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'''Britannia''' is the [[National_Personification|national personification]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. | '''Britannia''' is the [[National_Personification|national personification]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. | ||
| − | She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and at her feet a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty | + | She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and at her feet a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pence piece. Older images of her depict a sword. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 16:19, August 16, 2007
Britannia is the national personification of the United Kingdom.
She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and at her feet a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pence piece. Older images of her depict a sword.
See also
- John Bull, a personification of England or less commonly of the United Kingdom