Coat of arms of Time
Time’s municipal arms show a silver lapwing with outspread wings on a red field. The municipality connects the bird with Jæren’s identity and agricultural landscape.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record SV
The automatically assembled Swedish registry wording in Heraldica is kept separate from the editorial text. It is not confirmed here as the municipality’s official blazon.
I rött fält en tofsvipa av silver med utbredda vingar.
The arms motif
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record names a silver lapwing with outspread wings. Time Municipality’s biodiversity knowledge base says the lapwing is iconic to Jæren and appears in the municipal arms.
Source: Heraldica record 3682·Time kommune: Kunnskapsgrunnlaget – plan for naturmangfald (høyringsforslag)
The bird and its landscape
Time Municipality’s biodiversity knowledge base says lapwings thrive in agricultural landscapes and calls the species iconic to Jæren. Store norske leksikon states that the arms were approved in 1977 and interprets the lapwing as a sign of spring in Jæren, associated with optimism and expectation.
Source: Time kommune: Kunnskapsgrunnlaget – plan for naturmangfald (høyringsforslag)·Store norske leksikon: Time – kommune i Rogaland
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
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