SR - Let's get started!
Conor mac Cinneide
carcassonnais at geocities.com
Fri Apr 10 18:34:37 PDT 1998
I will only comment on the French ones.
On Friday, April 10, 1998 12:55 AM, Tim McDaniel [SMTP:tmcd at crl.com]
wrote:
> I looked up some (possibly- or near-) period mottos from Bedingfeld
> and
> Gwynn-Jones, _Heraldry_. If anyone can translate any of them, I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> p. 28: Il faut Faire, < 1433/44, "It is necessary to do", Sir John
> Fastolf
A more correct translation would be "One must do." Obviously a spur
to action.
Okay, how about, "Il faut faire comme les heros." "One must do like
the heroes"
> p. 59: Hic [ich] dien, 14th C., "I serve", Philippa of Hainault
This is the motto of Edward, the Black Prince
Okay, so it isn't French, but I know a lot about the Black Prince.
> p. 40: De mieulx en mieulx, 1573, ?, William Paston of Paston
>From better to better, more like the English "things are getting
better and better."
That's the only three I can help with for right now.
Conor
lucetis sicut luminaria in mundo
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