Finsland

Finsland
Finsland; Finnsland
	Village
	View of the village church (c. 1900)
	Finsland Location of the village Finsland Finsland (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°19′06″N 07°35′33″E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Kristiansand
Municipality	Songdalen
Elevation [1]	263 m (863 ft)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code	4646 Finsland

Finsland or Finnsland is a village in Songdalen municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The village is located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Nodeland and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southeast of the village of Bjelland. The village is very small and it is located in a very rural area, but it is the site of Finsland Church, the main church for the northern half of Songdalen municipality. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Finsland which existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named Finsland. The name comes from the old "Finsland" farm which is situated by the river Finnsåna, which flows into the Mandalselva. There are also farms nearby called Finsdal and Finsådal. The first element is the word finne means "wilderness" or "remote". The second element land is the same as the word for "land".[2][3]

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References

"Finsland, Songdalen (Vest-Agder)". yr.no. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
Store norske leksikon. "Finsland" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-04.
Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 118.

External links

Weather information for Finsland (in Norwegian)

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[1] "Finsland, Songdalen (Vest-Agder)". yr.no. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[snl-2] Store norske leksikon. "Finsland" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[3] Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 118.