File talk:Blason Eric VII de Poméranie (1382-1459) Roi de Suède, de Danemark et de Norvège.svg

This coat of arms is incorrect in several details and ought to be replaced by a better version. The inescutcheon with the arms of Norway shows the lion bearing an axe with a long curved handle. In mediaeval versions of the Norwegian arms, the axe of St. Olav, added by king Erik Magnusson around 1280, always had a short, straight handle. The handle was gradually extended during the late middle ages. In preserved union seals of Eric of Pomerania, it is still straight an fairly short. The correct blazon of the arms sinister chief, representing either Sweden or the Kalmar Union, is: "Azure, with three coronets Or, ordered two above one." Never as in this file one above two. The cross quartering the escutcheon is depicted and described as "The Dannebrog cross", a silver cross fimbriated in red, derived from the Danish flag. That cross is a feature of later arms of Denmark-Norway, but was not introduced in the Kalmar union arms, because it would have been interpreted as a purely Danish symbol, and therefore offensive to Swedes and Norwegians. No early versions show fimbriation, only a solid four-armed cross. The most likely tincture of the cross was red (gules), as in the Kalmar union flag. That theory is convincingly argued by Nils G. Bartholdy in the Scandinavian "Heraldisk tidsskrift", volume 8, no. 76, October 1997, pages 233-257. I have uploaded a modified png version, File:Erik av Pommern 2000px.png. It is currently used in several articles on the Kalmar union. I would appreciate a correct svg version as well, to replace the present incorrect "Blason Eric VII". Roede (talk) 12:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)