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Originally Posted by celtan
... The early armourers were mostly spanish muslims, like famed Julian del Rey. It is said that they couldn't have used a dog as a quality symbol, because in their culture, a dog was considered a dirty, lower type of animal. It is thus more likely that the symbol represented instead a wolf, and that subsequent folklore instead denigrated it to a "perrillo", or literally a "doggy"...
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Well, the number of interpretations was quite vast; a dog, a wolf, a goat and eventually a lion. It all depended from the author's point of view. After all, the drawing shown by Palomar in his nomina was his own hand copy of the animal engraved by Del Rey in (some of ?) his swords; it didn't have to be so faithfull to the original.
Tell me Don Iravedra, do you know an article on this subject written by Germán Dueñas Beraiz ? It is quite interesting.
A pity is written in Castillian, not so practical to be perused by non Spanish speaking members.
I have it in PDF format; too heavy to attach here. But if you wish, i can email it to you ... and to those others also interested, obviously.
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