Bodin
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Bodin is a parish and former municipality in Nordland
Nordland
is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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History

Bodin (until 1896 named Bodø herred) was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). Some smaller parts of the municipality were transferred to the town of Bodø
Bodø
is a city and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten region.The city of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Bodin was merged with Bodø on 1 January 1968. Skjerstad was merged with Bodø on 1 January 2005...

 January 1, 1901 and July 1, 1938. The majority of the municipality Kjerringøy
Kjerringøy
Kjerringøy is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village Kjerringøy.It was created when Nordfold-Kjerringøy was split into Kjerringøy and Nordfold on 1 January 1906. At that time Kjerringøy had a population of 857.On 1 January 1964 Kjerringøy was...

, as well as a small part of Sørfold
Sørfold
Sørfold is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. The old municipality of Folden was divided into Sørfold and Nordfold-Kjerringøy on 1 January 1887.-General...

, were merged into Bodin January 1, 1964. Bodin ceased to exist as a separate entity when it was merged into Bodø city January 1, 1968. At that point Bodin had a population of 13 323, Bodø had 14,252.

The name

Until 1896 the name of the municipality was Bodø herred 'the rural district/herred of Bodø
Bodø
is a city and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten region.The city of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Bodin was merged with Bodø on 1 January 1968. Skjerstad was merged with Bodø on 1 January 2005...

'. The town of Bodø is named after the old farm Bodøgård 'the farm/gård of Bodø'. The Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 form of the farm's name was Boðin (*Boðvin), and the municipality (originally the parish) was named after it because the first church was built on its ground. The meaning of the first element is, maybe, boði m 'skerry' - the last element is vin 'meadow, pasture'. The old Norse form was revived in 1896 as the name of the rural municipality.

Notable residents

  • Adelsteen Normann
    Adelsteen Normann
    Adelsteen Normann was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway. Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted The Scream...

     (1848-1918) painter
  • Reidar Carlsen
    Reidar Carlsen
    Reidar Carlsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Reidar Carlsen was born in Bodin in Nordland county, Norway. He studied at the National School of Forestry in the community of Steinkjer ....

     (1908- 1987), politician with Norwegian Labor party.

Bodin Church

Bodin Church (Bodin kirke) was built around 1240 and was extended in 1785 with a transept
Transept
For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture...

. In 1894, the entire section of the medieval church was torn down and rebuilt in the same style. The church has a stone altar from the 1300s and some wooden sculptures from the late 1400s - early 1500s. The church is characterized today by the interior from 1600 - and 1700s. The altarpiece is from 1670, the pulpit from the 1600s with paintings from 1754 by Gottfried Ezechiel. The chandeliers date from 1760s.
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