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Call sign Country Comments OMN Servicios Aereos Ominia: SERVIOMNIA Mexico 2014 [1] SEN Servicios de Aviacion Sierra: SERVISIERRA Mexico 2014 [1] SGC SGC Aviation: SAINT GEORGE Austria 2014 [1] SCJ Siamjet Aviation: SIAMJET Thailand 2014 [1] SIX Sixt Rent A Car: DRIVE ORANGE United States 2014 [1] SOG Solenta Aviation Ghana: Ghana 2014 [1] QSR ...
Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...
Norse Air Charter: NORSE AIR South Africa N0 NBT Norse Atlantic Airways: LONGSHIP Norway Z0 UBT Norse Atlantic UK: LONGBOAT United Kingdom NIR Norsk Flytjeneste: NORSEMAN Norway NOR Norsk Helikopter: NORSKE Norway DOC Norsk Luftambulanse: HELIDOC Norway RTV Nortavia: TIC-TAC Portugal NAI North Adria Aviation: NORTH-ADRIA Croatia NA NAO North ...
The same design, but with a red Nordic cross on a yellow background, was used as union flag during the Kalmar union (1397 to 1523), and when that union fell apart in 1523 the same design, but with a yellow cross on a blue background (derived from the Swedish coat of arms adopted in 1442), was adopted as national flag of Sweden, while Norway ...
The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish):
Three Crowns The lesser arms of Sweden The three crowns on Stockholm's City Hall. Three Crowns (Swedish: tre kronor) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the coat of arms of Sweden, and composed of three yellow or gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background.
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
While the cross-symbol is likely Christian in nature, the practice of decorating objects with symbols for supernatural protection purposes and thereof likely stem from pagan roots, based on various other similar finds and surviving practices which can be linked with descriptions found in Icelandic Sagas, such as horse heads.