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A wild boar, as shown on the canting coat of arms of Eberbach, Germany (1976 design) In various armorials, the Serbian coat of arms has featured the pierced head of a wild boar, also known as the coat of arms of Triballia. The war flag of the Serbian revolutionary forces during the First Serbian Uprising featured it together with the Serbian cross.
A number of Germanic names feature as an element in names related to jǫfurr (derived from Proto-Germanic: *eburaR, wild boar) such as Jǫfurfǫst and Jǫfurbjǫrn, attested in Swedish runic inscriptions, and Eofor, a Geat in Beowulf. [15] In later sources, jǫfurr the meaning of 'boar' and has been predominantly replaced by 'ruler' or 'prince ...
The motif is of a severed wild boar's head with an arrow in its mouth or through its head. The Triballi were an ancient tribe whose name was used as an exonym for the Serbs by archaizing Byzantine authors in the Middle Ages. [1] The Triballian coat of arms depicts the head of a boar pierced by an arrow. [2]
White Boar badge with Richard III's motto Loyaulte me lie ("Loyalty binds me"). Richard and his son standing on boars in a contemporary heraldic roll by John Rous. The White Boar was the personal device or badge of the English King Richard III of England (1452–1485, reigned from 1483), and is an early instance of the use of boars in heraldry.
The boar's head terminal is one of several representations of the animal on contemporaneous helmets. Boars surmount the Benty Grange and Wollaston helmets, and form the ends of the eyebrows of the Sutton Hoo and perhaps York helmets. These evidence a thousand-years-long tradition in Germanic paganism associating boars with both deities and ...
A wild boar refers to the family of President P. E. Svinhufvud from Luumäki (Svinhufvud literally means the "swine head"). [120] [121] The wild boar features prominently in the cultures of Indo-European people, many of which saw the animal as embodying warrior virtues. [122]
Serbian cross and severed wild boar's head with an arrow through it 1835–1882 Principality of Serbia: White cross on a red field with four points surrounded with a wreath of olive, and oak leaves and a red princely cloak with an ermine lining behind, bordered with gold tassels, over which princely crown is placed 1882–1918 Kingdom of Serbia
Two other boar-crested helmets are known—from Benty Grange and from Wollaston [7] [24] —and the Guilden Morden boar is a close parallel of the boar fixed to the former. [4] The Benty Grange boar has a similar shape; it has a long and distinctive elongated snout projecting forward, a similar stance, and front and hind legs each joined as one.