Coat of arms of Sandnes
Sandnes’s 2019 municipal report says its city arms were selected for the new municipality; SNL describes the 1972 arms as a silver clay whistle on green.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record SV
The Swedish motif description in the Heraldica record is not used here as a substitute for an official 2019 blazon. Sandnes Municipality’s 2019 report confirms that the city arms were chosen for the new municipality; SNL describes the 1972 arms separately.
I grönt fält en lergök av silver.
The description of the 1972 arms
Store norske leksikon describes the arms approved in 1972 as a silver leirgauk, a clay whistle, on a green field. This is SNL’s historical description; the municipality’s 2019 report records the selection but does not give the blazon wording.
Sources: Store norske leksikon: Sandnes
The city arms adopted for the new municipality
Sandnes Municipality’s 2019 annual report says the arms project was completed and the joint committee adopted Sandnes’s city arms for the new municipality under case 8/19 on 7 May 2019. SNL names Johannes Haukland as the designer of the 1972 arms and links the clay whistle to the city’s ceramic industry and the Sandnesgauk, a type of ocarina. This interpretation is attributed to SNL.
Sources: Sandnes kommune: Årsrapport 2019, samfunns- og utviklingsresultat·Store norske leksikon: Sandnes
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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