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image by Tomislav Šipek, 03 February 2016
Approved on 19 February 1982.
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Sveio municipality is situated in Hordaland county.
The arms and flag of Sveio are based on the arms of a local family dating back as far as 1591. In more recent years, descendants of these families have taken up these arms, a cloven lily with a six-pointed star in the middle. The municipality chose the cloven lily only. The heraldist Kolbjørn Ekkje aided in the adoption of this motive, and he was also responsible for making the design (see [ekk82]). Official approval was granted 19 February 1982. The proportions are set to 5:7 by municipal regulations.
Jan Oskar Engene, 29 June 2002
Source: The text and image are based on research Engene did for an article published in the German vexillological journal Der Flaggenkurier, No. 2, 1996 [joe96]. Consult this article for detailed references to sources.
Here is flag and coat of arms of Sveio.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1982-02-19-422?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 03 February 2016
![[COA of Sveio]](../images/n/no)12-16.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 03 February 2016
Official blazon in Norwegian: "På raud grunn ei kløyvd kvit lilje."
Blazoned in English: "Gules a fleur de lis cloven argent."
English blazon by Željko Heimer, 5 August 2002
Blazon: På raud grunn ei kløyvd sølv lilje.
In English: Gules a flue-de-lys cleft or.
Apprvoed by the royal resolution 19 Feburary 1982 after a drawing by Kolbjørn
Ekkje. [c2j87]
The design was inspired by the arms of the family of Jon Gauteson from Sveio,
who lived around 1500. His sons Mats and Erik were granted Norwegian nobility by
Christin IV in 1591. They used a cleft fleur-de-lis with a mullet inbetween in
the chief. The design went into disuse eventually, but as [c2j87]
recorded, the Erik's successors in modern age took of using it again. Therefore
the municipality took a different design, removing the star.
Željko Heimer, 06 February 2016
"Gules a fleur-de-lys cleft argent"? (And here I was wondering how the cleft
could have its own colour.)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 06 February 2016
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