Movann is a lake at the northern end of the village of Sørbråten in

Maridalen Maridalen is a valley in the north of Oslo, Norway, just above the suburb of Kjelsås. Considering that Maridalen is within the Oslo city limits, this area has a very low population density. The valley consists of forests, lakes and agricultural ...

valley in

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, a forested part of

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. It has a

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on the

Gjøvik Line The Gjøvik Line () is a Norwegian railway line between Oslo and Gjøvik. It was originally named the North Line (''Nordbanen'') and ran between Grefsen and Røykenvik. The line was completed to Gjøvik in 1902. The Gjøvik Line was one of t ...

. The population of Sørbråten is 317.

Etymology

The lake is named after the old farm Mo ( Norse ''Mór'') in

Nittedal Nittedal is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and city in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of ...

. The name of the farm is identical with the word ''mór'' m ' moor, heath'. The last element is ''vann'' 'water, lake'. The name ''Movann'' is

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no cou ...

, one of the two official written standards of Norwegian. The name and form of the railway station, ''Movatn'', is

Nynorsk Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

References

Neighbourhoods of Oslo Maridalen {{oslo-geo-stub