Norway National Flag on Wood
by Movie Poster Prints
Title
Norway National Flag on Wood
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Movie Poster Prints
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
The flag of Norway is red with an indigo blue Scandinavian cross outlined 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 flag of Denmark.
Fredrik Meltzer submitted his proposal just in time to be exhibited in parliament on 4 May 1821 together with a large number of other proposals. It was approved by both chambers during the following two weeks. Meltzer himself provided no written explanation of his choice of design and colors. However, his intentions may be inferred from an earlier letter of 30 April with his comments regarding the proposal from the flag committee. That design was divided quarterly red and white. Meltzer objected to the colors because they were too similar to those of the Danish flag. He added that it would be equally unseemly to choose the colors of any of "those states with which we have been or are connected". Instead, he recommended a tricolor of red, white and blue, "three colors that now denote freedom, such as we have seen in the French flag of freedom, and still see in that of the Dutch and Americans, and in the Union of the English".
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