Alvdal

Alvdal kommune
Alvdal kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Innlandet within ; Norway
	Alvdal within Innlandet
	Coordinates: 62°4′18″N 10°30′27″E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Østerdalen
Administrative centre	Alvdal
Government
• Mayor (2019)	Mona Murud (Sp)
Area
• Total	943 km2 (364 sq mi)
• Land	919 km2 (355 sq mi)
Area rank	116 in Norway
Population (2018)
• Total	2,424
• Density	2.6/km2 (7/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	0.5%
Demonym(s)	Alvdøl[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3428
Official language form	Neutral[2]
Website	www.alvdal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Alvdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Alvdal.

Alvdal (along with the eastern part of Folldal municipality) was separated from the municipality of Tynset to become a municipality of its own in 1864. The western part of Folldal was transferred from Dovre (in the former Oppland county) to Alvdal (and Hedmark county) in 1884. Folldal was separated from the municipality of Alvdal in 1914.

The Rørosbane railway line passes through Alvdal.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was (øfri) Elfardalr (meaning "(upper) river valley"). The first element is the genitive case of elfr which means "river" (here the Glomma river) and the last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale".

Prior to 1918, the municipality was called Lille-Elvdalen ("the small Elvdalen") to distinguish it from Store Elvedalen ("the big Elvedalen") which is now called Stor-Elvdal.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 25 November 1988. The arms show the front ends of two silver skis on a blue background. They represent the history and importance of skiing in the area.[3]

(See also Skien and Trysil)

Geography

Alvdal is bordered by Tynset to the north, Rendalen to the east and south, Stor-Elvdal to the south, and Folldal to the west. The highest mountain in the municipality is Storsølnkletten at 1,827 metres (5,994 ft) tall.

Notable residents

Writer and humorist Kjell Aukrust was born in Alvdal. The Aukrustsenteret in Alvdal is dedicated to him.

Aukrust is most famous for creating the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa and its cast of idiosyncratic characters.

gollark: Do you have a neural interface?

gollark: It's a thing which lets things apply velocity to themselves.

gollark: As well as ender modems and such, so you can get full CC computation and GPS and movement.

gollark: See, you can put computers in minecarts, and then put kinetic augments on those.

gollark: If you're making OC drones, consider cartdrones™ instead?

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
"Kommunevåpenet" (in Norwegian). Alvdal kommune. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

External links

Media related to Alvdal at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Alvdal at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] "Kommunevåpenet" (in Norwegian). Alvdal kommune. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2008-12-20.