Bøverfjorden
Bøverfjorden
Bæverfjord, Bøverfjord | |
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Village | |
Bøverfjorden Bøverfjorden | |
| Coordinates: 63°1′29″N 8°35′33″E / 63.02472°N 8.59250°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Western Norway |
| County | Møre og Romsdal |
| District | Nordmøre |
| Municipality | Surnadal Municipality |
| Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Post Code | 6644 Bæverfjord |
Bøverfjorden[2] (unofficial spellings:[2] Bæverfjord[3] or Bøverfjord[4]) is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies on the shore of Hamnesfjord along County Road 65 where the Bøvra River empties into the fjord.[5] The village of Åsskard lies about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the west the villages of Surnadalsøra and Skei lie about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the southeast.
Name
Locally, the name of the village is pronounced Bøffjorn.[6] The name is derived from Old Norse word Bifrarfjǫrðr which means 'beaver fjord'[7] with substitution of the Norse first element by the Low German word bever.[6]
References
- ^ "Bøverfjorden, Surnadal (Møre og Romsdal)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Informasjon om stadnamn". Norgeskart (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (29 May 2024). "Surnadal". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Möbius, Michael; Möbius, Aaron (2014). Stefan Loose Reiseführer Norwegen (in German). Ostfildern: Dumont Reiseverlag. p. 628.
- ^ "Bøverfjorden" (in Norwegian). Norgeskart.
- ^ a b Nordland, Ingvil (2009). Normering av stedsnavn i skjæringspunktet mellom vedtaksorgan og grunneier. Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (Masters thesis) (in Norwegian). Oslo: University of Oslo. p. 99.
- ^ Helland, Amund (1911). Norges land og folk topografisk-statistisk beskrevet. Topografisk-historisk beskrivelse over Romsdals amt (in Norwegian). Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 57.
External links
- Bøverfjorden at Norgeskart (in Norwegian)