Fluberg is a village in Søndre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located near the north end of the Randsfjorden, about north of the village of Hov and about to the southeast of the village of Dokka. The village was the

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of the old Fluberg Municipality which existed from 1914 until 1962.

Fluberg Church

Fluberg Church (''Fluberg Kirke'') is the oldest existing church in Søndre Land Municipality. The present church replaced a previous stave church on the same site. This was the main church for both Nordre Land and Søndre Land until 1866. The present church was built of timber in 1703. The pulpit from 1702 was carved by Lars Jenssen Borg (d. 1710). The

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was made by his son, Nicolai Larsen Borg (1673-1764) and is from 1721. In 1751, Lars Pinnerud (1700–1762) carved a new altar for the church. The following year it was painted by Eggert Munch (ca. 1685-1764).

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Fluberg farm ( non, Fluguberg), since the first Fluberg Church was built there. The first element seems to be the genitive case of an old river name ''Fluga'', and the last element is ''berg'' which means "mountain". The (hypothetical) river name ''Fluga'' could be derived from the word ''fluga'' which means "

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" (as in 'the river makes sounds like a fly'), or from the word ''flug'' which means "steep side of a mountain".

Notable residents

* Ola Viker (1897–1972), a Norwegian novelist and lawyer *

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, a Norwegian author of science fiction and fantasy literature * Johan Peter Weisse (1832–1886), a Norwegian philologist

References

Søndre Land Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub