Cheap Danish flag in HCM. The Danish flag (Danish: Dannebrog) is a red flag, with a white cross extending to the edges.

The cross design on the flag represents Christianity, which was later adopted by the Nordic countries on their national flags; the Swedish flag, the Norwegian flag, the Finnish flag, the Iceland flag, the Åland Islands flag, the Faroe Islands flag as well as the flags of the Shetland Islands and the Scottish Orkney Islands. During the personal alliance period between Denmark and Norway, the Danish flag was also the flag of Norway and so on, with a slight modification, until 1821 when Norway introduced the Norwegian National Flag. The current.

Because the legendary origin of this flag dates back to the 13th century, the Danish flag is considered to be the oldest flag ever used to date. The Guinness Book of Records (2010) noted that "Dannebrog" is the "oldest national flag in the world" still in use, when the adjective was first officially used in 1625. According to legend Denmark had this flag during the "Battle of Lyndanisse" in 1219. The Danes had trouble during the Crusades in Estonia, but after praying to God, a flag fell from the sky. After receiving the flag, King Valdemar II of Denmark defeated the Estians. The use of this flag was first recorded several centuries later.

Origin of the legend The legend
of the flag originated from the Battle of Lyndanisse, also known as the Battle of Valdemar (Danish: "Volmerslaget"), near Lyndanisse (Tallinn) in Estonia, on December 15, 1919.

The war had gone awry with the Danes, and defeat seemed imminent. However, a Danish priest on a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, and the more he prayed, the closer the Danes were to victory. In a tired moment he could not raise his arms to pray, the Danes lost and were about to lose. The priest needed two soldiers to lift up his arms to pray, and the Danes again advanced, and when the victory was near, the 'Dannebrog' flag fell from the sky. The king took the flag up high for the troops, their hearts were eager to fight and eventually the Danes won the battle.

According to legend, the Dannebrog flag was given to the Danes by God himself, and from that day on it became the flag of the kings and the country of Denmark.

Dannebrog fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse, 15.6.1219. Christian artist August August Lorentzen painted in 1809. Hanging picture in the National Museum of Art, Denmark
There is no historical record to prove the legend. After the aforementioned battle for more than 300 years, this legend was first recorded, and the record links this legend to a much smaller battle, though it also happened in Estonia before: '' Fellin '' (Viljandi) in 1208. Although there is no historical record of the flag at Fellin, it is understandable why a small battle in an unknown place has been replaced by the Battle of Reval. (Tallinn) was bigger during the campaign of King Valdemar II in Estonia.

This story comes from two sources written from the beginning of the sixteenth century.

The first source is Christiern Pedersen's "Danske Krønike" (History of Danish Chronicle), a follow-up to Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, written in 1520-1523. translation of King Valdemar II in Estonia, but involving a campaign in Russia. He also thought that the flag that had fallen from the sky during King Valdemar II's campaign in Russia, was the same flag that King Eric of Pomerania took with him when he left the country after being deposed in 1440.

The second source is the article by Franciscan Petrus Olai (Peder Olsen) in Roskilde in 1527.

This record describes a battle in 1208 near a place called "Felin" during the campaign of King Valdemar II in Estonia. The Danes were about to be defeated when a sheepskin flag depicted a white cross falling from the sky and led the Danes to a strange victory. In another account of Petrus Olai called "Danmarks Tolv Herligheder" (12 Danish splendor), the 9th splendor is the narrative account (about the flag) almost verbatim; however, one chapter has been changed to 1219.

It is currently unknown: Do these accounts really describe a long-standing oral tradition that existed at the time, or was it just a fabrication made in the sixteenth century?

It is believed that the name of Estonian capital Tallinn comes from the aforementioned battle. Tallinn derives from the word "" Taani linn "", which means "Danish city" in Estonia.