Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> It's forever and half an hour since I read anything about heraldry,
> but if memory serves traditional heraldry up north recognizes two
> "metals" - _guld_ and _silver_ -, four plus two "colours" - _röd_,
> _blå_, _grön_, and _svart_ (="black") plus _brun_ and _purpur_, and
> a pair of "furs" - _hermelin_ and _gråverk_, one of them the white
> -with-black-dots you see on the inside of royal robes and the like,
> the other something greyish.
These last are called "ermine" and "vair" in English, and perhaps in
French too, I don't know.

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