What is the Celtic symbol for “friendship”?
Any Celtic knot is said to harbor the essence of friendship simply due to their implied symbolic meanings: Unity, union, partnering, joining, eternity, connectedness, unbreakable, strength, and a host of like attributes. According to George Bain, a 20th century Scottish Celtic art professor, Celtic knots that have a closed path, (no end or beginning), are considered to be a symbol of eternity, eternal connectedness, or symbolic of the infinite. Another option for a Celtic symbol of friendship would be the symbol of the Claddagh. Claddagh (pronounced klä dä) is an ancient village just outside Galway City in Ireland. The symbol gets its origin from Richard Joyce. Captured and taken from his homeland, Joyce was held as a slave in the West Indies. Eventually, he was sold to a Moorish goldsmith, where Joyce learned the art of jewelry making. Joyce eventually gained his freedom, and upon doing so, immediately went back to his homeland and settled down in the village of Claddagh. Here he cont
