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Use Description 1814 - 1821: Flag of Norway: Unofficial alternative merchant flag used by some shippers to distinguish it from the flag of Denmark. Based on the Dannebrog but with the lion from the Norwegian coat of arms in the canton. Merchant flag of Norway (1814–1821) during Sweden-Norway. On ships only north of Cape Finisterre, Spain.
Coats of arms were in older times relatively frequent, used by nobles as well as citizens and farmers. There are today comparatively few personal coats of arms in Norway, especially in active use, [4] and many of them are of foreign origin. Many Norwegian family arms have been created and established by private individuals and needed no grant ...
The national flag of Norway (Bokmål: Norges flagg; Nynorsk: Noregs flagg; lit. ' Norway's flag ') is red with a navy blue Scandinavian cross bordered in white that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Dannebrog, the flag of Denmark.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
Hans Egede writing on the kracken of Norway equates it with the Icelandic hafgufa, though has heard little on the latter. [ 43 ] and later, the non-native Moravian cleric David Crantz [ de ] 's History of Greenland (1765, in German) treated hafgafa as synonymous with the krake [ n ] in the Norwegian tongue.
Curiously, the U.S. Code not only restricts the use of U.S. emblems, but also explicitly the use of the Red Cross flag and, until 2020, the Flag of Switzerland (18 USC 706;708).) In Germany, the Bundesdienstflagge may not be flown by private persons but only by the holders of the official positions defined in the law. [18]
The Kraken introduced Buoy on October 1, 2022, prior to a preseason game at Climate Pledge Arena against the Vancouver Canucks. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Kraken had intended to introduce Buoy around Christmas during the 2021–22 season , but due to game postponements related to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant , the team decided to wait ...
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 ...