The Name · Ý nghĩa của tên
Linh Lan — Hoa của sự tinh khôi
Small flower,
loud kindness.
Linh Lan (Vietnamese) · 은방울꽃 (Korean) · Convallaria majalis (Latin) —
three names for the same quiet flower: the Lily of the Valley.
It grows in shade, not sun. Its bells are small enough to miss on a walk, and
fragrant enough to remember for a week. Since the Middle Ages it has been carried
at weddings and pressed into prayer books, always as a promise of something gentle
returning.
Our house is named after this flower — and for what it has stood for, quietly,
for eight hundred years.