Talk:Danish heraldry

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I have rated this article as C-Class. It fails B-class criteria 1, 2 and partially 5. You can find details of these criteria here. In-line citations are limited; content could be expanded to include, for example, the coat of arms of Denmark and/or Royal Family. There could be more illustrations. Good luck! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:26, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Reassessing to Start class: this article falls substantially short of a B-class article and is in fact little more than a stub. I will give it some more attention when I have time, but for now it is more appropriate to rate as a Start class article than to rate B-class by default. Wilhelm_meis (talk) 11:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

masonic heraldry

 * There is also a tradition for masonic heraldry.

As Buffy Summers once said, could you vague that up a little bit? Does it mean that Freemasons are especially interested in heraldry, or that Freemasons have their own system (as the Society for Creative Anachronism has theirs), or that armory is traditionally represented in masonry, or something else? —Tamfang (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Every mason that reaches one of the upper three ranks in the Danish masonic system is entitled to choose a coat of arms, which will be painted on an actual shield and put on display in the Danish Grand Lodge at Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen. The actual room is known as "Armigersalen" [i.e. the Armigers' Hall], and the order owns a very large collection of such arms. The collection was succesfully hidden away during World War II, before the infamous Nazi "Schalburg Corps" occupied the Grand Lodge. Each arms carries a coloured border with the colour symbolising the mason's rank, e.g. a red border indicates that the armiger holds the highest masonic rank. A private website of a mason mentions the precise colours: the arms of masons of the 8th degree are bordered in black, for members of the 9th degree the border is white and for members of the 10th degree the border is red. Normally, basic heraldic principles - like the rule of tincture - are observed, but the arms may incorporate masonic symbols not normally seen in Danish heraldry, e.g. an unfinished stone cube. Individual lodges also carry their own coats of arms. I'm not aware if the lodges outside of Copenhagen have the same traditions as the Grand Lodge. Btw, Danish masonry differs from the English system, notably in the fact that Danish masons must be baptised Christians (though, not necessarily members of the Lutheran Church of Denmark). Source: The 2007 Danmarks Radio special, "Frimurernes hemmeligheder" (Secrets of the Freemasons). Valentinian T / C 20:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Any objection to changing the quoted sentence to something like this?: "High-ranking Freemasons continue to adopt coats of arms, which they display in their lodges." —Tamfang (talk) 23:01, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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Argent
Why is argent/hvid/sølv also placed among the colours in the table? --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 21:20, 4 September 2011 (UTC)