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u/Bug_Photographer 3d ago
Given that the Danish flag preceeds the English one as a national flag, perhaps the English one should be included as a copycat as well?
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u/NearbyEquall 2d ago
The English flag is not a Nordic Cross
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u/ohboymykneeshurt 2d ago
āā¦change it a little so itās not too obvious.ā
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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk Portugal 2d ago
I mean, at the end of the day itās just crosses, crosses as symbols of national identity are really old
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u/ohboymykneeshurt 2d ago
Hey stranger. Why donāt you try and counter my jestfull comment with serious arguments and then finally ruin the same arguments with a personal insult?
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u/Matsisuu 2d ago
Dannebrogen may come from knight's hospitaller, which again is just basically Saint George's cross with inverted colours.
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u/Bug_Photographer 2d ago
Of course. It's a totally different thing. No similarity or common roots whatsoever.
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u/Bug_Photographer 2d ago
Are you a professional escalator of conflicts or are you just a very good amateur?
Chill, buddy.
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u/oceanicArboretum 2d ago
It's St. George's cross, not a Nordic cross. The same design is on the flags of Georgia (the country) and Barcelona.
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u/Bug_Photographer 2d ago
And the first guy to make this thread about "The Nordic Cross" was the guy who got pissed at me. The original post jokes about the similarity - but talk about visual similarity and in no way restrict this to be about Nordic Cross flags.
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u/LewdGamerAnonymous 2d ago
The English flag is a nordic cross, yes.
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u/NearbyEquall 2d ago
No, it's a saint George cross
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u/LewdGamerAnonymous 2d ago
Which was created AFTER the nordic cross had already existed for a century.
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u/Dingus_Suckimus Finland 3d ago
Scotland accidentally got its flag rotated 45 degrees
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u/intergalactic_spork 2d ago
It looks completely straight after enough whisky
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u/Kryds 3d ago
Denmark is number one!
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u/JimTheSaint 2d ago
Sure but Denmarks flag was of course the first - everyone else is a copy cat
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u/dixonsticks 2d ago
Sure, but the Danish flag fell out of the sky where? In Estonia.
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u/JimTheSaint 2d ago
Yes after a battle we won
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u/Sagaincolours 1d ago
It is believed that whoever made the flag for the Danes there in Estonia got the inspiration from the Knight Templar flag.
Because, surprise, Estonia was under vassalage to them when the battle took place.
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u/Strange-Doubt-7464 3h ago
The southern part of Estonia was ruled by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, who were later absorbed into the Teutonic Order, not the Knights Templar.
The cross is of course a common design element on most crusader flags.
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u/kydenius 2d ago
One of the proposed german flags was also a nordic cross flag. Imagine if Germany would be split across the Aldi Line and the North Germany could chill with us nordics as a honorary member
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u/Upstairs-Dog-5577 2d ago
That would have been beautiful. Now I am going to look up the flag you mentioned.
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u/Skaftetryne77 Norway 3d ago
We copied Dannebrog but added blue to be on team Revolution with France and the US but toppled everything by first electing a Danish king and then being forced to accept a Swedish king who was a refuge from the French Republic.
And then, 90 years later, we did the first part again.
Total loss.
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u/Kansleren 6h ago
It worked out pretty good in the end. The opposite of a total loss in other words.
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u/Skaftetryne77 Norway 5h ago
No, parts of our Royal family is a disgrace. Letās send them back to Denmark.
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u/Zalapadopa 2d ago
I personally think it's kind of amazing we all just agreed to stick to a theme
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u/fikabonds 1h ago
Everyone was like āfuck you, im going to invade you!ā But also ābut first, nice flag, ill copy that. Cheers!ā
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u/creative_tech_ai 2d ago
Not quite a flag, but the coat of arms of the Swedish town I live in. Mariestad's coat of arms
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u/skaanepaag 2d ago
Arguably the Scanian flag is the flag of the full of SkƄneland. It should include Blekinge and Halland as well.
While I've never seen it flown in Halland, it is quite common in western Blekinge.
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u/Intelligent_Fish_541 1d ago
Umm... i don't know if I'm outside the joke but I'll risk answering anyway ;P
The flags are literal crosses, solidifying their governments commitment to the Lutheran christian faith.
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u/adeln5000 3d ago
No flag of England?
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u/long-legged-lumox 2d ago edited 2d ago
Actually, you might have thrown England into the mix. It fits the pattern since the Anglish were from Denmark.
Edit: seems like everybody and their grandmother mentioned England. Sorry.
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u/NearbyEquall 2d ago
Not a Nordic Cross
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u/Slight-Ad-6553 2d ago
but sure look a lot like it
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u/Prudent_Trickutro 23h ago
Similar absolutely, and for sure the same thinking behind it but the Nordic Cross has an off sett cross, not a middle placed one as the English flag has. Not quite the same.
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u/FineMaize5778 2d ago
Nordic? The cross on our flags are somekind of christian cross, its mostly to mess with the trolls tbh. They hate the smell
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u/-nogoodboyo- 2d ago
Really small pointā¦ but that outline of West Yorkshire is massive. We get a Nordic Cross in 2013 and immediately start expanding like Vikings!
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u/Prudent_Trickutro 23h ago
Thatās the Nordic cross, canāt see whatās strange about that. Itās like having the Union Jack in the corner of your flag if your affiliated with the UK š¤·āāļø
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u/Test_On_Me 17h ago edited 15h ago
The flag cross shows how Christian we are. And all other religions are technically wrong
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u/Dalesman17 16h ago
I'm not a Christian, how are all other religions wrong, there's hundreds, why is yours right.
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u/Impressive_Driver_90 16h ago
Uuuh um yeah? Christians uuuh uhuh I guess, as long as we can enter your countries to trade or pillage, sure we'll do the baptism thing, we love to swim and bathe
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u/knappastrelevant 1h ago
As someone born and raised in the Swedish bible belt, very much into the nordic iron age history, I cannot stop thinking about this, and more. Like why did they take to christianity so hard? They went from blood sacrifice and strange gods, to christianity within relative no time and then became fundamentalists for hundreds of years. And now, atheists!
Just when you think you know them, they surprise you. I think the scandies put a lot of stock into group consciousness, social structures are rigid and crucial, but not immutable.
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u/Gummio 3d ago
You forgot to add Bornholm.