Clan Motto Competition

Here is new anthem for the Heraldry Society of Scotland: the words are all taken from mottoes.

Competition 1 is to identify the owner of each motto and to translate it into your own language.

Nemo me impune lacessit,

Nil sine labore,

Sic transit gloria mundi,

Via veritas vita

Nobilis est ira leonis

Ora et labora

Corda serrata pando

feros ferio

Tak tent o'armes, Tak tent o'armes,

Tak tent o'armes,

In medio virtus stat.

Sola virtus nobilitat

Fortiter et recte

Virtutem coronat honos

Praesto ut praestem

Sub sole sub umbra virens

Nunquam non paratus

Audentes fortuna juvat 

Fortitudine

chorus: Tak tent o'armes, Tak tent o'armes,

Tak tent o'armes,

In medio virtus stat.

Welcome to the Junior Section of the Heraldry Society of Scotland

The HSS has a small but enthusiastic number of Junior Members in Scotland, England, Italy and Germany and would welcome many more.

Once a month, sometimes oftener, a competition will appear on this page with an interesting book as a prize: have a go at them, they are supposed to be fun and I hope they are!

In the meantime, Junior Members are encouraged to send in photographs of heraldry which they have taken themselves. To start us off, here is a photograph taken by our young member, Julian Tristan of Bavaria, of the Spanish galleon. Neptune in harbour at Genova. The ship was rebuilt for Roman Polanski's film Pirates.