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Hell is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in Stjørdal
Stjørdal

is a Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Stj?rdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stj?rdal....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 with a population
Population

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 of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction
Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities....
 because of its name, since people like to take the train
Train

A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track to rail transport from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rail tracks, but might also be a monorail or magnetic levitation train guideway....
 there to get photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
ed in front of the station
Train station

|}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight may be loaded or unloaded....
 sign. The station sign reads "Gods-expedition", an old spelling of the Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
 word for "cargo
Cargo

Cargo refers to goods or produce transported, generally for Commerce gain, by Cargo ship, Cargo airline, Train#Freight trains, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal freight transport long-haul cargo transport....
 (goods) handling" (godsekspedisjon would be the current spelling).

The name Hell stems from the Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
 word hellir, which means "overhang", "cliff cave".






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Hell is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in Stjørdal
Stjørdal

is a Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Stj?rdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stj?rdal....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 with a population
Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
 of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction
Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities....
 because of its name, since people like to take the train
Train

A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track to rail transport from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rail tracks, but might also be a monorail or magnetic levitation train guideway....
 there to get photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
ed in front of the station
Train station

|}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight may be loaded or unloaded....
 sign. The station sign reads "Gods-expedition", an old spelling of the Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
 word for "cargo
Cargo

Cargo refers to goods or produce transported, generally for Commerce gain, by Cargo ship, Cargo airline, Train#Freight trains, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal freight transport long-haul cargo transport....
 (goods) handling" (godsekspedisjon would be the current spelling).

The name Hell stems from the Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
 word hellir, which means "overhang", "cliff cave". The Norwegian word hell can also mean "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel
Hel (being)

In Norse mythology, Hel is a being that presides over a realm of the Hel , where she receives a portion of the dead. Hel is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson....
 was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell
Hell

In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear Divinity history often depict Hell as endless ....
 is helvete. The Norwegian word for "God" is Gud.

Among English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
-speaking tourists, one of those popular Norwegian postcards depicted the station with a heavy frost on the ground. The visual joke was that the picture showed "Hell frozen over", though there was no caption to make the point. Temperatures in Hell can reach -20°C
Celsius

Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death....
 during winter.

The station
Train station

|}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight may be loaded or unloaded....
 itself, Hell Station
Hell Station

Hell Station is a railway station located at Hell, Norway in Stj?rdal, Norway, where the two important railways of Nordlandsbanen and Mer?kerbanen meet....
, is a railway junction where the rail line Nordlandsbanen
Nordlandsbanen

The Nordland Line is a railway line between Trondheim and Bod? in Norway. Running for approximately 729 km, it is the Rail transport in Norway's longest line, and the only one in Norway to cross the Arctic Circle....
 north to Bodø
Bodø

is a List of cities in Norway and a Municipalities of Norway in Nordland Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Salten Districts of Norway....
 branches off from Meråkerbanen
Meråkerbanen

The Mer?ker Line is a rail transport which runs from Hell, Norway, outside Stj?rdal, through the municipality of Mer?ker, in Norway, to Storlien, in Sweden....
 between Trondheim
Trondheim

is a city and Municipalities of Norway in S?r-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
 and Storlien
Storlien

Storlien is a village and ski resort in the ?re Municipality, in J?mtland, Sweden, a kilometer from the Swedish-Norwegian border.It is a popular resort for cross-country skiing and alpine skiing, mostly by Norwegian tourists....
 in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
.

A yearly blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 festival, the Hell Blues Festival, takes place in the area around Hell each year. The festival changed its name to Hell Music Festival in 2006 to open their doors for music other than blues. The Hell Music Festival in 2007 was not a complete success however. It failed due to poor ticket sales and weak advertising which left the future of the festival uncertain.

Mona Grudt
Mona Grudt

Mona Grudt Bittrick a green-eyed redhead, became the first Norwegian people to capture the Miss Universe title in 1990. Although she was not a favourite prior to the pageant, she became the clear favorite of the judges, winning the interview and swimsuit preliminaries....
, Miss Universe 1990
Miss Universe 1990

Miss Universe 1990, the 39th Miss Universe pageant was held at Century City, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 15, 1990....
, is from a small town near Hell. During the 1990 Miss Universe competition, she listed herself as "The beauty queen from Hell" as a publicity stunt
Publicity stunt

A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the mass media attention to the organizers or their cause. Publicity stunts can be professionally organized or set up by amateurs....
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