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Do not accept another’s interpretation of what your honour might mean to you and the knighthood. This is not to say that our young squires ought to go out looking for situations which require such a final statement of their life upon Algoron – rather I would entreat to them to read the treatises on ‘Honour’ within the library under virtue in order that they not throw their life away needlessly. It was the young yinn Tegyr Vey who pointed out that the placard which had hung for many years over our halls had misspelled "dedecoro" to "dedocoro". This presses home the points that all knights ought to rather face death as a consequence of any action rather than the shame or dishonour of another option of their action. "Mors" for death, "ante" for before and "dedecoro" for dishonour translate into our common tongue rather well. The second sentence is altogether a more concise set of runes which leave little space for misinterpretation. Rather the perfect noble and honourable action that a model Knight might take on behalf of his/her divine deity. I believe the focus of the popular translation of "Noble Deeds" is not so heavily weighted on hereditary nobility. This statement attributes the runes the most effectively in my opinion. Deeds that would make such a mark that those who beheld them would aspire to be a perfect knight. The most popular over the years has been "Noble Deeds", but I do profess to be rather partial to "Deeds of Renown", or "Honourable and Chivalrous Deeds" marking the fact that it separates the deeds of all men (and women) rather than an aristocracy and focuses on the inspiration which the phrase inspires in terms of courage and valour. Together they can mean many things, "Deeds of Renown", "Honourable and Chivalrous Deeds", "Superior Works", "Noble Deeds", "Achievements of those of noble birth" or "Acts of the Noblemen". The "factum" rune translates to mean deed, accomplishment, work, act or achievement. It may be that the original meaning of the word was supposed to mean ‘of noble birth’, but similarly in the realms of today, the second meaning is altogether more fitting, and perhaps even written in this way in the hope that any man (or woman) whose heart were true could walk the path and the Oath be accommodated. (b)known, famous, celebrated, noted, renown, superior, of a noble or splendid motive The first word "nobilis" is the most contentious of all of the Serpantine runes for translation. Let us examine the meaning of each word in turn. The first sentence has had many meanings attributed to it, whereas the translation of the second is commonly understood, if not frequently misspelled. The Oath which was handed down to us from our forebears in Serpantol has been the subject of much speculation from the translation from the Serpantine runes from whence they have come. The Oath of Knighthood is what we make each knight swear upon gaining their spurs, and is intended to be a quick reference to consider before attempting any action.