Scotland & The thistle

The thistle is a spiny plant that has a pink flower, this plant is very common in the world, even existing in our country Chile. This flower as been chosen how the national flower of Scotland, national symbol and also this plant takes part of the old order of chivalry Scotland, call “ the order of thistle”. But, why is this simple plant something so important for the Scottish?

The history or legend, because we don´t know if is 100% true or not, it says that near of the 1263 in a battle that was for recovery of territories by Scots, territories that in this moment was property of the Norwegian. The Norwegian army decided attack at the Scottish army in the night and in a cowardly way by easy victory, so for not to make noise, they decided take off your shoes and walk barefoot in the direction of the opponent, but they couldn’t imagine what would happen neither the flora that there had, a men of the Norwegian army stomped one of the million the thistle that there had, this thistle provoke that the men felt a lot of pain that made her scream very strong, this cry alert at the Scottish army that the Norwegian pretended attack silently, so they could react in time and win the battle.

Now, imagine us if in Chile we were to be guided by this tipe of events for choose national symbols, we would be full, for example: if we using the “Fenix Capsule” that rescued the 33 miners, if using smalls “Esmeraldas” because it was part of win in the “Battle of Iquique” or maybe pictures of “Farkas” because he “help” in all catastrophe of Chile... Just imagine!