Last modified: 2002-02-01 by elias granqvist
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The flag is a banner of the arms;
arms granted on 18 June 1949.
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Elias Granqvist 2000-Oct-01
Is it customary to place the stars close to or adjacent to the reindeer? To me it looks like the stars are connected to the reindeer. Or is this the artist's interpretation?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2000-Oct-06
The custom, at least in Sweden, would be to put the stars in a pattern of straight rows on the shield regardless of the other charge or charges on the field, when the field is starry/the number of stars is not stated. Therefore, some of the stars might well happen to seem adjacent to the reindeer in this flag (the same can be the case about the blue balls and the elk in County of G�vleborg). The stars are however not directly aimed to be adjacent to the reindeer - it just happen to be that way in this interpretation of the arms.
Elias Granqvist 2000-Oct-07
Blazoned in English: "Quartered, Azure Seme of Mullets Or a Reindeer in full course Argent attired and hoofed Gules, and Argent a Wildman stantant Gules wrapped with birch leaves Vert on the head and around the waist holding a Club Or in dexter over the shoulder."
English blazon by Zeljko Heimer, 2000-Oct-04
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