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The coat of arms of Norway is the arms of dominion of King Harald V of Norway, and as such represents both the monarch and the kingdom (nation and the state). It depicts a standing golden lion on a red background, bearing a golden crown and axe with silver blade (blazoned Gules, a lion rampant Or, crowned Or, holding an axe Or with a blade argent).
There are today comparatively few personal coats of arms in Norway, especially in active use, [4] and many of them are of foreign origin. Many Norwegian family arms have been created and established by private individuals and needed no grant or confirmation by any official authorities. Not many Norwegian family arms are those of former noble ...
The coat of arms of Norway is one of the oldest in Europe and serves both as the coat of arms of the nation and of the Royal House. This is in keeping with its origin as the coat of arms of the kings of Norway during the Middle Ages. [14] Håkon the Old (1217–1263) used a shield with a lion. The earliest preserved reference to the colour of ...
This is an incomplete list of Norwegian coats of arms. Today most municipalities and all counties have their own coats of arms. Many Norwegian military units and other public agencies and some private families have coats of arms. For more general information see the page about Norwegian heraldry.
The family owned land in Norway, as well as on the Faroe Islands and Shetland (which at the time was a Norwegian overseas possession). The male line of the family died out in the late 15th century. [2] Coat of arms of the Norwegian noble family Smør. based on drawing by Hallvard Trætteberg (1898-1987)
Pages in category "Norwegian coats of arms" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Armorial of Norway; Coat of arms of Norway; A.
The family's arms are a silver shield depicting two blue beams (Norwegian: bjelke). The coat of arms appears, among other places, in family members' wax seals, in heraldic artworks at Austrått Fortress, and in a portrait of Ove Bjelke.
Coat of arms of Captain Niels Mechlenburg (right). Heraldic artwork from 1763 in the Sykkylven Church. Mecklenburg, Mechlenborg, and Mikkelborg is a patrician and historically a prominent family living in Denmark and Norway. They descend from Flensburg in today's Germany.