Silvestro Petrasancta's Blog: Rothesay in Shetland Episode One

Meanwhile, in another part of the wood, Rothesay is in Shetland. The main event will be a talk on Monday evening at the Shetland Museum and Archives as art of the Lyon Register's 350th Anniversary series. In the meantime, Rothesay was interviewed by BBC Radio Shetland and have w talk to a youth group and a church group.

Shetland is awash with heraldry: the Town Hall in Lerwick, built in 1883 has innety-one coats of arms are displayed somewhere in the Hall, thirty-eight of them in stained glass, and thirteen carved in stone on the outside all beautifully restored along with the creation of a neat little app which identifies each shield as you point to it.

Here is the glorious Rose Window,

The Masonic Window showing the Earl of Morton

Cameron of Garth

Bruce of Sumburgh

Leask of Sand

Edmondstone of Buness

Garriock (uncertain registration)

The great rose window displaying the arms of Lerwick surrounded by (clockwise from 12 o'clock) Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Oldenburg, Oslo, Orkney, Trondheim, Norway, Bergen, Caithness, Tonsberg, Schleswig, Wendland and Gotland