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21 June 2006 20:32
 

My school’s mascot is the Hghlanders and se we have taken it upon ourselves to give all our buildings Scottish names that seem rather ridiculous in Southern California.  That aside, I snapped this picture of the logo of one of the campus apartmen complexes called "Bannockburn".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Horatio86/04-06-06_1528.jpg

 

It isn’t a horrible design but, unfortunatly, in nearly all the other uses of the logo they stylize the mantling to the detriment of the shield… kudos for the attempt I guess.

 

Does this design have any connection to the real Bannockburn?

 
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21 June 2006 20:43
 

It doesn’t look like a shield and mantling to me…I think it’s supposed to be a Scottish thistle.

 
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21 June 2006 20:51
 

Joseph McMillan wrote:

It doesn’t look like a shield and mantling to me…I think it’s supposed to be a Scottish thistle.


Yes, it’s a thistle—but this rendition is easily confused for a shield.

 
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21 June 2006 23:51
 

I always liked this wee story of the thistle:

The prickly purple thistle was adopted as the Emblem of Scotland during the rein of Alexander III (1249 -1286). Legend has it that an Army of King Haakon of Norway, intent on conquering the Scots landed at the Coast of Largs at night to surprise the sleeping Scottish Clansmen.

 

In order to move more stealthily under the cover of darkness the Norsemen removed their footwear. As they drew near to the Scots it wasn’t the only thing hiding under the cover of darkness. For one of Haakon’s men unfortunately stood on one of these spiny little defenders and shrieked out in pain, alerting the Clansmen of the advancing Norsemen. Needless to say the Scots who won the day.

 
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22 June 2006 00:24
 

Joseph McMillan wrote:

It doesn’t look like a shield and mantling to me…I think it’s supposed to be a Scottish thistle.


Hmm… I guess that makes more sense… I was thinking something like ___fretty ___ and on a chief ___ paly ___  Seeing as how the tincutures aren’t visible on the sign….

 
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22 June 2006 00:25
 

J Duncan of Sketraw wrote:

...For one of Haakon’s men unfortunately stood on one of these spiny little defenders and shrieked out in pain.

Ergo Scotland’s Latin motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (No one touches me with impunity).

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22 June 2006 00:35
 

That is a great story John. Is it legend, or fact, or a little of both? Either way it is a great story.

 
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22 June 2006 00:44
 

Donnchadh wrote:

That is a great story John. Is it legend, or fact, or a little of both? Either way it is a great story.


It is a little of both I think but it is supposed to be the excepted story.

 
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22 June 2006 00:49
 

I can see it happening. We get thistles here in Colorado, though I don’t know if they are the same as the ones that grow in Scotland. However, they grow wild in our high plains fields and I’ve been out in the fields doing photography and even hunting and many a time snagged myself on them - man they hurt. So, I can see how stepping on one barefooted would make one yelp out loud. Ouch.

 
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22 June 2006 18:37
 

I guess it could be possible…

http://www.heraldrysociety.us/pictures/members_posts/Thistle.png

 

Does anyone know of any such adaptation in use?

 
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22 June 2006 20:51
 

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Does anyone know of any such adaptation in use?


I don’t chief.

 
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23 June 2006 00:46
 

ESmith wrote:

Hmm… I guess that makes more sense… I was thinking something like ___fretty ___ and on a chief ___ paly ___  Seeing as how the tincutures aren’t visible on the sign….


If it were a shield and you were indeed blazoning it, rather than ‘fretty’ I would term it either ‘Lattice’, ‘Trellise’ or ‘Treille’.  Fretty shows a distinct interlacing design, whereas this one looks more like (if it were a shield) to be straight overlays of bendy and bendy-sinister.

 

I don’t think that the preposition ‘on’ should be there as there is nothing ‘on’ the Chief and I wouldn’t use ‘paly’ as there aren’t an even number of partitions - I offer that it should possibly be ‘... a Chief X ‘number’ pallets Y’.

 
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23 June 2006 02:59
 

GJKS wrote:

If it were a shield and you were indeed blazoning it, rather than ‘fretty’ I would term it either ‘Lattice’, ‘Trellise’ or ‘Treille’.  Fretty shows a distinct interlacing design, whereas this one looks more like (if it were a shield) to be straight overlays of bendy and bendy-sinister.


The sign is carved into several planks of wood so it is fairly difficult to discern that degree of detail…  You’re right though, it seems less like a shield now that folks have pointed out the thistle image…