So I was reading this blog and the woman behind it had a coat of arms on her contact page. This coat of arms was created by some crazy enthusiast who is carrying on the lions rampant, balls bezant argent and c. He offers to make you one--you simply have to fill in an online form--so I did (o vanitas)
Quel est votre devise?
Ne pas éssayer c'est con.
Vous êtes plus métal, fourrure ou minéral?
Fourrure.
Quel est votre principale qualité?
Patience.
Quel est votre principal défaut?
Orgeuil.
Quel sont vos rapports avec la gente féminine?
Marrié a la belle dame Syminton d'Edinbourg.
Etes vous pacifiste ou belliqueux?
Pacifiste.
Que ce passe t'il si on vous cherche?
L'environement se transforme en un mélange relevé d'échapement enduro et épices proivrées, le tout arosé d'un bon Bourgogne.
Vous sentez vous attirer par les armes?
Comme par le péché. Je lûtte, je lûtte...
Que pensez vous des coutumes et des traditions?
Drole de question. Sans coutumes il n'y aurai pas de révolutions et sans tradition, pas de révolutionaires.
Quel animal (oiseau, mammifère, reptile) vous caractérise le plus? Et pourquoi?
L'âne ou l'ours
L'âne parce que je me sent perdu mais je m'obstinne quand-même,
l'ours par ses qualités physiques.
Citez moi le nom d'un chateau?
Dunnottar Castle.
Votre mois de naissance?
Janvier.
A vous la parole, que souhaitez vous ajouter?
Je suis typographe.
C'est a dire que je suis amateur des entreprises humaines qui investissent le plus grand effort dans les plus petittes chose.
A vous, citoyen ;-)
Dug
Comments (2)
Lau,
The following from a University of Edinburgh web page:
The shield is blazoned as Argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled Sable, masoned of the first and topped with three fans Gules, windows and portcullis shut of the last, situate on a rock proper. In layman’s terms - the shield is silver or white, and the castle is black stonework with white joints. It must be shown with three towers, each surmounted by a red flag and must have two or more windows and an entrance coloured red, with a black portcullis shown lowered. It stands upon a rock or rock- like colours. (The castle has long been a symbol for Edinburgh, the Castle Rock having been fortified since Neolithic times.)
Above the shield a coronet - a circlet richly chased from which are issuant eight thistle heads (three and two halves visible) Or. This device is gold was adopted by the Lord Lyon as the standard sign for the new District Councils of Scotland.
The crest probably derives the office of Ardmiral of the Forth held by the Lord Provost - an anchor wreathed about with a cable all proper (that is, in natural colours) set on a wreath of the colours. This wreath or torse represents cloth coloured by the city’s livery, silver on one side and black on the other, and twisted so as to show three twists of each colour.
Above the anchor is the motto, ‘NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA’, associated with Edinburgh since 1647. The interpretation is, ‘Except the Lord in Vain’ and is a normal heraldic contraction of a verse from the 127th Psalm:-
Except the Lord build the house
They labour in vain that build it:
Except the Lord keep the city
The watchman waketh but in vain.’
Two figures or ‘supporters’ flank the shield. On the ‘dexter’ (ie. the viewer’s right) stands a doe.
Not, of course that I understand any of that;-)
Posted by Dug | January 30, 2004 9:07 AM
Posted on January 30, 2004 09:07
What's the blason of Edinburgh?
Posted by Lau Fany | January 30, 2004 5:07 AM
Posted on January 30, 2004 05:07