Coat of arms of Malung-Sälen
Malung-Sälen’s arms show a gold horseshoe with a gold claw hammer set horizontally above it, both on blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en hästsko av guld varöver en bjälkvis ställd hammare 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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 13 June 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 29 August 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality says an earlier seal is known from 1631, the arms were established in 1947 and were carried over to the present municipality in the merger.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality links the motifs with ironworking and horseshoe making in Västerdalarna. This is reported as the municipality’s interpretation, not part of the blazon.
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
- Azure
- hammer
- unpartitioned
- horseshoe
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.
