Huroldry

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  • Heraldry: the science and art of describing coats-of-arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings. Its origins lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted on their shields. In Vico's philosophy of history, heraldry and heroic blazonings constituted the characteristic language of the second Viconian age, the Age of Heroes
  • Hure: (German) whore
  • hero
  • Hero of Athens
  • hurroo: (Anglo-Irish) a lamenting cry, as in the anti-war song Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye → possibly related to hullabaloo
  • Thuro: Danish island (Thor's island or his daughter Thora's) was raided by Hroar who raped Thora; she took revenge by tricking him into raping his own daughter; the incestuous son was Hrólfr Kraki (Roluo); he was a great king, but was eventually murdered by the Geats tribe (W.B. Yeats?). These characters also appear in the Beowolf tale.