Tursaansydän

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Tursaansydän carved in a 12th-century church in Kruszwica, Poland.

In modern usage

Author Ilmari Kianto used the tursaansydän as his logo. Kianto had found a tursaansydän carved into his childhood home's granary's door in Suomussalmi.[4]

The Slavic Union used the tursaansydän in their logo, before the organization was banned in 2010.

The Finnish Alliance approved of the tursaansydän as their symbol in 1998.[5]

See also

References

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