Fylfot or fylfot cross is a synonym for swastika, sometimes used in Britain. However – at least in modern heraldry texts, such as Friar and Woodcock & Robinson (see below) – the fylfot differs somewhat from the archetypal form of the swastika: always upright and typically with truncated limbs, as shown in the figure at right. Etymology The most commonly cited etymology for this is that it comes from the notion common among nineteenth-century antiquarians, but based on only a single… (More on Fylfot)