We'd like to use analytics cookies to understand which symbols people look up, so we know what to research next. They are not used for advertising and we set none of them unless you say yes. What we store.
Three armoured legs joined at the hip, bent at the knee.
Also known as: Three Legs of Man, Trie Cassyn, Manx three legs, Three bent legs
The Isle of Man's three legs are armoured and spurred, running clockwise, and the design is at least seven hundred years old on the island. Sicily uses a three-legged emblem too, and the two are unrelated in origin despite the resemblance.
Denotes the Isle of Man: three armoured legs conjoined at the thigh, each bent at the knee, arranged with rotational symmetry.
Contexts: Public information
Has been the island's emblem since at least the thirteenth century, appearing on the Manx Sword of State.
Contexts: Public information
Resembles the Sicilian trinacria, which also shows three legs, but the two emblems have separate origins and the Sicilian version has a face at its centre.
Contexts: Public information
Three legs in plate armour with golden spurs, joined at the upper thigh at the centre and radiating outward, each bent sharply at the knee, on a red ground.