The former coat of arms displayed three crowns to represent the Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Now, the crowns have been replaced by a polar bear and ram to represent Greenland and ...

the personal flagship of King Hans of Denmark and Norway (1455-1513), sank off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden, in 1495 while the king was on shore attending a political summit in Kalmar, where he ...

They later came to symbolise the Kalmar Union (1397-1523), which comprised of the same area and had one monarch. When Sweden ended the union in 1523, their king and Denmark’s claimed the right to the ...