Ardal, Sogn og Fjordane (Norway)

Årdal

Last modified: 2021-08-25 by christopher oehler
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 February 2017

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms

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• Sogn og Fjordane
• Norwegian municipal flags
• Norway

Here is flag and coat of arms of former municipality of Årdal. Årdal was merged into Hjelmeland in 1965.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1957-08-09-4?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 10 February 2016

Årdal is a current municipality in Sogn og Fjordane.
Željko Heimer, 21 February 2016

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 10 February 2016

Blazon: på raud botn ein gull trillingstreng med ormeband-skurd.
In English: Gules three barrulets dancetty or.
Apprvoed by the crown-prince-regent's resolution of 9 August 1957 after a drawing by Hallvar Trætteberg, after a previous idea by Magnus Hardeland. [c2j87]
Årdal is a heavy industry and power plant region and the triple zigzag line symbolizes the electrical power. The "ormeband-skrud" is more or less a "worm-ribbon ornament" - as the dragons and lyndworms were depicted ornamented with in the ancient Norwegian wooden churches.
Željko Heimer, 21 February 2016