World flags

[slleipnir]

PEI's flag

[Vio&Juni]

Killear Kitties, do you like my glasses?

In October, the qualifying game between Moldova and Scotland was played in Chisinau and I got these from some Scottish guys we helped with some consular issues.

[Lillycat]

this is a really great thread.....thanks to all!!!

[ChrisH]

The Welsh Flag



The Welsh flag has two equal horizontal stripes, white above green, and a large red dragon passant.

The ancient poets Aneirin and Taliesin use the Welsh word for dragon "draig" in the sense of "warrior" or "leader" and this usage remained to the Middle Ages. In the Historia Brittonum (ascribed to Nennius) of around 800 A.D. the dragon is seen as a symbol of national independence in the story of the red dragon battling with the white dragon of the Saxon enemy.

Some say that the Red Dragon was originally a griffin on the standard of a Roman legion headquartered in North Wales, but early came to be associated with the fighting dragons imprisoned by Lludd and Llefelys. The significance of these dragons was pointed out by Myrddin, the Merlin of Arthurian legend. Two dragons, one white, one red, had fought for many years. The white dragon at first prevailed but in the end the red dragon overcame the white. Myrddin explained that the Welsh would ultimately, after a long period of adversity, overcome the foreign invaders, and maintain their language, lands and freedom.

Despite its occasional use by other figures famous in Welsh history, the red dragon became the symbol of the Welsh nation through its adoption by the Tudor ancestors of king Henry VII. Edmund and Jasper Tudor had a dragon as crest and supporter to the arms granted them by Henry VI. When Henry Tudor faced king Richard III at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 his battle standards numbered three. One of these carried the arms of St. George of England, one the arms of the house of Beaufort and on one was a "Red ffyry dragon peyntid upon white and Grene Sarcenet". It is held that this dragon banner represented Henry Tudor's claim to be a true representative of the ancient kings of Britain and served as his tribute to the Welsh people who had made his victory possible.

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[ChrisH]

Originally posted by Killearn Kitties
The flag of the United Kingdom
is made up of the flag of St Andrew, the Patron Saint of Scotland (diagonal white cross on a blue background), St George, Patron Saint of England (red cross on white background) and St Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland (diagonal red cross on white background).

Just want to add this info about the Union flag to Karen's ..

The Union Flag, or Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom and it is so called because it embodies the emblems of the three countries united under one Sovereign - the kingdoms of England and Wales, of Scotland and of Ireland (although since 1921 only Northern Ireland has been part of the United Kingdom).

The cross saltire of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, is a diagonal red cross on a white ground. This was combined with the previous Union Flag of St George and St Andrew, after the Act of Union of Ireland with England (and Wales) and Scotland on 1 January 1801, to create the Union Flag that has been flown ever since.

The Welsh dragon does not appear on the Union Flag. This is because when the first Union Flag was created in 1606, the Principality of Wales by that time was already united with England and was no longer a separate principality.

[Killearn Kitties]

Nice glasses Vio!! I imagine they would make your eyes go a bit funny if you wore them for too long! Now, I don't think you posted a Moldovan flag and story, did you?

Good grief, Chris! Are you a closet historian in your spare time?

[Vio&Juni]

Originally posted by Killearn Kitties
Nice glasses Vio!! I imagine they would make your eyes go a bit funny if you wore them for too long! Now, I don't think you posted a Moldovan flag and story, did you?

No story, but I posted the flag

[Killearn Kitties]

Oops, sorry, so you did! I should have been paying more attention.

[Corinna]

Thesite wouldn't come up for me but Most people think Montana is another world.