Bøverfjorden
(unofficial spellings:
''Bæverfjord'' or ''Bøverfjord'') is a village in
Surnadal Municipality
is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Skei. Other villages in Surnadal include Bøverfjorden, Glærem, Moen, Stangvik, Surnadalsøra, Sylte, T ...
in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. It lies on the shore of
Hamnesfjord along
County Road 65 where the
Bøvra River empties into the fjord. The village of
Ã…sskard
Åsskard is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located in the western part of the municipality, at the innermost part of the Åsskardfjorden which is a branch off the main Trongfjorden. The vi ...
lies about to the west the villages of
Surnadalsøra
Surnadalsøra is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Surnadalsfjorden, near the mouth of the river Surna (Norway), Surna. It is located just southwest of the villages of Sylte, Su ...
and
Skei lie about to the southeast.
Name
Locally, the name of the village is pronounced ''Bøffjorn''.
The name is derived from
Old Norse
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
word which means 'beaver fjord'
with substitution of the Norse first element by the
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...
word ''bever''.
References
External links
Bøverfjorden at Norgeskart
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Surnadal
Villages in Møre og Romsdal