Coat of arms of Härjedalen
On silver, Härjedalen’s arms show a black anvil viewed from above, charged with a red bloom of iron. A black smith’s tongs are to its right and two black smithing hammers with red handles to its left.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver ett svart städ sett ovanifrån belagt med en röd biljett och åtföljd till dexter av en svart tång och åtföljt till sinister av en störtad svart hammare med röd skaft i sköldhuvudet varunder en svart hammare med röd skaft.
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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1647): Used as a seal as of
- 1885: Royal confirmation on
- 23 May 1935: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
- 2015: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The upper hammer is reversed, according to the municipal blazon. The municipality connects the design with the historic working of bog iron and smithing.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipal page dates the arms’ establishment as a provincial coat of arms to 23 May 1935, but its history section also gives 1884 as the year of official establishment. The discrepancy remains unresolved.
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
- tongs
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Sable
- anvil
- billet
- hammer
- 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.
