Coat of arms of Norsjö
Norsjö’s arms are divided by a wave line into gold and green, with a green spruce and a gold ear of grain.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Sköld genom en vågskura kluven i guld och grön, i första fältet en grön gran, i andra fältet ett kornax 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 distinguishes registry information from municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 10 July 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 31 December 1970: Unofficial due to municipal reform on
- 27 February 1987: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
Norsjö Municipality’s graphic manual describes the shield as divided by a wave line into gold and green. A green spruce stands in the gold field and a gold ear of grain in the green field.
Background in local sources
According to the municipality’s graphic manual, the spruce and grain refer to forestry and agriculture, while the wave line symbolises the municipality’s waterways. This is the municipality’s explicit explanation, not an inference from the image alone.
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
- per pale
- field
- Or
- Vert
- ear of barley
- spruce
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.
