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Registered:
The
International Register
of Arms, 6th October
2022. Registration No.
0657 (Vol.4).
Arms:
Per chevron Or and
Purpure, in base a
dragon’s head erased
Argent langued Gules
holding in its mouth a
broken sword Or, in
chief the Ægishjálmur
Sable between two male
puffins respectant wings
addorsed and elevated
Proper.
Crest:
A dragon passant
Purpure, tongue and
snout Gules, holding in
the dexter foreclaws a
broken sword Argent.
Motto:
ᚼᚬᛁᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᚼᚢᚴᚱᚬᚴᚴᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᚬᛚᛋᛁ.
Assumed:
Vestmannaeyjar,
Iceland, 5th October
2022.
Designed
by The Armorial Register
Ltd.
Grant: The
Office of the
Chief Herald
of Arms of
Malta 28th May
2024 bearing
Archive Number
G0098/2024.
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This
coat of arms has been
recorded in Nova Heroldia,
Poland, February, 2023;
The Registro Internacional
de Armas Gentilicas,
Spain, January 16, 2024,
Registration Number 1008;
The American College of
Heraldry, 16th of October
2022, Registration Number
4555, and on the Heraldry
of the World personal
website Registration No.
005/2025.
The armorial achievement
is full of symbolism: The
division of the field is
supposed to represent the
mountains of Iceland, the
home country of the
armiger where the Alaskan
lupine has grown in great
numbers and turned the
hills purple. The puffin
is a famously Icelandic
bird and on the island
where the armiger resides
is the biggest breeding
colony of Atlantic puffins
on Earth and the armiger
helps baby pufflings that
get lost in the town to
find their way to the sea
every year, the armigers
ancestors through his
maternal grandmothers
family lived on and owned
an island in the fjord of
Breiðafjörður called
“Fremri-Langey” there
puffins arrived every year
to breed and feed in the
summer and the Armigers
family hunted them for
food, but also enjoyed
watching them, the puffin
also symbolises the
armigers Faroese roots.
The armiger has always
been deeply fascinated by
dragons since he was a
child but the dragon is
also a symbol of East
Iceland where many of the
armiger’s ancestors are
from, the dragon is said
to be the protector of
east Iceland in the
Heimskringla, a book
written by Snorri
Sturlusson (an ancestor of
the armiger) the part in
the story about the dragon
goes like this:
King Harald bade a
well-known man to go to
Iceland, gather intel and
tell him anything he
gathers. He went in the
form of a whale. When he
came to the country, he
saw that all the mountains
and hills were full of
land spirits, some great,
and some small. But when
he came to Vopnafjörður
(part of the east fjords),
he went into the fjord,
intending to go on land.
Then a great dragon went
down the valley, and many
snakes, bugs, and lizards
followed him, and spewed
poison at him. But he swam
away in fear.
The broken swords and
other warrior related
symbols represent the
armiger’s name, Breki
meaning Breaker and
Einarsson the son of the
lone warrior. The
Ægishjálmur, The Helm of
Awe, is an Icelandic
magical stave which is
known to help warriors win
battles and saves them
from their enemies.
The motto,
ᚼᚬᛁᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᚼᚢᚴᚱᚬᚴᚴᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᚬᛚᛋᛁ, is
written in Runes; in
Icelandic it is Heiður,
Hugrekki, Frelsi which, in
English, is Honour,
Courage, Freedom.
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This
is the drawing of
the armigers owned
earmark that is
specifically
blazoned “Tvístýft
aftan hægra og
Heilhamrað
vinstra” in
Icelandic or
“Tvístýft behind
right ear and
heilhamrað on the
left” in English.
This earmark was
inherited by the
armiger's maternal
grandfather and
has been in the
family for
generations. The
Heilhamrað pattern
on the left ear is
the current family
mark and has been
used since about
the 1890s but the
Tvístýft behind on
the right is the
old family mark
that was used from
at least 1811 to
around 1890s until
this mark was used
in first part of
the 20th century.
The armiger is
very proud of his
mark and is very
fond of this
tradition. He has
published the
tradition on a
site for the UNESCO
project.
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The
Bookplate of Breki
Einarsson.
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The
standard of Breki
Einarsson contains the
armigers crest and
badges;
the most used badge is
his earmark.
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