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Hurdal

Hurdal is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants....
county

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, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the traditional region

Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
of Romerike

Romerike

Romerike is a Districts of Norway located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Fet, L?renskog, Nittedal, R?lingen, Skedsmo, S?rum and Aurskog-H?land in the southern end , and Ullensaker, Gjerdrum, Nannestad, Nes, Akershus, Eidsvoll and Hurdal in the northern end ....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hurdal.

Hurdal is located about north of Oslo

Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
, along the lake Hurdalsjøen

Hurdalsjøen

Hurdalsj?en is a lake in the municipalities of Hurdal, Eidsvoll and Nannestad in Akershus county, Norway....
. Fjellsjøkampen

Fjellsjøkampen

Fjellsj?kampen is a mountain in Hurdal, Akershus, Norway. It is the highest mountain in Akershus....
is the highest hill in Akershus. About 2 km north of the administrative centre, Hurdal, is the .

name (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....
: Urðardalr and Hurðardalr) is an old district name.

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Hurdal is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Districts of Norway

Romerike

Oslo

Hurdalsjøen

Hurdalsj?en is a lake in the municipalities of Hurdal, Eidsvoll and Nannestad in Akershus county, Norway....
. Fjellsjøkampen

Fjellsjøkampen

General information

Name

The name (Old Norse

Old Norse

Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take argument in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses ....
of an old river name (later called Gjøingelva which means "Gjøing river"), probably Urð which means "stony river" (from urð which means "scree

Scree

Scree, also called talus, is a term given to an accumulation of broken Rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders....
"). (The sideform Hurðardalr has an addition of a false /h

H is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in both British English and American English is aitch , though it is also pronounced haitch in some dialects ....
/.) The last element is dalr meaning "valley

Valley

In geology, a valley is a Depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge....
" or "dale". Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Hurdalen".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted in 1988. The arms are green with a yellow-colored cone

Conifer cone

A cone is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta that contains the plant sexuality structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds....
from a Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce is a species of spruce native to Europe. It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 35-55 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1-1.5 m....
tree (Abies picea).

History

The parish of Hurdalen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway 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 Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). The new municipality of Feiring

Feiring

Feiring is an area in the Eidsvoll municipality of Norway. It has around 1000 inhabitants. The name Feiring is etymologically linked to the Norwegian language word fager meaning 'beautiful' or 'pretty'....
was separated from Hurdal on 1 January 1870.

Notable residents

Tore Ruud Hofstad
Tore Ruud Hofstad

Tore Ruud Hofstad is a Norway Cross-country skiing skier who has competed since 1998. He has won six medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds , one silver , and one bronze ....
(born 1979) - cross country skier
Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, Alaska and the Upper Midwest....
Henning Stensrud
Henning Stensrud

Henning Stensrud is a Norway ski jumper, currently residing in Trondheim, Norway. He debuted on the Norwegian World Cup team in 1996, and his 4th place in Engelberg 1997 and Oberstdorf 1998 is his best result to this date....
(born 1977) - Ski jumper
Robert Sørlie
Robert Sørlie

Robert S?rlie , commonly "Sorlie" in English language, is a two time Iditarod champion Norway mushing and dogsled racing from Hurdal. Together with Kjetil Backen and his nephew, Bj?rnar Andersen, he forms "Team Norway", the most well-known Norwegian dog mushing team....
(born 1958) - dog sled racer
Dogsled racing

Dogsled racing, more accurately referred to as sled dog racing, is a winter List of dog sports involving the timed competition of teams of sleddogs that pull a dog sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners....
and winner of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2003 and 2005

External links

from Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....