[Ansteorra] represent honor in banners

[Tim McDaniel]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Sandra Geil <alexsandraeryn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> though in heraldry the lion is for bravery...

Did you miss the couple of messages from yesterday, about how "X means
Y in heraldry" is in most cases false?
<http://lists.ansteorra.org/pipermail/ansteorra-ansteorra.org/2010-April/069614.html>
<http://lists.ansteorra.org/pipermail/ansteorra-ansteorra.org/2010-April/069616.html>
Note particularly Emma's note from Dennys's _The Heraldic Imagination_
about the "meaning" of "swan".  That is part of an answer to Willow's
comment.

The Aberdeen Bestiary <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/7r.hti>
calls the lion the king of the beasts, and ascribes to it various
virtues and properties (that have only a vague relationship to real
lions).  But I don't see anything specific about bravery, and in fact
it says "The lion fears the cock, especially the white one. King of
the beasts, it is tormented by the tiny sting of the scorpion and is
killed by the venom of the snake."

Danihel Lindum
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com