Talk:Flag of Iceland

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autosigned comment (2012)[edit]

The Icelandic flag has NO connection with christianity nor was it modeled after anything related to christianity according to official government websites. This article is a complete lie. Radical christian's strike again. Christians please keep your propaganda at home and stop trying to put christianity on everything or I will personally make sure you get to live hell on earth! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.160.192.226 (talk) 09:35, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Angry Antichristian was here... Flag of Island is based on Danmark's, right? and the danish flag was made as a memory of a battle won by a christian king fighting against pagan. So, the statement of official website says one thing, and history says another, but no one but you ever claimed that both couldn't be true at the same time.
regards.2A01:E0A:298:C920:B87D:D80E:7C98:7F58 (talk) 13:37, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Change of the blue[edit]

I remember seeing pictures of the Icelandic flag when the blue was a little more dull. Dose anyone have confirmation about this? It looked prity mutch like the blue on the last flat at flagspot.net. --86.35.243.206 23:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The original version was supposed to have "sky-blue" color as the 1918 laws state. Later in 1944 it was decided to have a darker color. This fact has actully escaped a few flag manufacturers (non-icelandic ones) who continue even now to make Icelandic flags in the 1918 style used by the Kingdom of Iceland, instead of the modern one used by the Republic of Iceland. This has even resulted in the old flag being displayed at meetings between the president of the U.S. and the prime minister of Iceland. --130.208.189.147 22:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When???[edit]

Paragraph 1 says the flag was adopted in 1944, but the photo caption says 1915. Which is it. Please explain. --Tagishsimon

It was adopted in 1915 but was not official as a national flag until 1944. From 1915-1944 the flag had the same status as the farose flag has now, basically something that defines a state within a state and not and indepentent republic.

Anyway, thanks for your input, i will try to make this clear in the yet-to-be-made == History == section. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:31, 2004 May 14 (UTC)

State flag replacing[edit]

If someone wants to make a better version of the state flag. Please refer to the 2.mgr 2.gr of laws nr.34 from 1944 and make sure you get the propery measured cut. The easy illegal version is not only less "beautiful," but illegal, which is of course fairly illegal to do and so on and forth... ---Kjallakr 00:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warships?[edit]

This article gives conflicting information: is the state flag used on warships or not?

Iceland has no military, hence no warships. The article is however clear that the state flag may be flown by any vessel functioning in an official capacity. I guess that a hypothetical Icelandc navy would use the state flag. --Bjarki 11:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no conflicting information is there? The state flag, Tjúgufáninn is used on the ships of the Icelandic Coast Guard. The Icelandic Coast Guard being the Icelandic "Navy." Also, back in the day the customs used ships, they used their special flag with the "T", but then again, their boats were unarmed and not grayskinned. --Kjallakr 16:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of the colors[edit]

Beeing Icelandic I remember learning something about what the colors mean. This is what I think it means. Blue: for the ocean, White: for the snow and Red: for the fire in the volcanos. Can some one confirme this. I might be mistaken, maybe it was blue for the sky and so on. Thanks --81.215.81.222 19:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I got told:

Blue - strength and resiliance of the Oceans.
White - purity of the snow.
Red - heated passion like the volcano fires and blood.

SKC

Law quoted in intro[edit]

Is it possible to reference the law in question here, and is the quotation(/translation) correct to speak of "squares" and not "rectangles" or "polygons"? -- Hestemand 21:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The word used is reitur, which means square as far as I know. Rectangles and polygons are called ferhyrningar and fjölhyrningar.--Kjallakr (talk) 17:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A square in geometrical sense is a polygon with four equal sides and corners (ferningur) which is obviously not what is meant by the law, rectangle is the correct term here. --Bjarki (talk) 18:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Independence[edit]

This article says that Iceland became independent only in 1944, but other articles say that it happened in 1918. What to do with this inconcistency?

As far as I know the country became independent in 1918. From 1918 to 1944 it shared its king with Denmark (just as Queen Elizabeth reigns in 16 independent countries) and used the Danish embassies in other countries (Like e.g. Liechtenstein does with the Swiss embassies) - but that does not mean that the country is not independent.

The status of the flag was not equal to the satus of the Faroese flag since both the Danish and the Icelandic flag were displayed outside the embassies.

From the homepage of the Icelandic foreign ministry: "Iceland finally became independent in 1918. The Kingdom of Iceland shared the same monarch with Denmark. Under a special agreement, Denmark administered Iceland's foreign affairs and operated the coast guard, as decided by Iceland."

--Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 23:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No suggestions or comments? In that case, I will change the year. --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 22:12, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1918 is correct. Most Icelanders would answer 1944 when asked this question though. --Bjarki (talk) 00:20, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jørgen Jørgensen’s Flag[edit]

Shouldn’t the history section mention Jørgen Jørgensen’s flag (the one with three cods on it) as it was briefly the official flag of Iceland during his rebellion, and therefor the first official flag?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_J%C3%B8rgen_J%C3%B8rgensen_(1809).svg Rúnar Berg (talk) 02:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]