. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. produced above, it shouldbe noticed that the Temple—which represents thearchitectural canopy over the saint in the seals—is drawnin the Byzantine style in allusion to the locality of thediocese which St. Nicholas rule<l. The saint himself isdrawn in pontificals, , vested in the conventionalrobes of a Bishop, in alb, chasuble, and mitre. Lord Bute,in discussing the arms of the city of Aberdeen, urges thatthe saint should be vested in the distinctive robes of anEastern Bishop. In heraldry, however, there is a traditionalmanner of representing a Bisho
. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. produced above, it shouldbe noticed that the Temple—which represents thearchitectural canopy over the saint in the seals—is drawnin the Byzantine style in allusion to the locality of thediocese which St. Nicholas rule<l. The saint himself isdrawn in pontificals, , vested in the conventionalrobes of a Bishop, in alb, chasuble, and mitre. Lord Bute,in discussing the arms of the city of Aberdeen, urges thatthe saint should be vested in the distinctive robes of anEastern Bishop. In heraldry, however, there is a traditionalmanner of representing a Bishop, to which it is best toadhere, and all the more so as the robes of a fourth centuryP^astern Bishop must be more or less a matter of conjecture. The aims of the dkxese may be blazoned thus : —^A cure, in the poick of a Temple argent, Si. Nicholas standingmitred and vested proper, holding in his sinister hand a crosier or,with his dexter hand lifted up to heaven, praying over three child-ren proper in a salting-tub of the CHAPTER IX. Orkney. The arms of the diocese of Orkney bear the figure ofSt. Magnus, the patron of the see and of the cathedral atKirkwall. Orkney and Zetland were early colonized by Scandi-navians, whose influence gradually spread throughout theHebrides also. These colonists were in the habit ofmaking raids on the coasts of Britain, and they even sentexpeditions against Norway itself. In the tenth centuryHarold, King of Norway, sailed to the Western seas andannexed the Orkneys and the Hebrides, and over theseislands he placed Norwegian Earls as governors. Theyand their descendants ruled for some centuries, nominallyas vassals of the kings of Norway, but generally, to allintents and purposes, independent sovereigns. Magnuswas the son of Erlend, one of the Scandinavian Earls ofOrkney. He was one of a family, the members of whichwere continually quarrelling among themselves, and stirringup strife in the islands ; and, to restore order, Magnus Bare-f
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