OT: General OT Thread #44 - The World is Still Turning

[57special]

So, I always thought that I came from mostly boring Northern English, and Scottish stock. Turns out that there is a pretty significant branch of the family that came from Switzerland, and can be traced back to 1200. Those Swiss are great record keepers.

I'm kind of pumped. Spetzle, yodeling, Lederhosen...let's go!

 

[Minnewildsota]

So, I always thought that I came from mostly boring Northern English, and Scottish stock. Turns out that there is a pretty significant branch of the family that came from Switzerland, and can be traced back to 1200. Those Swiss are great record keepers.

I'm kind of pumped. Spetzle, yodeling, Lederhosen...let's go!

It’s Spätzle.

You bring shame to your ancestors! Haha

 

[Wabit]

It’s Spätzle.

You bring shame to your ancestors! Haha

I'm just glad my ancestors don't know how to look up my browser history....

 

[Sweetnut]

I saw you guys got a new flag a while ago. Our provincial flag is from 1660 and looks like this:

This is the original from 1660, still preserved at a museum.

The lion was first used by the duke of Halland and Finland in 1353, Bengt Algotsson, and his signet looked like this

Replica:

I watched the movie Damsel a couple of days ago, and in the opening sequence the king was sporting this coat of arms. Looks a lot like it, right? I just thought it was funny.