After Sir William Coeur D'Boeuf was killed in the fall of 1984,
(William was the first chivalry member made by a Calontir
King), Sir Erich and I mourned his passing, for he was a bard
of the first order. Ever ready to drink a beer and sing a song.
Oft if you were in eye shot he would adlib you into the lyrics
seamlessly. When I think of the great campfire bards of
Calontir, I include him.
Anyway, his mundane name was Fesselmeyer, and his device had a
heraldic pun I am not competent to reveal. It was frequently
used as an example of creative heraldry.
So Erich and I thought, one sad postrevel soon after he left
us, that nothing would please him more, or be more fitting to
immortalize him, that slipping Fesselmeyer into the Old Dun
Cow, which had been his very favorite song, and do so in the
manner he had done so to us so many times. Thereafter, Erich
has always led us in the "Fesselmeyer" shout where the second
or third "MacIntire" shout should be.
And so that is why we shout Fesselmeyer in the Calontir
Version.
That, you will not find in any of the online versions or
histories that I know of.
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William Coeur do Boeuf ( , a fess between an elm tree and an eye, all Or = Fess;Elm;Eye Or = Fesselmeyer, his mundane name.