At the end of last month the Forest Finns, a Finnish minority living in Central Sweden and Norway, have officially been given a flag. The second image is the previous unofficial flag they had since 1978.
At the end of last month the Forest Finns, a Finnish minority living in Central Sweden and Norway, have officially been given a flag. The second image is the previous unofficial flag they had since 1978.
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Cool, cross post it to r/vexillology they will love it over there!!
To give context, the Forest Finns are a group of Finns from Savonia who migrated to Sweden and Norway in the 16th century. Known for their slash-and-burn agriculture, they have kept their culture until recent assimilation. Forest Finn organizations have sprung up to further preserve and inform about Forest Finn culture and have started a contest in 2021 to change the flag of the Forest Finns to promote visibility. The winner was chosen in late December 2022 and is now the official flag for the Forest Finns.
[https://www.loos.se/den-skogsfinska-flaggan-en-symbol-for-samhorighet-och-ursprung/](https://www.loos.se/den-skogsfinska-flaggan-en-symbol-for-samhorighet-och-ursprung/)
I like it. It’s different, in a good way. Not just a boring cross.
Stays true to the traditional flag design of the Nordics, but with a twist, kinda. Four fields and a “cross” with some extra lines and a diamond shape at the crossroads.
Like a cubic representation of a traffic circle. Yeah. That is what it reminds me of. It’s a traffic circle, as designed by Picasso.
Looks a bit like a traffic sign.
The old flag was pretty, the new one… No. The colors are horrible together. Mustard-letchup with rotting lettuce underneath.
You can see why they chose those colours if they used fire to clear the forest to farm.
I have never heard about these people, the museum looks incredible in Norway.
Wakanda called. They want their flag back.
The shade of green used is not pleasant and doesn’t really invoke forest as well as the shade used previously.
I like the nod to savonian and tavastia by using their colors but the article is mistaken, while Tavastia does use red and black, Savonias colors are black and gold, which makes the shade of yellow used a bit off too.
I know it’s a nordic thing but I hate that we all use the cross in our flags, especially how proud we should be of our own mythos. ^^fucking ^^swedes
Nitpicking aside great thing for them to get a new flag and having more recognition as a group, my family came from Sweden to Finland in the 14th century and migrated to Savonia so there could be even some distant relation to the forest finns.
The latter one is made popular by Type O Negative as the flag of Vinnland, which has nothing to do with Finland, rather with Greenland.
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That is one ugly flag 😖 Who ever designed it must have been color blind. Maybe completely blind even.
I just saw a presentation showing that first one about a week ago
Who gave it to them? Why would they not choose it and adopt it themselves?
So there are oppressed Finns in Sweden? Do we need a referendum to liberate them to the Finnish empire?
I actually like it. The diamond could be smaller (two thirds the size really) but I like the concept. It’s distinctly Nordic, but doesn’t scream Christianisation and assimilation under a foreign conqueror.
[The new flag with the old green color](https://i.imgur.com/YIjiu7U.png)
Very sweet.
Now let them try to secede, and see how Swedish tanks roll over their dead bodies, and then wrap them in this flag.
That was some ugly ass unofficial flag they used to have.
Kekistan?! 😳
“The Forest Finns”… that sounds really LOTR for some reason. “And up in the north lived the forest Finns, a proud, hard-working people.”
Looks like a Native American flag
That’s dope, congrats to them
That flag looks really good
In what why is Skogsfinnarna a minority?