Bowen Knot

The bowen knotSevärd.svg is not really a knot, but more an endless rope. Named after James Bowen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen_knot

It has a lot of features of the VMS script: it has curly corners such as many of the VMS letters (P, F) for example:

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The Bowen knot must have existed before William Shakespeare (1564 1616) manufactured his variant on this ‘knot’:

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When used as a symbol (⌘), an ordinary Bowen knot is known as Saint John’s Arms.

Apple
The Command key (⌘), also historically known as the Apple key,  pretzel key, or meta key, is used on Apple Keyboards as symbol of ‘command’. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key

This symbol is called valknute in Scandinavia.
In swedisch: Sevärd, translation: worth seeing (..?)

From this the Three interlocking traingles symbol is derived probably.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valknut

Nordic
links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover

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