Å, Meldal

Å, Meldal
Å
—  Village  —
Å is located in Sør-Trøndelag
Å
Location in Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 62°59′07″N 09°44′17″E / 62.98528°N 9.73806°E / 62.98528; 9.73806Coordinates: 62°59′07″N 09°44′17″E / 62.98528°N 9.73806°E / 62.98528; 9.73806
Country Norway
Region Trøndelag
County Sør-Trøndelag
District Orkdalen
Municipality Meldal
Elevation[1] 167 m (548 ft)
Time zone CET (UTC+01:00)
 – Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code 7335 Jerpstad

Å is a village in the municipality of Meldal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is the southernmost of the four urban areas in the municipality: Meldal, Løkken Verk, Storås, and Å. It lies along the Orkla River, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the border with the municipality of Rennebu.[2]

Å, has the postal address 7335 Jerpstad, to distinguish it from other places named Å. Agriculture is one of the village's most important industries. A person named Jo Aa, who died in the 1990s, lived in the village of Å, and they had the shortest name in Norway.

Name

The village (originally a farm) is first mentioned around 1435 "af Aam" (dative plural). The name is from the Old Norse Ár, the plural of á, meaning "(small) river". The name refers to the fact that the farm is lying between two rivers: the Orkla River and Reisa River. Until 1917, Å was spelled Aa.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Å" (in Norwegian). yr.no. http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/S%C3%B8r-Tr%C3%B8ndelag/Meldal/%C3%85/. Retrieved 2011-01-28. 
  2. ^ Store norske leksikon. "Å – Meldal" (in Norwegian). http://www.snl.no/%C3%85/Meldal. Retrieved 2011-02-01. 
  3. ^ Rygh, Oluf (1901) (in Norwegian). Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (14 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 157. http://books.google.com/books?id=AGxBAAAAIAAJ. 



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