Great Shield of Arms of Sweden

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Blazon

    Quarterly 1st azure three crowns or shown higher and
 to the dexter, 2nd bendy wavy sinister argent and
 azure a lion or crowned of the same tongued and armed
 gules shown higher and to the sinister, 3rd bendy
 wavy sinister argent and azure a lion or crowned of
 the same tongued and armed gules, 4th azure three
 crowns or, over all quarters a fillet cross or.

An escutcheon tierced in bend gules argent and azure
 a garb or shown higher (which is for Vasa), impaled
 with azure a bridge of three arches argent much shown
 larger and very much lowered, a base wavy bary wavy
 argent and azure, a natural eagle or shown larger
 and much higher, a lightning bolt or fesswise, a comet
 or fesswise in chief shown much smaller (which is
 for Bernadotte).

(Previously entry no. 7310)

With Tags: Sweden,Swedish,Vasa,Bernadotte

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Notes

Some licence taken with the arms of the House of Bernadotte for simplicity's sake: a simple bridge with three arches instead of a bridge with two towers, a lightning bolt fesswise because I couldn't get the thunderbolt to be displayed fesswise, a comet instead of the Great Dipper, because I couldn't be bothered.

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