Norwegian Heraldry Society

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Coat of arms of the Norwegian Heraldry Society.

Norwegian Heraldry Society (Norwegian: Norsk Heraldisk Forening, NHF) is a heraldry society located in Oslo, Norway, which was founded in 1969.[1]

The first chairman was Herman Leopoldus Løvenskiold,[1][2] and other founding members include C. S. Schilbred[3] and Jørgen Mathiesen.[4] The Norwegian Heraldry Society organizes lectures and publishes the members' magazine Våpenbrevet ("Letters Patent").[1] It co-operates extensively with the Societas Heraldica Scandinavica.[1]

In 2014, it co-organised the XXXI International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences.[5]

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