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![[Flag of Stockholm]](../images/s/se-01-80.gif)
by Erik Göthe
The flag is a banner of the arms;
arms dating from 1376, formally granted on 19 January 1934.
See also:
The man in the Stockholm arms should be St. Erik (patron saint of Sweden) but
when the city wanted to standardize the arms in the 1930's, the artist used a statue
in an old church as a model, a statue that later on has been identified as St. Olof
(patron saint of Norway - though very appreciated in Sweden too in the catholic
era).
Elias Granqvist, 3 October 2000