Rollag, Buskerud (Norway)

Last modified: 2015-11-16 by zoltán horváth
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 30 October 2015

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms

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• Buskerud
• Norway
• Norwegian city flags

The Flag

Here is flag and coat of arms of Rollag.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1993-06-25-638?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 30 October 2015

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 30 October 2015

Blazon: I rødt to gull spisser som møtes i øvre skjoldrand. English: Gules two piles in point issuing from the base or.
It was approved by the royal resolution of 25 June 1993.
From http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Rollag  "The arms represent an old warning cairn made of timber." This site in Norwegian explains that the design represenst a stylized "varde" - a  beacon set atop of a hill used for signalling (i.e. as a distress call).
Now, there are still old cairns on the hills around Rollag, but it seems that the background story is so well known that I can't find it in a quick search.
Željko Heimer, 11 November 2015