Coat of arms of Krokom
Krokom’s arms description shows blue wavy figures and a red figure on a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver två genom vågskuror bildade sänkta blå nedvända sparrar varöver en röd älg eller en hällristning.
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record leaves the red figure open to interpretation: it may be an elk or a rock carving. The ambiguity is not resolved by interpreting the artwork.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 7 October 1977: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
An unresolved reading in the record
The Heraldica record describes two inverted blue chevrons with wavy edges on a silver field, with a red elk or rock carving above them. The record does not choose between these readings.
Source: Heraldica record 3355
Rock carvings in Krokom Municipality
Krokom Municipality’s magazine features a large elk rock carving at Gärde in Offerdal. The article does not connect it to the red figure in the arms, so the figure’s meaning is left open here.
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
- petroglyph
- two chevronels reversed
- elk
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- indeterminable tincture
- 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.
