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Coat of arms of the Republic of Iceland Illustrated Dear Yair as you see, Iceland is not the country of Dan. This creatures prohibited the Danish king from the country. This arms was protecting Iceland from the Danish king Haraldur Gormsson (AD 958-987) so he could not take it. These creaturs seem to me, to have strong similarities to the creatures in the first chapter of the book of the prophet Hezekiel. |
An episode from Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241) lends the four guardian spirits to Iceland's coat of arms. Late in the tenth century, King Haraldur Gormsson of Denmark send an emissary to Iceland in the guise of whale, to avenge some insulting verse which Icelanders had composed about him. Trying to come east, a huge bird in the north, a bull in the west and a giant in the south, guardian spirits of the four quarters into which the ancient republic was divided. The emissary went home and told Haraldur that Iceland was not to be taken.
In 1944, when Iceland was once again proclaimed and independent republic, this symbolism was adapted by sculptor R?har?r J?sson into the present coat of arms, based on suggestion by Dr. Matth?s ?rdarson.
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