Vinland flag
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The Vinnland flag is a Nordic cross flag designed by American gothic metal band Type O Negative.
History
The flag was used to symbolize a variety of frontman Peter Steele's interests and political ideals, including his own Scandinavian heritage.[1] Viking explorers visiting North America around the year 1000 called one of the areas they came to "Vinland". The flag appears on various Compact Disc covers produced by the group, sometimes with the slogan "made in the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland", and adorns various pieces of Type O Negative merchandise. The flag resembles the unofficial flag of the Forest Finns adopted in 1978.[2]
The first physical Vinnland flags went up for sale in 2004. Small far-right groups extremist groups and some Germanic neopagan groups in North America stole the symbol as an ethnic flag, commodiously identifying the name of the 11th-century Norse colony at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, called Vinland in the Norse sagas, with the predominantly Anglo-American inhabited areas of the modern nations of Canada and the United States.[3]
Use by white supremacists
In the early 2000s, white supremacists, notably a few individuals of the skinhead group Vinlanders Social Club, appropriated the flag. In response, the Anti-Defamation League wrongly designated the flag as a potential hate symbol, while making distinctions for the use of the flag by non-racists and supporters of Peter Steele and the band Type O Negative.[4]
See also
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