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The falcon symbol which the Independence Party (Sjálfstæšisflokkurinn), founded
in 1923, with the unifying of the Conservatives and Liberals (which were very
small) and is the biggest party with around 45 % of the vote.
H.M., 7 December 2002
![[Pirates]](../images/i/is}fthj1.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorović, 06 April 2013
![[Pirates]](../images/i/is}fthj2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorović, 06 April 2013
Nationalist Party (Flokkur Þjóšernissinna) was founded in 1934 by
fusion of the Icelandic Nationalist Movement (Þjóšhreyfing Íslendinga), founded in 1933, and the original Nationalist Party,
which had broken away from it earlier in 1934. The party believed in
the Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitism and intended to make Iceland a
Corporativist state, but unlike most of similar parties in other
European countries, it never developed personality cult of a supreme
leader, having had four consecutive heads during its existence. The
members, whose number never exceeded 450, were mostly passivized by
the beginning of World War II. In 1940, British invasion of Iceland
made many leave the party, begin destroying the objects related to
their membership and even start denying that they have ever been the
members. The party was officially disbanded in 1944 when the war
outcome became obvious. In Iceland today, ancestors' membership in the
Nationalist Party is still a matter of embarrassment to the people,
many descendants having destroyed the relics which had not already
been destroyed by the members themselves. Very few objects, including
the party flags, have been saved by a small number of collectors who
are interested in this period of Icelandic history.
Nationalist Party used two different flags in national colors. First
flag was derived either from the
then national flag, by replacing the red cross with a swastika in same
color, or by adding the swastika to the 19th-century proposal from
which the national flag was derived in 1915, which had no red cross at
all. The swastika was placed on a rotated white square with edges
parallel to the swastika arms, which was conjoined with the cross into
a single charge. Second flag had a
typical Nazi design, with red swastika on a white disk in center of
blue field.
Sources:
[1] Nationalist Party at Wikipedia.
[2] Gentleman's Military Interest Club -
topic about the Nationalist
Party (includes numerous color and b/w photos of the flags, some displaying
erroneously oriented swastika).
[3] FOTW website - Iceland flag history:
Tomislav Todorović, 06 April 2013
![[Pirates]](../images/i/is}pirat.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorović, 31 March 2013
Pirates (Icelandic: Píratar) is
the official name of the Pirate Party of Iceland. It was founded in
2012 and currently has one seat in the Parliament. Party flag is
purple, charged with the logo: white disk with black border, charged
with a black sail on the mast, shaped so as to resemble letter P and
additionally charged with a white stockfish. This last symbol was
borrowed from the Coat of Arms
of Iceland which was used since 16th century
until 1903. Its choice as the national distinctive mark was probably
made due to its maritime symbolism, which makes an additional,
although indirect connection with the original pirates.
Sources:
[1] Wikipedia page about the Pirates (in icelandic):
[2] Wikipedia page about the
Coat of Arms
of Iceland:
[3]
Heraldry of the World website -
Coat of Arms
of Iceland:
[4] Pirates at Facebook -
photo of party flag:
[5] Pirates at Facebook -
photo of party flag:
[6] Pirates at Facebook -
photo of party flag:
[7] Pirates at Facebook -
photo of Icelandic and German Pirate Parties' flags:
[8] Pirates at Facebook -
photo of Icelandic and German Pirate Parties' flags:
Flag image isderived from the image of
party logo from
Wikipedia.
Shade of purple is chosen after numerous examples of party Web
graphics which employ it, from the galleries at Facebook which also
contain the photos listed above as the sources. This shade seems to be
a good representation of the real-life color.
Tomislav Todorović, 31 March 2013
You've listed the pirates as having 1 MP seat when we actually have 3
as can be seen
here.
Jason, 30 March 2015
Tomislav Todorović wrote the original contribution on 31 March 2013. At that
time this party had only one MP (Birgitta Jónsdóttir) in the Icelandic
parliament.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_parliamentary_election,_2013#Incumbent_parliament
The elections held on 27 April 2013, when they won three seats, so Tomislav's
data was right when he wrote his article,
Zoltan Horvath, 30 March 2015
