Puzzle Description:

The Danish flag, the easist to make, but also the best looking flag in the world ;)

#1: Ida Stagsted (dipsyhappy) on Jun 24, 2007

I made this one just because i'm a Dane, it is a very easy puzzle and doesn't take any skills at all.

Yeah, most flags make rather crummy puzzles, though you can sometimes spice them up a bit by letting them ripple in the wind a bit.

On the other hand, it's kind of a neat that people want to display their flags. We've got about half a dozen American flags, two Union Jacks, and one Canadian flag that I can think of.

Very nice. :-D

It's an attractive flag, however as I noted in another puzzle, the flag of Libya would probably hold the dubious distinction of being the easiest flag puzzle of all. I'd like to try the other flag puzzles for fun. Are they easy to find? Thanks for the puzzle Ida.

Probably the smallest "speed solved" to "puzzle size" ratio I've done.

Dannebrogen!

And I was hoping for a sweetroll. Hey, I'm on my coffee break, what can I say?

to stjarna, I can't say your comment would have been a spoiler to me!

Nice!

J.C. - Danneborg is the name of the danish flag. Like you call yours stars and stribes. Danneborg is also the oldest or first flag dated back to june 15 1219. The story goes that the flag fell from heaven during the Battle of Lyndanisse and it helped result in Danish victory. Denmark is allso the first named country that historians know. Its found writen on a runestone from around year 965.

Sorry to go on like this, just so proud to be a Dane...

Fascinating information Rea. Thank you so much! :-)

thats what you get from a librarian, its what we do best (and love btw)

Danish Librarians rock! :-D

lol thanks gypso

I feel like I ought to be crying out against the brutal Danish conquerors of my ancestoral homeland, the land that I am named after (my full name is Jan Dithmar Wolter), but I guess I'll give it a pass. After all, it almost 450 years ago and darned few of my ancestors were actually from Dithmarschen and I've never even actually been there myself, so maybe it's time to drop the grudge.

Okay Jan. I'm glad for you that the feeling has passed, but could you tell us more about Dithmarschen?
Oh, and which side of the family did your middle name come from?

well if we are talking grudges germany did inwade all of denmark and that was only last century... no grudges here though

I think I've told this story here before somewhere. My father's father really hated Hitler, the Nazi's and all they stood for. However, while that government was in power this was an unwise sentiment to express publicly. My guess is that this is part of the reason why he filled his house with memorablia from Dithmarschen - he had flags and pictures and banners, you name it. This was OK with the Nazis, who liked to venerate German folk culture, but at the same time Dithmarschen was the polar opposite of everything that the Nazi's stood for. Dithmarschen was an early peasant farmer democracy that managed to fight off domination from neighboring countries for quite a long time. Eventually, like all the German states, it fell to one of the various waves of consolidation. My grandfather lived near Dithmarschen, but not in it. His ancestors weren't from that area at all, though some of his wife's ancestors were. But I think he picked on them as an ideal because while the Nazi's idealized trying to unite all the German people under one government, Dithmarschen stood for independence and resistance to that whole kind of movement. So I think it was a sideways way of expressing his opposition to the Nazi's that wouldn't get him thrown in prison.

Anyway, my dad, raised in this atmosphere of Dithmarschen-worship, gave me the middle name "Dithmar". My mom was never terribly fond of it, and once quietly gave me permission to change it if I wanted, but I rather like it. I have a few of my grandfather's Dithmarschen items - a flag, an old map, but I don't think I've ever even been there. Might have driven through on one of my few short childhood visits to Germany.

Interesting story :)

Thanks Jan

Ditto #18!
About the puzzle... It has 4 columns too many:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Denmark-proportions-da.svg

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