Leira is a village in

Indre Fosen Municipality Indre Fosen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Fosen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset. Other villages in Indre Fosen include Askjem, Dalbygda, ...

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 is located about north of the village of

Årnset Årnset or Rissa is the administrative centre of Indre Fosen Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the north shore of the lake Botn (Trøndelag), Botn about south of the village of Hasselvika and about north of the villag ...

, along the north shore of the lake Botn. It is about west of the lake Storvatnet.

Rissa Church Rissa Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Indre Fosen Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Leira, just northeast of the village of Årnset. It is one of the churches for the Rissa parish ...

is located on the south side of Leira.

Name

The name is 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 "

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" or "muddy shore". ''Leira'' is a common name of rivers in many places in Norway.

References

Villages in Trøndelag Indre Fosen {{Trøndelag-geo-stub