Vapenflagga för Skåne län
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The National Archives of Sweden, as well as the Swedish State in general recommends the use of banners of arms, which stand in contrast to certain incorrect types of flags, such as ones displaying the coat of arms as an escutcheon upon a bland background. Such flags, as well as flags with logos, are inappropriate from various standpoints, including but not limited to heraldic, graphical, vexillological, and traditionalistic ones. But despite the county administrative boards being government agencies themselves, there exists those who use some incorrect flag type instead of the correct banner of arms.
In Sweden, county arms and their corresponding flags represent not only county administrative boards, but also counties as geographies. The heraldically correct county flag may be used by members of the general public as an expression of identity, as long as proper procedures and customs are followed.
The griffin as a symbol of Scania has a long history. As the most important province that was ceded to Sweden as a result of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, Scania naturally needed to be represented with armorial bearings at the funeral of Charles X Gustav of Sweden in 1660, and it was in preparation for this ceremony that the provincial arms were created. It was councillor Gustav Bonde that suggested using the griffin's head from the arms of Scania's biggest city Malmö in the new provincial arms; the tincture of the field was however changed between the two, from silver to gold. Malmö's arms themselves are even older. They were granted in 1437 through letters patent issued by Eric of Pomerania, and it is from his own Pomeranian ducal arms that the Malmöite and Scanian griffin originates.
Scania County was created in 1997. The previous counties of Malmöhus and Kristianstad both bore griffin's heads in their respective arms. This, together with the fact that the newly established county is named after the historical province with (almost exactly) the same borders, made the griffin's head a logical choice of charge in the new county arms. But unlike other counties sharing names with provinces with similar boundaries, the arms of Scania County are not exactly the same as those of the province of Scania: the county actually uses inverted tinctures from that of the province.
The arms of Scania County were registered with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office on the 5th of September 1997, with the following blazon (directly translated): "In a red field an erased griffin's head, crowned with an open crown, all of gold." This version was painted by Vladimir A. Sagerlund when he was the heraldic artist at the National Archives of Sweden.This tag does not indicate the copyright status or the source of the attached work. A normal copyright tag and a source are still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
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