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The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall. Indeed, wolves occur in all the escutcheons of the Baroja, Alzate and Zornoza families, in so far as I have been able to discover, and I take them to be more or less authentic. We have wolves passant, wolves rampant, and wolves mordant.
In the early part of the nineteenth century, my great-grandfather, Sebastian Ignacio de Alzate, was among those who assembled at Zubieta in 1813 to take part in the rebuilding of San Sebastian, and this great- grandfather was uncle to Don Eugenio de Aviraneta, a good relative of mine, protagonist of my latest books. St.
I have unearthed three family myths: the Goni myth, the Zornoza myth, and the Alzate myth.
The Goni escutcheon also displays hearts. If I become rich, which I do not anticipate, I shall have wolves and hearts blazoned on the doors of my dazzling automobile, which will not prevent me from enjoying myself hugely inside of it. Turning to the Alzate myth, it too runs back to antiquity and the primitive struggles of rival families of Navarre and Labourt.
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