heraldry, heraldic, term, fish, known, english, pike, often, used, canting, coats, that, using, coats, arms, make, last, name, bearer, titles, nickname, name, estate, word, derived, from, norse, gaddr, spike, norse, word, origin, terms, pike, modern, north, ge. A ged is a heraldic term for the fish known in English as a pike 1 2 It is often used in canting coats that is using coats of arms to make a pun on the last name of the bearer one of his titles a nickname or the name of his estate The word ged is derived from the Old Norse gaddr spike The Norse word is the origin of the terms for pike in the modern North Germanic languages Swedish gadda Danish gedde Norwegian gjedde and the Faroese and Icelandic gedda citation needed Crest badge of Clan Ged The ged s head used in the badge is a pun on the clan name and is an example of canting arms References Edit Fox Davies Arthur Charles 1909 A Complete Guide to Heraldry London T C amp E C Jack p 255 LCCN 09023803 Woodward John 1892 A treatise on heraldry British and foreign Edinburgh W amp A K Johnston p 694 LCCN 02020303 Archived from the original on 2007 11 02 Retrieved 2014 01 07 nbsp This heraldry related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ged heraldry amp oldid 1140929892, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
