Comments on: The Narbon Coat of Arms https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: TheOccupant https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-16644 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:04:32 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-16644 Sadly, most of the image links are broken.

]]> By: Valerie Kaplan (shinyhappygoth) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1238 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:45 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1238 Sure, Wolf-man, I’d believe it.  After all, that dagger is pointing sinister.

 Mind you, I decided to follow the image rather than the description when I made the shield for my armoured gerbil (as visible in the final Summer Gerbil Photo Contest), because it came down to the symbolism suggesting gerbils menacing people vs. gerbils being menaced.  Usually, but not always, it’s the former, so I went with that.

]]> By: James Wolf (wolfmanjames) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1237 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:44 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1237 Would you belive the engraver is dyslexic?  Or a drunk monk somewhere?  OK.  It was me.  

So, Sarge, some time you do have to bring up the dedications!

]]> By: Andrew Barton (andrewandkatebarton) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1236 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:43 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1236 It’s dog-latin for ‘Be afraid, be very afraid’ – Andrew

]]> By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1235 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:42 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1235 “Fiat timorum, fiat timorum maximus”

Translation, please? (For the benefit of those of us who never learned Latin.)

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1234 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:41 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1234 But the de Narbonne family must also have a motto to go with the coat of arms!  Possibly “Fiat timorum, fiat timorum maximus”?

 

]]> By: Leon Arnott (l) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1233 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:40 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1233 “de Nabronne, or de Narbonne?? Future historians will want to be clear onthis point. The French city is Narbonne (and a lovely Riviera town itis), which suggests that the engraveur has made a grave erreur.

The 7th Baronne (baroness), or Baron? Was it his blasphemous alchemicalexperiments, or hers, that staggered the deceased–and, perhaps, theengraver?“
—Ed Wells, 25 March 2001.

]]> By: James Rice (jhrice) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-narbon-coat-of-arms/#comment-1232 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:48:39 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3197#comment-1232 It might also be worth mentioning that the real Speedy is sitting on the world’s fastest Formula 1 race car, whereas the impostor Speedy is probably sitting on bird droppings.

-jr

 

 

 

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