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ENGLISH FOLK SYMBOL AND SWASTIKA VARIATION
Gammadion; Flyfoot; Cross fylfot; Fylfot Cross; Fylfot cross
fylfot
['f?lf?t]
¦ noun a swastika.
Origin
C15: perh. from fill-foot 'pattern filling the foot of a painted window'.
Gammadion
·noun A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, ·etc. ·see Fylfot.
Swastika
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·add. ·noun ·Alt. of Swastica.
Wikipedia
Fylfot
The fylfot or fylfot cross ( FILL-fot) and its mirror image, the gammadion are a type of swastika associated with medieval Anglo-Saxon culture. It is a cross with perpendicular extensions, usually at 90° or close angles, radiating in the same direction. However – at least in modern heraldry texts, such as Friar and Woodcock & Robinson (see § Bibliography) – the fylfot differs somewhat from the archetypal form of the swastika: always upright and typically with truncated limbs, as shown in the figure at right.
