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Description A medieval ship flag captured from a Danish ship by forces fromLübeckin 1427 displaying the arms ofDenmark,Sweden,NorwayandPomerania.The flag remained in this city for 500 years, until destroyed in World War II during an Anglo-American bombardment that damagedSt. Mary's Churchwhere the flag was kept. A 19th century copy is exhibited at the Danish Museum of National History atFrederiksborg Palace,Denmark. The saint accompanying the Virgin Mary and infant Christ is SaintJames the Greater,identified by hisscallopshell emblem. Based on the heraldic images shown, the flag must have dated from the reign of KingEric of Pomerania.It was consequently created no earlier than 1396 and no later than the 1420s. The flag was made of coarse linen. All figures and heraldic insignia were created using oil-based paint, and the flag's two sides were imperfectly painted as mirrors of each other.
Date circa 1882
date QS:P,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source (Karl Nikolaj) Henry Petersen (20 Mar 1849 - 21 Sep 1896)[1]:Et dansk Flag fra Unionstiden i Maria-Kirken i Lübeck,Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1882, page 57. Own scan.
Author Illustration by ProfessorJulius Magnus Petersen(4 Sep 1827 – 1 Feb 1917).[2]

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