A yellow dragon on red: the flag of Stjørdal (Norway) came from a seal of 1344 in which Saint Margaret trampled the monster.
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In 1344 the representatives of Stjørdal sealed a document with an image of Saint Margaret…
The king approved them on 25 November 1983
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Stjørdal, a municipality in the Trøndelag region of Norway, is red with a yellow dragon. The dragon comes from a medieval seal.
In 1344 the representatives of Stjørdal sealed a document with an image of Saint Margaret of Antioch standing on a dragon. The main church of the valley, in Værnes, was dedicated to her. In the late 19th century the municipality used that seal again.
For the coat of arms and the flag it was simplified: the saint disappeared and only the dragon was left. The king approved them on 25 November 1983, with a drawing by Hallvard Trætteberg.
It has not changed since it was approved in 1983.
Dragon
the monster that, according to the legend, Saint Margaret defeated. It recalls the patron saint of the old church of Værnes.
Red and yellow
the colours of the coat of arms, which the flag copies exactly.
The drawing comes from the seal stamped on 17 July 1344 on a document signed at Båhus castle, today in Sweden.
Hallvard Trætteberg was the Norwegian government’s heraldic adviser for much of the 20th century. He modernised the coat of arms of Norway and drew those of dozens of municipalities.
Almost all Norwegian municipal coats of arms and flags follow the same rule: a single figure and two colours. That is why the saint from the seal was left out.
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Text based on the article “Stjørdal, Nord-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: Strenatos, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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