Numerous Society heralds maintain personal websites, blogs, or equivalent online publishing channels for SCA heraldry-related articles, posts, or other resources.
Some of these are widely cited resources, while others are less well known. A few are considered authoritative, but most just represent one herald’s opinion.
Examples
There are too many to list.
Here are some examples of popular armory resources:
- Period Armorials Online by Iago ab Adam.
- Heraldry at Poore House by Cormac Mór.
The no-photocopy list in the Admin Handbook provides more examples:
- Articles by Aryanhwy merch Catmael at www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names.
- Articles by Alys Mackyntoich at alysprojects.blogspot.com.
- Articles by Effric Neyn Ken3ocht Mcherrald at medievalscotland.org/scotnames.
- Articles by Gunnvǫr silfrahárr at www.vikinganswerlady.com.
- Articles by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada at medievalscotland.org/kmo.
- Articles by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn at heatherrosejones.com/namemenu.html.
- Articles by Ursula Georges at www.yarntheory.net/ursulageorges.
- Articles from the Sisterhood of Saint Walburga at st-walburga.aspiringluddite.com.
Technology
Many disparate platforms, including hand-edited HTML, WordPress blogs, and online document services.
Future Possibilities
Better Indexing: There are lots of useful online resources that aren’t yet listed in the various article pages on the College of Arms website. Because those resources haven’t each been reviewed in detail and are subject to change over time, they can’t be considered authoritative, and we don’t want to publish a directory that might mislead submitters or new heralds into thinking that they can just open some random herald’s blog and treat it as gospel — but we should be able to help interested heralds find more of this material.
Collaborative Publishing: There are some resources that could benefit from allowing several people to contribute to them. For example, a couple of experienced heralds have assembled lists of IAP submissions, but it’s a struggle for one person to keep those perpetually up to date — perhaps if that content was available on a collaborative platform where a few other experienced heralds could contribute additional items to it, it would be easier to fill in gaps and keep such a reference up to date.
