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Crowned oak and acorns

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A family crest. — Addendum: I HAVE to add this. I found this crest (taken from a mausoleum) in my archives. I liked the crown and I liked the oaks and acorns and so I picked it for the challenge. However, I have a photo of the whole mausoleum so I checked the inscription out of curiosity. Here it is:

So this is the final resting place of one Georg Wilding with the title of a prince. His grandfather married a Neapolitan princess and thus came by the title. Now it happens that I have an American friend with this surname. She doesn’t THINK she is related but the acorns and oak seem oddly familiar to something she has seen in her father’s genealogy research. She will let me know. Isn’t this exciting / weird / strange / interesting?

Even if nothing comes of it, it made me renew a friendship.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Crown.

Burned stone

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The Baltic Sea has the richest treasure of amber. In the towns on the coastline amber is omnipresent in museums, jewellery shops and just as a reference. Stralsund was part of the Hanseatic league in the middle ages and the typical ship of the seafaring traders, a cog, was included in the official seal. Jewellers in Stralsund combined these traditions to create this iconic brooch.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Amber,

Renowned heroes, worthy of praise

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If you know something of the Nibelungenlied you know that Hagen killed Siegfried at a brook while he was kneeling down to have a drink. There are at least eight places in the Odenwald which claim to be the place where it all happened. Quite interesting, isn’t it?

The photos were taken at the Lindelbrunnen in Hiltersklingen.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: QI.