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image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Lødingen.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1984-05-11-1105?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 25 January 2016
image by Tomislav Šipek, 25 January 2016
Blazon: I rødt en femsløyfet gull valknute. In English: Gules a five-looped
knot or.
Approved by the royal resolution of 11 May 984 after a drawing by Øysten H.
Skaugvolldal. [c2j87]
A similar design with four loops is known in the English heraldry as Bowen knot,
after the Bowen family that used it in its arms. Otherwise it is known as "heraldic
knot" and "true lover's knot" (although both names are ambiguous). The
description "five-looped knot" seems like quite understandable, nevertheless.
The design was chosen since the municipality is a crossing point among five
regions - Ofoten, Sor-Troms, Veseraalen, Lofoten and Salten, while the opening
between loops stand for five fjords: Tjeldsund, Ofotfjord, Tysfjord, Vestfjord
and Gullesfjord.
The "valknut" is a name of symbol named in the sagas, variously depicted - most
often as knot of three interlaced triangles. It was connected with warrior
spirits and stand for loyalty, love and concord.
Željko Heimer, 28 January 2016