe bear as her personal standard
8 months ago
We have “official seals” for county/states/et al in the states. And they are sometimes on the trash cans too. Also I’m caught up!