Flanders' Motto

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

Your Excellency,

 

May a High Priestess ask what the motto of Flanders is?

[Astrid 0]

Your Excellency,

 

May a High Priestess ask what the motto of Flanders is?

 

That would, of course, be: "Vlaanderen de Leeuw!".

[Gert Geens 0]

Actually, no, it isn't. The problem is that I can't find for sure what really is our motto. There has been a contest to suggest a motto, out of which there came one entry that got some approval ("the first will be the last", referring to the fact that Flanders was the first Dutch speaking micronation), but I haven't found a decision yet.

[Gert Geens 0]

The first will be the last has indeed been adopted as our motto in October 2012.

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

Your Excellency,

 

A High Priestess wishes to convey her thanks for your response. Did you know that Stormark has thirteen mottos?

[Gert Geens 0]

I don't really get article 2: there are 26 jarldoms and only 12 motto's. How does that work?

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

Your Excellency,

A High Priestess wishes to convey that she understands where your confusion comes from. In the context of Article 2 of the National Mottos Act of Year 11 "Twenty Six Jarldoms" does not refer to the number of individual jarldoms but to the nation as a whole since Twenty-Six Jarldoms is one of the thirteen official names of Stormark.

 

One shall encounter the number 13 quite often in Stormark since it is a number associated with the Goddess Freyja and therefore considered an exuberantly lucky number.

[Unna 0]

Your Excellency,

 

A High Priestess wishes to convey that she understands where your confusion comes from. In the context of Article 2 of the National Mottos Act of Year 11 "Twenty Six Jarldoms" does not refer to the number of individual jarldoms but to the nation as a whole since Twenty-Six Jarldoms is one of the thirteen official names of Stormark.

 

One shall encounter the number 13 quite often in Stormark since it is a number associated with the Goddess Freyja and therefore considered an exuberantly lucky number.

 

For a certainty!