medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
No, that's what you are saying! I am just reciting the information which I acquired in the church.
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture on behalf of John Briggs
Sent: Thu 17/08/2006 09:46
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saracen's head
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
What you are saying is that the heraldic crest is a Saracen's head - I am
not aware that they are traditionally strangled.
John Briggs
Postles, Dr D.A. wrote:
>
> No doubt some of you will be troubled by the reference to the
> saracen's head - in fact, I should, of course, have said that the
> knight's head rests on the head of the strangled saracen, with the
> saracen's tongue hanging out. A better image is now:
>
> http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pot/temp0/sar.html
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