Åland coat of arms

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Åland coat of arms

The Åland coat of arms shows a golden and tongued red deer with antlers on a blue background. The coat of arms has a flat pearl crown at the top , which symbolizes an old Swedish crown .

Åland got its coat of arms before the funeral of the Swedish King Gustav I. Wasa in 1560.

The original design featured two deer in a field with nine white roses . However, Åland was never granted this coat of arms, only the coat of arms with a stag .

In the 1940s the Swedish Heraldic Office (Riksheraldikerämbetet) discovered that a gross mistake had been made in the design of the coat of arms 400 years ago. The Åland Islands' coat of arms was originally intended for Öland . Öland, an island off the coast of Småland , was also affected by this error. Many deer lived on Öland, making it a royal hunting ground, but it had no historical connection to the nine Finnish roses that adorn the coat of arms there .

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In blue a running golden stag with golden antlers. A flat pearl crown rests on the coat of arms.

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