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image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Hornindal. Administrative center is Grodås.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1987-08-07-665?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 09 December 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 09 December 2015
Blazon: På blå grunn tre sølv ljåblad, 1-1-1. In English: Azure three scythe
blades fesswise in pale.
Approved by the royal resolution of 7 August 1987., after a drawing by Petter
Eide. [c2j88]
According to the
municipal
web site the reason for the choice of scythe blades is because the
municipality had a large numbers of smith and their scythe production was well
known in wider region. It is said that there was not unusual that there was some
200 smiths in the municipality. A concurrent proposal for the municipal symbol
were three fiddles on green, for the strong fiddle production, but this [current
design] was
chosen eventually.
Željko Heimer, 12 December 2015
I think the people of Bø i Telemark might
not have like that much. On 19 November of the same year, they decided on: Red,
three gold fiddles, thus Hornindal could have disturbed a selection process that
was well on its way.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 March 2016
Eight turn-knobs, eight strings?! That’s twice more than a normal fiddle /
violin has, or am I wrong?
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 March 2016
They are indeed fiddles, not violins, to be precise, they are Hardanger
fiddles. The major characteristic of Hardanger fiddles, which distinguishes it
from other fiddles, is that they have a set of (normally four) resonator
strings below the bowed strings. Because of this they require twice as many
knobs, and indeed have twice as many strings.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 March 2016