Klevset is a village in

Heim Municipality Heim is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020 upon the merger of three other municipalities. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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. It lies on the shore of

Skålvik Fjord / or is an arm of the Vinje Fjord in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag County, Norway. It is located in the traditional Nordmøre district (it was part of Møre og Romsdal county prior to 2020). The fjord extends southwards to the village of ...

along County Road 350. The island of Bårsetøya lies just offshore in the fjord. A small boatyard, ''J.M. Kleivset Båtbyggeri'', formerly operated in Klevset. Among other vessels, it built three smacks for use by priests in the reconstruction of

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

after the Second World War. The settlement was attested as ''Klauset'' in the 16th century and ''Kleffßett'' in 1590 (as well as ''Kleffset'' in 1667 and ''Klefset'' in 1723). The name is probably derived from the

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 'cliff', referring to its location below a steep hill.

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Klevset at Norgeskart
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