It's not a large piece, 22" x 15", but it is deeply carved and professionally done. When Mom and Dad sold the house we all grew up in, the carving came down and Malcolm claimed it. He's since decided that it should go to one of my sons because Malcolm has no sons and he thinks it should stay with the name.
You can click on the link for a larger (4.1 MB) version.
I thought I'd take a picture of it in case any of my siblings or cousins wondered what had happened to the piece.
It's at my house, temporarily.
UPDATE** And anonymous commenter tells me I misspelled the post title. He's right. Good catch. And thanks for the addtional information.
It's HeraldRy, and the crest is person specific. No such thing as a family crest.
ReplyDeleteI get one of those offers every once in a while. My name is Norwegian and is roughly equivalent to "Newland" in English. In the long-ago the eldest son inherited everything. Younger sons could stay and work for him or go and make their own fortune. Thus the name which translates to "New Farm" or "New Place" and is one of the common names in Norway.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting aside: This foolishness the gov't and congress is playing with is stirring my Viking blood. I've been reading the Sagas and have been increasing my respect for the stone cojones my Viking ancestors showed. They were some hard-assed SOB's and put up with little from those ostensibly above them, preferring death to subjugation. Perhaps it's time to show that some of us have ancestors to honor. And that we come from good, solid, hard headed, bloody minded stock.
Gerry N.
Nice piece of family history :-)
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