Coat of arms of Orust
Orust’s arms show three silver ling, each holding a gold fishing hook, on a blue wavy field, surrounded by a gold oak wreath.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en genom vågskura bildad stam av silver, tre stolpvis ställda långor av silver hållande i munnen tre metkrokar av guld och omgivna av en ekkrans 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
- 29 June 1984: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s graphic profile describes three upright ling, each with a fishing hook in its mouth, surrounded by an oak wreath.
Source: Orust kommun: Grafisk profil
Background and the source’s interpretation
Orust Municipality says the arms draw on a seal motif used in 1664. The municipal council adopted the arms in 1983 and the Swedish Patent and Registration Office registered them in 1984.
Source: Orust kommun: Grafisk profil
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
- ling
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Azure
- oak wreath
- base wavy
- fishhook
- three
- 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.
