Coat of arms of Norrköping
Norrköping’s arms show Saint Olaf seated on a throne with an axe and an orb.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en sankt Olof klädd blå med blå gloria sittande på en tron röd krönt av guld hållande i dexter hand en blå yxa och hållande i sinister hand ett blått riksäpple.
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
- (1367): Used as a seal as of
- 22 May 1936: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile reserves the arms for formal and ceremonial occasions. A municipal brochure depicts Olaf seated on a throne, dressed in blue and wearing a gold crown, holding an axe and an orb.
Source: Norrköpings kommun: Välkommen till Rådhuset, kommunfullmäktige
Background in the municipal sources
Norrköping’s page limits the arms to ceremonial use. We do not add a historical interpretation of Olaf that the municipality’s use guidance does not provide.
Source: Norrköpings kommun: Grafisk profil, andra grafiska element
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
- Azure
- indeterminable tincture
- orb
- axe
- saint Olav
- 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.
