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Sogndal, Vestland (Norway)

The Flag
Coat of Arms
Symbols before 2020

See also:

The Flag

Sogndal Municipality was created on 1 January 2020 by merging the old Sogndal Municipality with Leikanger Municipality and Balestrand Municipality.

The result of that union are new symbols for the new Sogndal Municipality, but I don't know how that affects the flag.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 December 2024

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 December 2024

Symbols before 2020

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 February 2017

Here is flag and coat of arms of Sogndal. Administrative center is Sogndalsfjøra.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1984-12-14-2086?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 20 January 2016

image by Tomislav Šipek, 20 January 2016

Blazon: På blå grunn ein oppveksande gull skipsstamn. In English Azure a ship's stern or issuant.
Approved by the royal resolution of 14 February 1984 after a drawing by the artist Inge Rotevatn from Nordfjordeid.
Sources: [c2j87] and http://www.sogndal.kommune.no/kommunevaapen.182086.nn.html
The abovementioned municipal site explains that the symbol represent a Viking ship. The design is linked with the naval battle of Fimreite in the Sogndal fjord in 1184, fought between King Magnus and King Sverre, who came there with his ships and eventually won.
Željko Heimer, 26 January 2016

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