Stone of Scone 斯昆石

Stone of Scone
繁:斯昆石
简:斯昆石

一塊叫做「加冕石」、「命運之石」或者直譯為斯昆石的石頭,象徵了英格蘭和蘇格蘭糾纏不清的關係。
這塊石頭的英文有「The Coronation stone」、「Stone of Destiny」以及「Stone of scone」。
這塊石頭,根據蘇格蘭的傳說,是蘇格蘭第一個聯合部落宗族成為王國的國王「加冕」時(不過他當時沒有皇冠,所以這裏用括號),就是坐在這塊石頭上。

蘇格蘭獨立公投:一塊石頭的恩怨情仇(2014年8月27日)。BBC中文网,取自 http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/uk/2014/08/140812_scotland_special_stone

Five months later the students placed the stone, also known as the Stone of Scone, in Arbroath Abbey.
The authorities had it taken back to Westminster Abbey, but in 1996 it was returned to Scotland as a symbolic gesture and is now kept at Edinburgh Castle.

Woman who took Stone of Destiny back to Scotland dies. (2013, July 8). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-23225247