National Anthems and flags

[Davidu]

This is the coat-of-arms of Romania.

Please wait while I write the anthem.

P.S. a nice page upon the Romanian flag:

http://flagspot.net/flags/ro.html

[Davidu]

Desteapta-te,rom

[Davidu]

Romanian anthem (trans) - Awaken Thee, Romanian!

Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber

The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies

And now or never to a bright horizon clamber

That shall to shame put all your nocuous enemies.

It's now or never to the world we readily proclaim

In our veins throbs and ancestry of Roman

And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name

Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trajan.

Do look imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus

At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny

With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous

It's either free or dead, that's what they all decree.

Priests, rise the cross, this Christian army's liberating

The word is freedom, no less sacred is the end

We'd rather die in battle, in elevated glory

Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land

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This is a nice translation that I could find on the BBC website.

[Egeides]

This is the anthem and flag for yourself? You didn't mentioned to what it was knit.

[Khan]

First of all WOW that is so cool.

Here is the crest of the Brodie family, and that would be me. ;D

There is also kinda a Brodie castle in Scotland, near Inverness. As far as I've been able to peice ogether, our family also fought at the battle of Bannockburn.

[Davidu]

No, this is romania's flag/coat-of-arms and anthem... sorry for not mentioning that.

Please post your own country's flag and so on...

[Davidu]

Khan, you're a Scott?? If so, why don't you have the Scottish flag as Dust has?

[Khan]

Well firstly I have the Vietnamese flag, because I like the way it looks. Secondly I live England now and not Scotland. But most of my family (paternal) still live there.

[Davidu]

Aha... ok. And how do you feel? Mor of a Scott or more of an Engishman?

:)

[Khan]

Well after reading about the coolness of the family history, Call me MThe Thane of Khan.;D

[Davidu]

Oh yes, Great Clan Leader, Khan McKhan of the Brodie Clan. ;D

Well, Khan , you DO know that that MC means "son of", so only you're kids will bear that name. Cool, isn't it. It's like Erikson for example.

[Khan]

That's why now i'm the thane of. It is a provincial title, kinda like a baronial title, I think.

[Davidu]

Yeah... but as I remember that's a Saxon title... not a genuine Scott title. But that's nice to see nevertheless. ;)

[Khan]

Yes it is an Anglo Saxon Title although many believed it to be a Pictis Title.

[Davidu]

So, it's even older that the saxons (the title). then i like it even more. The older it gets, the more I like it.

[TMA_1]

that bull's head is the bull in which mithras killed, that is really cool. You can see it by the other symbols in the quarter portion, that adds to more of my info.

[Khan]

Mithras? ???

[Vanguard3000]

Ooh! I love heraldry!

Gules, a saltire argent is the blazon for my coat of arms.

Anyway, I'll give some info on my home:

The Canadian flag.

The Canadian coat of arms (Amari Usque Admare = "From sea to [the other] sea").

The O Canada (the regular bit, anyway. There's more, but no one ever uses it).

O Canada!

Our home and native land!

True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

(and French lyrics. Sometimes the two will be meshed)

O Canada, terre de nos aieux,

Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux.

Car ton bras sait porter l'

[Frodo]

The Star Spangled Banner, the U.S. Anthem...

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[Caid Ivik]

Emblem of the Slovak Republic (double-cross, symbol of our missionaire St.Metod, on three hills symbolizing mountains, between which our land lays, Tatra, Matra and Fatra):

http://www.prezident.sk/images/znak.gif

Slovak anthem: 853 KB

http://www.slovakia.org/anthem.wav

text:

http://www.countryreports.org/anthems/slovakiatextn.htm

[Warlord Ripskar]

My family coat of arms is;

"Argent, a saltire azure between four roses gules."

Translation;

White, a blue cross (diagonal) with a red rose in each white segment.

Though generally I use a Jolly Roger.

[Anathema]

Coat of arms of Wilhelm of Oranje...

The Dutch anthem...in Dutch that is ;)

This is only verse 1 and six, but you won't understand anything of it anyway :P

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe

ben ik van Duitsen bloed

den vaderland getrouwe

blijf ik tot in den dood.

Een Prinse van Oranje

ben ik, vrij onverveerd,

den Koning van Hispanje

heb ik altijd ge

[Davidu]

Hey, this thread looks like a succes. Post some more. ;D

I've just seens Madonna's latest video clip - American Life - in which on the background appear hondreds of flags - one by one. I saw the Romanian flag three times!! I can't believe this!

[Edric O]

So what? Really, Davidu, I don't see what the big deal is. Countries are irrelevant artificial constructs.

[Davidu]

'Cmon! Can't you let me feel good for a moment?