Coat of arms of Gjesdal
Gjesdal’s municipal arms show a silver ram’s head on blue. The municipality links the motif to its long tradition of sheep farming and wool and textile production.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record SV
The automatically assembled Swedish description in the Heraldica record is registry information; it is not confirmed here as an official blazon.
I blått fält ett vädursansikte av silver.
The arms motif
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record names a silver ram’s head on blue. Gjesdal Municipality explicitly says the ram’s head symbolizes its long tradition of sheep farming and wool and textile industries.
Source: Heraldica record 3683·Gjesdal kommune: Fakta om Gjesdal
Wool and local industry
The municipality connects the ram’s head with the area’s long history of sheep farming and wool and textile production. Its page about the mayoral chain also identifies the ram separately as Gjesdal’s municipal arms; meanings assigned to the chain’s other historical motifs are not transferred to the arms.
Source: Gjesdal kommune: Fakta om Gjesdal·Gjesdal kommune: Ordførerkjedet i Gjesdal
Sources and image rights
Heraldica record · Image file page on Wikimedia Commons · Wikidata
Wikimedia Commons lists this image as: Public domain
Creator listed on Commons: Original by caplex.no
More image information
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Licence information for the Heraldica reference image: CC BY-SA 3.0. Rights information may differ between image sources.
SVG is own work, based upon image from caplex.no.