The Legend of the Two Crows
As the tale is told, King Robert the Bruce — travelling in disguise — was welcomed into a widow's home and given a good meal. When her three sons returned, she bade them pay their respects, and they pledged themselves to the King. To test their skill with the bow, he set them a challenge: the eldest, Murdoch, loosed a single arrow at two ravens perched upon a crag — and transfixed both birds with the one shaft. From that feat the family took its arms — two ravens pierced by a single arrow, beneath the motto Omine secundo, “under a favourable omen.” And from those two ravens comes our name: Two Dead Crows.
