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Jølster, Vestland (Norway)

Sogn og Fjordane

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 February 2017

The Flag
Coat of Arms

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The Flag

Here is flag and coat of arms of Jølster. Administrative center is Skei.
Source: https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1983-07-22-1289?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 27 January 2016

Sunnfjord Municipality was created on 1 January 2020 by the merger of Førde Municipality, Gaular Municipality, Jølster Municipality and Naustdal Municipality.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 December 2024

Coat of Arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 January 2016

Blazon: På raud grunn ein gull liljekross. In English: Gules a cross fluery or.
Approved by the royal resolution of 22 July 1983 after a drawing by Elsa Norunn Håheim Nydal after a proposal by Magnus Hardeland. [c2j87]
The arms are loosly inspired by the arms of Audun Hugleiksson from Hegranes in Jølster, who died in 1302, an important figure in Norwegian politics of the period. In his seals he used a shield with a rose, surrounded with a double tressure fleury-counterfleury. The tressure was a grant from the Scottish king. His seal shows him as a rider holding a shield with his arms, as on a 1295 treaty he arranged between Norway and France, as an emissary there. The lesser seal, on the reverse, shows only the shield of the arms. Artefacts from his castle have fleury iron-cast ornaments that provided a further idea on adopting the municipal arms of this form.
Željko Heimer, 31 January 2016