Coat of arms of Mora
Mora’s arms show the archangel Michael treading on a gold dragon on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en sankt Mikael av guld som trampar en drake 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
- 6 December 1946: Royal confirmation on
- 8 May 1959: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
Mora Municipality says the motif has been in the arms since 1946 and that an earlier seal image is known from seventeenth-century documents.
Source: Mora kommun: Kommunvapnet
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality describes Michael and the dragon as the struggle between good and evil. A link to a church dedicated to Michael is presented as a theory; the source also notes possible confusion with Saint Olaf.
Source: Mora kommun: Kommunvapnet
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
- Michael
- dragon
- field
- Or
- Gules
- 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.
