5.8.04
"honi soit qui mal y pense"
i have found an explanation to this enigmatic phrase in the story of V, by catherine blackledge.
"The answer lies in the mysterious Order of the Garter - England's highest order or society of knights - which was founded by Edward III in the fourteenth century. These knights, known as the Knights of the Garter, have a famous motto: 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' - 'Shame on you if you see evil in this'. And the 'this' in question? It appears that it is none other than the vagina. Indeed, a text by the Italian medieval scholar Mondonus Belvaleti, states explicitly in an essay on the chivalrous Order of the Garter that it 'took its beginning from the female sex'." [p.53]
"The answer lies in the mysterious Order of the Garter - England's highest order or society of knights - which was founded by Edward III in the fourteenth century. These knights, known as the Knights of the Garter, have a famous motto: 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' - 'Shame on you if you see evil in this'. And the 'this' in question? It appears that it is none other than the vagina. Indeed, a text by the Italian medieval scholar Mondonus Belvaleti, states explicitly in an essay on the chivalrous Order of the Garter that it 'took its beginning from the female sex'." [p.53]