Coat of arms of Gagnef
Gagnef’s arms show a gold pall formed by wavy lines on a red field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält ett genom vågskura bildad gaffelkors av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text distinguishes registry information from municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 20 December 1946: Royal confirmation on
- 3 May 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a gold pall formed by wavy lines on a red field.
Source: Heraldica record 3244
Background in local sources
Gagnef Municipality’s comprehensive plan describes the Västerdalälven and Österdalälven rivers meeting to form the Dalälven; the municipal archive also preserves records from the former municipalities of Gagnef and Floda. These sources provide geographical and archival context but do not connect the arms’ pall to the river confluence.
Source: Gagnefs kommun: Översiktsplan 2040, kapitel 1·Gagnefs kommun: Arkiv och forskning
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- field
- Or
- Gules
- pall
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
