Presteid is a village in the municipality of

Hamarøy Hamarøy ( smj, Hábmer) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is t ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located immediately east of the village of

Oppeid Oppeid or Oppeide is the administrative centre of Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about southwest of the town of Narvik. It is located right next to the village of Presteid on a small isthmus of land b ...

, along the Presteidfjorden. Presteid is part of the

urban area which has a population (2018) of 551. The village is the location of

Hamarøy Church Hamarøy Church ( no, Hamarøy kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Presteid. It is the church for the Hamarøy parish which is part of the Ofoten p ...

, the main church for the municipality. The famous Norwegian author

Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective a ...

lived in this village from the age of 9 until 14. He often wrote about Presteid in his works. The Knut Hamsun Centre is located in Presteid, and it is a museum about the author and his works.

Stoklands Bilruter Stocklands Bilruter AS was a bus company operating in the municipality of Hamarøy in Nordland county, Norway. It operated on a contract with the Nordland county municipality. The company was founded in 1924 by Ludvig Stokland that started operat ...

, a bus company, was based here until it was merged with Saltens Bilruter.

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Hamarøy Villages in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Nordland-geo-stub