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image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Etnedal. Administrative center is Bruflat.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1989-07-14-635?q=flagg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42419636@N07/6478319107
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 19 November 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 November 2015
The white variant of flag.
Tomislav Šipek, 19 November 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 November 2015
Blazon: På blå grunn ei gull kvelvingsbru. In English: Azure an arched bridge
or.
Approved by the royal resolution of 14 July 1989, after an idea by Ivar Aars
(although if the actual drawing is his it not clear from the text at
http://www.etnedal.kommune.no/etnedal/kommunevapenet/)
The design represent the Lunde bridge, a stone bridge form 1820's. Bridge is
also canting for Bruflat, the municipal centre. It also reminds that the old
royal road from Oslo to Bergen went through the municipality, and is partially
preserved. But it is also said that Etnedal links together regions of Valdres and
Land, as a bridge between them. (so from
http://www.etnedal.kommune.no/etnedal/kommunevapenet/)
Željko Heimer, 19 November 2015