The barrier in the Sound is broken and Scania slowly begins to wake up from its doze. After 200 years of almost complete silence, due to the Swedish language "reform", a new Scania based literature begins to appear, and in 1893 a Scanian flag is re-introduced. The flag has its roots in the banner of processions of the Lundian Archbishop, a golden cross on a red ground. dating back to the 10th century.