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Kråkstad is a village and former municipality in Ski
Ski, Norway

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Ski....
 municipality, 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, Norway.

The parish of Kraakstad was established as a municipality January 1, 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....
). Ski
Ski, Norway

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Ski....
 was separated from Kråkstad July 1, 1931 - and the rest of Kråkstad was merged with Ski January 1, 1964.

The village has 839 inhabitants (2006), and a train station on Indre Østfoldbanen
Indre Østfoldbanen

The Eastern ?stfold Line is a railway line which runs between Ski, Norway and Sarpsborg. It is a branch line, to the main ?stfold Line. The Eastern ?stfold Line runs east of the main line, serving communities such as Mysen, Askim and Rakkestad....
. The Norwegian footballer Martin Andresen
Martin Andresen

Martin Andresen is a Norway football midfielder....
 grew up in this village.

This is also the town in which the Swedish black metal singer Dead
Dead (musician)

Per Yngve Ohlin , better known by his stage name Dead, was a Sweden black metal vocalist best known for his work with Early Norwegian black metal scene band Mayhem ....
 committed suicide on April 8th, 1991.

There are some remains of an old hillfort in the forest above Vientjern (a small lake), a few kilometers outside Kråkstad.

Sports
Kråkstad has its own football club.






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Kråkstad is a village and former municipality in Ski
Ski, Norway

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Ski....
 municipality, 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, Norway.

The parish of Kraakstad was established as a municipality January 1, 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....
). Ski
Ski, Norway

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Ski....
 was separated from Kråkstad July 1, 1931 - and the rest of Kråkstad was merged with Ski January 1, 1964.

The village has 839 inhabitants (2006), and a train station on Indre Østfoldbanen
Indre Østfoldbanen

The Eastern ?stfold Line is a railway line which runs between Ski, Norway and Sarpsborg. It is a branch line, to the main ?stfold Line. The Eastern ?stfold Line runs east of the main line, serving communities such as Mysen, Askim and Rakkestad....
. The Norwegian footballer Martin Andresen
Martin Andresen

Martin Andresen is a Norway football midfielder....
 grew up in this village.

This is also the town in which the Swedish black metal singer Dead
Dead (musician)

Per Yngve Ohlin , better known by his stage name Dead, was a Sweden black metal vocalist best known for his work with Early Norwegian black metal scene band Mayhem ....
 committed suicide on April 8th, 1991.

There are some remains of an old hillfort in the forest above Vientjern (a small lake), a few kilometers outside Kråkstad.

Sports


Kråkstad has its own football club. Having been relegated from 6th to 7th division in 2004, Kråkstad this year faces another relegation into the Norwegian 8th division. This is no big surprise as thei sold their only talent, Steffen Jensen to a slave caravan. This was a big media flash in 2004.

As mentioned above, the former Wimbledon-player and now S.K. Brann
S.K. Brann

Sportsklubben Brann is a Norway Football club, founded September 26 1908, from Bergen. Brann has been in the Norwegian Premier League since 1987 and play their home matches at Brann Stadion where they had a record-breaking 17,310 in average attendance in the Norwegian Premier League 2007....
 Bergen and National team-player Martin Andresen
Martin Andresen

Martin Andresen is a Norway football midfielder....
 has a past in Kråkstad F.K.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm Kråkstad (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....
 Krákustaðir), since the first church was built there. The first element is probably an old rivername (*Kráka), the last element is staðir 'homestead, farm'. The meaning of the (hypothetical) rivername is 'crow-river' (the river sounding like a crow'?).

Until 1921 the name was written Kraakstad.