Bjelland og Grindum

Bjelland og Grindum (or sometimes Bjelland og Grindheim) is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Bjelland where Bjelland Church is located. The 294-square-kilometre (114 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1902. It was located in the Mandalen valley in the northern parts of the present-day municipalities of Lyngdal and Lindesnes in what is now Agder county.[2]

Bjelland og Grindum herred
Former municipality
Official logo of Bjelland og Grindum herred
Vest-Agder within
Norway
Bjelland og Grindum within Vest-Agder
Bjelland og Grindum within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°26′24″N 07°25′02″E
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictSørlandet
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1902
 • Succeeded byBjelland and Grindheim municipalities
Administrative centreBjelland
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total294 km2 (114 sq mi)
Population
 (1902)
 • Total1,816
 • Density6.2/km2 (16/sq mi)
DemonymsBjelldøl
Grinddøl[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1024
Data from Statistics Norway

History

The old (large) parish of Bjelland was divided on 1 January 1838 into two municipalities: Aaseral in the north and Bjelland og Grindum in the south (see formannskapsdistrikt law). Bjelland og Grindum had a population of 1,662 in 1835, just before the split.[3] On 1 January 1902, the municipality of Bjelland og Grindum was dissolved and its land was split into two new municipalities: Bjelland (population: 907) and Grindheim (population: 909). These municipalities later became parts of Audnedal and Marnardal.[4]

Name

The old parishes of Bjelland and Grindum were merged in 1838 and the new, resulting municipality was given the compound name Bjelland og Grindum, literally meaning "Bjelland and Grindum".

The parish of Bjelland is named after the old Bjelland farm (Old Norse: Bjárland) since the first Bjelland Church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the word bœr which means "farm" or "farmstead". The last element is land which means "land" or "district".[5]

The parish of Grindum is named after the old Grindum farm (Old Norse: Grindeimr) since the first Grindheim Church was built there. The first element is grind which means "gate" or "fence". The last element is heimr which means "home" or "abode".[6][7]

See also

References
  1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. Store norske leksikon. "Bjelland og Grindheim" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. Registreringssentral for historiske data. "Hjemmehørende folkemengde Vest-Agder 1801-1960" (in Norwegian). University of Tromsø. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2006.
  4. Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.
  5. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 127.
  6. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 122.
  7. Rygh, Oluf (1898). Norske gaardnavne: Forord og innledning (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 52–53.

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