Coat of arms of Munkedal
Munkedal’s arms show a silver quill crossed with a silver paper roll on blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en gåspenna av silver korslagd med en bokrulle av silver.
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
- 4 November 1983: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality says the scroll refers to the area’s paper mills, while the quill is linked to monks and Dragsmark Abbey.
Background in the municipal sources
Munkedal says the arms were adopted in 1980. Its account also connects the quill with an old estate in the Örekilsälven valley; this is a local interpretation.
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
- escroll
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- quill
- 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.
