Austria's Flag

There's an interesting legend about Austria's flag that most of the people here in Austria know. Our flag is considered to be one of the oldest flag designs in the world, apparently created sometime during the crusades. Anyway, the story says that Duke Leopold the Fifth of Austria came back from a battle with his clothes so stained with blood that when he took off his belt, there was a perfectly clean white stripe between the red.

Austria's modern day flag, of course, has this design - two red stripes on the top and bottom with a white stripe in the middle.