HURDAL

'Hurdal' is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway.
Hurdal was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Feiring separated from Hurdal January 1, 1870.
It is located about 70 km north of Oslo, along the lake "Hurdalsjøen". About 2 km north of the centre "Auto'n", there's a ski resort.

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The name

Coat-of-arms

The name

The name (Norse ''Urðardalr'' and ''Hurðardalr'') is an old district name. (The name of the church site is ''Gjøing''.) The first element is the genitive case of a disappered rivername (later called ''Gjøingelva'' 'Gjøing river'), probably ''
★ Urð'' 'stony river' (from ''urð'' f 'scree'). (The sideform ''Hurðardalr'' has an addition of a false /h/.) The last element is ''dalr'' m 'valley, dale'.
Until 1918 the name was written "Hurdalen".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1988). It shows a cone of spruce.