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image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 February 2017
Bodø had arms and flag approved 24 July 1959: A yellow sun on red. The designer
was the grand old man of Norwegian heraldry, Hallvard Trætteberg. He took an element
- the sun - from the arms Bodø had used since 1889
. These arms also included a boat
on the sea in front of a range of mountains (really the profile of an island off
the coast of the city). Bodø (in the county of Nordland)
is the first Norwegian city north of the Arctic circle, and so the sun represents
the midnight sun.
Jan Oskar Engene, 6 August 1996
The flag of Bodø is already presented here, but there is better image, and
also logo-flag of municipality.
Source:
http://www.bodo.no/wips/999912241/
Tomislav Šipek, 15 October 2015
We already has most what [c2j87] has to say about it. I may add from
there the official blazon:
På rød bunn en gull sol.
The 1889 coat of arms shown in [c2j87] is exactly
this
image from this page
(i.e. from the same source this page got it :)
Another version of the old coat of arms may be seen in the Coffe Hag album as shown
here and yet
another at
Wikipedia
originating from the Bodo web site, but apparently not there any more...
Željko Heimer, 15 October 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 15 October 2015
Yuk to the logo flag! but this must be a temporary (tourist propaganda)
thing.
Željko Heimer, 15 October 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 October 2015
Here are flag and coat of arms of Bodo.
Tomislav Šipek, 19 October 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 February 2017
From 1. January 2005 the municipality of Skjerstad (number 1842), in the
county of Nordland, was joined to the city of Bodø. Thus the symbols adopted
by Skjerstad in 1990 and approved by Royal resolution dated 14. June 1991, a
white millstone on a green field for the flag, became obsolete (the official
Norwegian description was: "I grønt en hvit kvernstein").
Source: Engene, Jan Oskar; Kommunesammenslutning gir nye flagg
(New flags following municipal); Nordisk flagkontakt / Nordisk Flaggkontakt [nfk] 42 (2006),
pp. 50-55
Jan Oskar Engene, 23 July 2006
image by Tomislav Šipek, 09 November 2015
Here is coat of arms of Skjerstad.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1991-06-14-414?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 09 November 2015