| The flag for Vinland,
or more precisely "the people's technocratic republic of
Vinland" appears on the back of the three latest albums
of the Goth-Rockgroup Type O Negative as well on
numerous t-shirts. The flag is supposed to symbolize the
republic of Vinland situated in North America. Vinland
and it's flag are the brain child of the hulking
black-haired front man of the band Type O Negative: Peter
Steele. Steele incorporated his idea's of paganism,
left/right wing political flirtations and his own
heritage (his mother was part Icelandic) into a concept
of a republic named after the first name the Vikings
gave to north America: Vinland.
The Vikings landed in New
Foundland around 1000 a.d. and built a colony there.
Steele takes this idea and tries to imagine what America
would be like if the Vikings had actually stayed, and
built a civilization there. Based on that he designed a
new flag in a Scandinavian cross pattern and gives it his
favorite colors: green, black and white (which
coincidently remind me of the German war cross).
The concept of the
people's technocratic republic only appears once in the
song title "The glorious liberation of the people's
technocratic republic of Vinland by the combined forces
of the united territories of Europe". In one of his
interviews Steele says that he thinks the world would be
better off if it were governed by scientists, hence
technocratic. for more information see here - Jitse
Verwer, 8 december 2000
It is a historical fact, that Vikings really got to what
now is called Newfoundland, and probably to Labrador and
perhaps even more to the south of the North American
coast too. However, they did not call that land "Vinland"
but Vinland. It is thought that the name came from the
presence of currants ("vinb?r" in modern Swedish), not
of a supposed presence of vine or grapes. - Elias
Granqvist , 9 december 2000
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