Bjørn is a village in

Dønna Municipality Dønna is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre of the island municipality is the village of Solfjellsjøen. Other villages include Bjørn, Dønnes, Hestad, Sandåker, ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, ...

county,

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. The village is located on the east coast of the island of Dønna, about northeast of the village of Hestad. The village has a regular ferry connection to the nearby island of Lukta and to the mainland town of

Sandnessjøen Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s and it received town status in 1999. Sandnessjøen is located o ...

. The village is the junction of the Norwegian County Road 828 and Norwegian County Road 809.

History

In 1754, a royal decree was made to grant Bjørn permission to hold an annual market, called the . It was considered the country's second largest market after the Grundset market at

Elverum is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum. Other settlements in the municipality include Heradsbygd, Sørskog ...

. In the 1870s, there were up to 3,000 visitors in boats and about 160 buildings in use as shops during the market. The markets were held as late as the early 1900s. The tradition has been taken up again from 1981 with a market every two years.

References

Dønna Villages in Nordland {{Nordland-geo-stub