Talk:Household pennant

translation
Not sure why the most basic translation, "husband pennant", is relegated to a footnote... AnonMoos (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Questions
This was an interesting article to come across, and I have a few questions: Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my questions, ideally by adding the information to the article. If you can take a photo of a house with a pennant to show how they appear in context, or a photo of a family or local pennant, that would be a really useful addition too. Credulity (talk) 15:38, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * What kind of flagpoles are they flown from? Freestanding ones outside the front of the house, or angled ones attached to the wall near the door like you see with some Americans who put flags on their houses, or something else?
 * Roughly how common are they, and do they appear more in certain areas or certain social groups (well-kept family homes as opposed to shared houses with unrelated young people, for example)?
 * Do people who live in flats/apartments fly them somehow? Like from their balconies maybe?
 * What do the family, city and municipality variants look like? Are the family pennants just unique ones that are designed however the family wishes, on aesthetic grounds, or are they passed down through the family with colours and patterns being kept the same over the years?
 * Do people fly political flags, peace flags, etc?
 * When the article says that pennants are flown when the "master of the house" is at home, does this mean generally at home (like he's living there at the moment and not on holiday or travelling, but he might be out at the shops at that precise moment), or does it mean literally at home (the pennant is taken down when he goes to work for the day, or goes for a walk for five minutes)?
 * How did this custom arise and are there similar customs in the other Nordic countries?


 * There may probably be some litterature on this topic but I will try to answer only according common experience. 1) Usually Household pennants are flown in freestanding flagpoles. The american version probably does not occur in Finland. 2) Those who alreydy happen to have a flagpole and a national flag, may well flow a household pennant too. Being symbols of the historical provinces of Finland or the present day provinces of Finland they are used very much in same manner and to demonstrate the same values as the national flag of Finland. In Finland, Zachris Topelius in his book Boken om vårt land (fi. Maamme-kirja) very much created the regional identitities of the historical provinces of finland as an essential part and a dimension of the patriotic Finnish national identity, and thus symbols of the provinces are part of the patriotic national identity. Especially it may be used by those who appreciate their home province, whether they happen to live there or in some other part of the country. 3) Only the National flag may be flown from the balcony in some very rare occasions, but there would hardly be any occasion where a household pennant would be flown like that. 4) Usually the family, city and municipality variants are based on the coat of arms, I guess. 5) Political flags are used only in political parades, and for example in important political meetings, not in the flagpoles of private homes. 5) There may be some rules or recommendations when the pennant should be flown, like there are rules for the national flag, but I don't remember exactly. 6) No idea.--Urjanhai (talk) 15:46, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Another practical question (as a non native speaker of english): shouhd articles about pennants like this be categorized in category:Flags of Finland? (i. e. is a pennant defined as a flag or not?) --Urjanhai (talk) 13:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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