Coat of arms of Ljusdal
In Ljusdal Municipality’s 1972 blazon, a gold erased goat’s head is set on black; its horns, tongue and teeth are red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I svart fält ett avslitet röd bockhuvud av guld med röda hornen med röd tunga med tänder.
The automatically assembled Heraldica wording is incorrect: it gives the goat’s head the wrong colour and conflates the earlier market-town arms’ bordure with the current arms. The account below follows Ljusdal Municipality’s description of the current arms.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 20 November 1958: Unofficially in use as of
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s published blazon of the current arms
Ljusdal Municipality publishes this description of the current arms: a gold erased goat’s head with red horns, tongue and teeth on a black field. This 1972 blazon is kept distinct from the earlier 1958 version used by Ljusdal market town.
From seal to current municipal arms
The municipality says the goat’s head was adopted for the arms of Ljusdal market town in 1958, based on the seal of Ljusdal parish from 1638. The current arms were adopted after the municipal merger on 30 June 1972. The municipality describes the overall motif as a heraldic abbreviation of the arms of Hälsingland.
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
- Sable
- goatbuck's head
- 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.
