Bøverfjorden

Bøverfjorden
Bæverfjord, Bøverfjord
Village
Bøverfjorden
Bøverfjorden

Location in Møre og Romsdal

Coordinates: 63°1′29″N 8°35′33″E / 63.02472°N 8.59250°E / 63.02472; 8.59250Coordinates: 63°1′29″N 8°35′33″E / 63.02472°N 8.59250°E / 63.02472; 8.59250
Country Norway
Region Western Norway
County Møre og Romsdal
District Nordmøre
Municipality Surnadal
Elevation[1] 6 m (20 ft)
Time zone CET (UTC+01:00)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code 6644 Bæverfjord

Bøverfjorden (sometimes Bæverfjord[1][2] or Bøverfjord[1][3]) is a village in the municipality of Surnadal 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.[4]

Name

Locally, the name of the village is pronounced Bøffjorn.[5] The name is derived from Old Norse Bifrarfjǫrðr 'beaver fjord'[6] with substitution of the Norse first element by Low German bever.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bøverfjorden, Surnadal (Møre og Romsdal)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Store norske leksikon: Surnadal.
  3. ↑ Möbius, Michael, & Aaron Möbius. 2014. Stefan Loose Reiseführer Norwegen. Ostfildern: Dumont Reiseverlag, p. 628.
  4. ↑ Norgeskart: Bøverfjorden.
  5. 1 2 Nordland, Ingvil. 2009. Normering av stedsnavn i skjæringspunktet mellom vedtaksorgan og grunneier. Master's thesis. Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, p. 99.
  6. ↑ Helland, Amund. 1911. Norges land og folk topografisk-statistisk beskrevet. Topografisk-historisk beskrivelse over Romsdals amt. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Company, p. 57.
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