Two axes and an archbishop’s cross in red on yellow: the flag of Sør-Trøndelag recalled Saint Olaf and the old see of Trondheim.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Historical flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 5:8 ratio, yellow, with the figures of the provincial coat of arms in red: it is an armorial flag, the coat of arms put onto cloth.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
It adopted it on 9 December 1983
It stopped being used in 2018, when the county merged with its northern neighbour
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
Sør-Trøndelag was a county in central Norway, with its capital in Trondheim. Its flag was yellow with two axes and an archbishop’s cross in red. It stopped being used in 2018, when the county merged with its northern neighbour.
Like most Norwegian counties, Sør-Trøndelag had a flag that repeated its coat of arms. It adopted it on 9 December 1983, and took it from an emblem the archbishopric of Trondheim had already used in the 15th century.
It did not change while the county existed. On 1 January 2018 Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag merged into a single county, Trøndelag, after a referendum, and the flag stopped being official.
Axes
the axe of Saint Olaf, the holy king of Norway, who also appears in the royal coat of arms of the country.
Archbishop’s cross
the archbishopric of Trondheim, the seat of the Church in Norway during the Middle Ages.
The figures come from an emblem the archbishopric of Trondheim used in the 15th century, when it was the seat of the Norwegian Church.
The holy king appears on several flags on this site: here with his axes, on that of Trondheim with his rose, and in the story of Sarpsborg, the town he founded.
The two Trøndelag counties had been separate for more than two hundred years when they reunited in 2018, after a referendum held two years earlier.
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Text based on the article “South Trøndelag (Norway) — Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: PNG flag by AlexR.L. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)Coat of arms by SKvalen (PD-Norwegian CoA)SVG flag by SiBr4, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
