Flags of The Nordic Countries
Note that most of these flags are historical or have not been officially adopted and their use remains limited.
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Reconstruction of the flag of the Kalmar Union; Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1397–1523) - Ship flag from the Kalmar Union period, featuring a Nordic cross and the arms of the constituent kingdoms.
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Flag of the Nordisk Flaggselskap or Nordic Flag Society
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Famous quotes containing the words flags of, flags and/or countries:
“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Still, it is dear defiance now to carry
Fair flags of you above my indignation,”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)