Ridabu is a village in

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county,

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. The village is located at the intersection of the

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highway and the

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. Vang Church is located in the village which lies about east of the town of

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. The suburban village area was once its own separate village, but over time, the town of

was grown and now Ridabu is considered to be the eastern part of the town of

, so population statistics are no longer separately kept for Ridabu. Prior to 1992, Ridabu was a part of the rural municipality

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Name

The name is very old village name (). The suffix simply means 'built', but the meaning of the first part of the name has no definite interpretation. Several old village names end in ''-bú'', and in those cases the prefix refers to nearby place names. For example, the prefix in the name of

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() is named after Seli which is the original name of the lake ''

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''. A name of a nearby place such as could be the source of this name. Once possibility is the noun , which means 'red', 'anchorage', or 'open harbor', or the verb , which means 'swing', 'crank', or 'anchor'. One possibility is that the nearby bay could have been historically named something like with the meaning 'anchorage' or 'harbor'. The nearby Åker farm was an older

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residence for powerful chiefs and small kings. Therefore it is likely that the meaning of the current name ''Ridabu'' was originally , which means a village 'built near Ríði' (a bay now called ''Åkersvika'').

References

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