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image by Tomislav Šipek, 23 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Osen. Administrative center is Steinsdalen.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1987-03-27-217?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 15 December 2015
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 15 December 2015
Blazon: Blått dekket med sølv fiskegarn. In English: Azure fretty argent.
Approved by the royal resolution of 27 March 1987 after a drawing by Einar H.
Skjervold. [c2j88]
The NGW site
states "The arms show a part of a fishing net placed over the shield. The arms
simply indicate the importance of fishing for the community. Several different
arms were designed, all with fisheries as the main theme, but the council
finally chose for the design above, which is rather unique among Civic
Heraldry."
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2015
Similar, but no. I know that some heralds suggest using "fretty" for nets,
but they are not the same thing.
Fretty ...
- is orthogonal, rather than under 45°.
- has scarps with proper width, rather than just dimensionless lines.
- has braiding at the line crossings, rather than knots.
It's a nice pattern, though, and it's indeed in the class of "variations on the
field", just like fretty. I think it's mostly a Finnish pattern, though a few
others exist in Portugal and occasionally elsewhere. It's certainly rare. It
would say that it's a later innovation (Al-right, bring on the one example from
ages ago that it's modelled after.), and I don't know of an Anglicized French
heraldic term for it. Looking at the other part of the origin of Heraldish,
however, Dutch does have a nice word for net, namely: "net". Thus, you can have
a nice ancient-ish heraldic term for this and yet use perfectly every day
English.
I'd go for: Azure a net argent.
Not for the heraldry, but I don't know whether the other cases use it on the
field of the flag as well. Does anyone know whether Finnish municipal coat of
arms have an automatic flag attached?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 March 2016
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