Icelandic Coat of Arms

The Icelandic Coat of Arms is a silver cross in a sky-blue field with a fiery red cross in the silver one. There are four shield bearers, Iceland's old guardian spirits mentioned in Heimskringla (A History of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241); head-on, from the viewer's point of view: a bull on the left of the shield, a giant to the right, a bird of prey on the top left and a dragon on the top right. The shield rests on a slab of basalt.