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Excerpt from The Book of Toasts: Being, for the Most Part, Bubbles Gathered From the Wine of Others' Wit, With, Here and There, an Occasional Humbler Globule Believed to Be More or Less Original The arms, originally assumptive and allusive, of Gambrinus, Bacchus, Harpocrates, and Noah became, through succession and concession and by alliance and adoption, the hereditary quarterings of the ancient family of Wes Hal, Waes Hael, Wessel, Wassaile or Wassail. Quarterly, first, party per fess, vert and or; chief a stein half-opened or, base a hop vine proper; second, gules, on a bend or a thyrsus proper; chief a corkscrew or, base three corks or, erect, bend-wise, one and two; third, gules, on a chevron or three roses gules; chief a distillatory double-armed with two worms and a boltreceiver on fire, base a spirit-jug or; fourth, party per fess vert and or; chief an amphora or, base a cluster of grapes and vine leaves proper. Motto: In Vino Veritas. Crest, upon a cushion gules and or, a drinking-horn proper, embowed, legged or, crowned with red wine from which fall three gouttes de vin. Motto: Skoal. The legend of the crest and the crest-motto is as follows: When time was young, Sigurd, the Volsung, Prince of the Sunlight, sang to the harp in the Palace of Ginki, King of the Niblungs, and Grimhild, the Queen, brought to Sigurd a magic drinking-horn filled with the wine of forgetfulness. And he drank to her the toast of the Gods and the Northmen, - "Skoal, " - and forgetting Brynhild, whom he loved, he laid his heart at the feet of Gudrud, Princess of the Niblungs, and bound the drinking-horn upon his helmet as a crest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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