Editing Öckerö Municipality (section)

==History==
During the [[Viking Age]] the islands of Öckerö belonged to the [[King of Norway|Norwegian kings]], and the part of the coast was known as ''Älvsyssel''. In the 13th century the King [[Hakon Hakonarson]] built himself a house on Öckerö, because he was often around there with his navy.

In 1658 or thereabout, the area became Swedish together with [[Bohuslän]].

In the middle of the 18th century, the [[fishing]] of [[herring]] blossomed into a full scaled industry, and the islands fishing communities flourished for some 50 years.

In the 1950s the [[coat of arms]] were designed. As the main industry has always been fishing, a boat and herring became symbols. The ten herrings correspond to the ten islands.

Ömål, also called öbo, is a Swedish [[Götamål dialect]] spoken on the islands of the Öckerö municipality. It has some features of the Gothenburg Swedish dialect (Göteborgska), but also features from English.