Vert (heraldry) medieval figurative art. The Anglo-Norman "prose Brut" (c. 1200) has Brutus of Troy bear a green shield, "Brutus Vert-Escu, Brutus Viride Scutum". Green is occasionally found in historical coats of arms (as opposed to the fictional "green knights" of Arthurian romance) from as early as the 13th century, but it remained rare, and indeed actively avoided, well into the 15th century, but becomes more common in the classical heraldry of the 16th and 17th centuries. An early example of a green escutcheon was that of the coat of arms of Styria, based on the banner of Ottokar II of Bohemia
Blue Is the Colour Blue Is the Colour Blue Is the Colour is the fifth studio album from English band The Beautiful South, released in October 1996 through Go! Discs and in America through Ark 21 Records. Following the two singles "Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream", which never featured on any album until the release of the second greatest hits "Solid Bronze" in 2001, it was named after a pub in Sheffield. The album continued the melancholic tone of its predecessor "Miaow", and is generally considered to be the band's darkest effort, reflecting Heaton's life at the time. This comes