Vestre Slidre, Oppland (Norway)

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image by Tomislav Šipek, 04 December 2015

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The flag

Here is flag and coat of arms of Vestre Slidre. Administrative center is Slidre.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1987-11-20-1046?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 04 December 2015

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 04 December 2015

Blazon: På blå grunn eit sølv sjøblad omgjeve av sølv bord laga med taggesnitt. In English: Azure a sea-leaf within a tressure invected on the outer edge and engrailed on the inner edge argent.
Approved by the royal resolution of 20 November 1987 after a drawing by Kari Ruud Flem. [c2j88] (however, the legal source on-line claims it was crownprince-regent's resolution instead, and we should probably beleive it)
On http://www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Slidre-kyrkje it is said that the Slidredomen (i.e. the Vestre Slidre church) on its north wall interior has a medieval depiction of a coat of arms that is used [today] as the Vestre Slidre coat of arms.
I am not sure if the tressure in the flag should not be rectangular following the model of the Scottish flag, but we may not know exactly what was meant without further sources.
Željko Heimer, 05 December 2015