Skarnes is the

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Sør-Odal Municipality Sør-Odal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Odalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skarnes. Other villages in Sør-Odal include Disenå and Sander. Th ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The 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 ...

. The village lies along the river

Glomma The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the ...

, about half-way between the villages of Disenå and Sander. The new Sør-Odal municipal hall is located in the village. Construction was finished in 2010. The Kongsvingerbanen railway line runs through the village, stopping at Skarnes Station which opened in 1862. The European route E16 highway runs through the village. The Oppstad Church is located about north of the village. The village has a population (2021) of 2,557 and a

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of .

Location

The village consists of three parts. The "original" Skarnes is on the south side of the river

, near a bridge. The area called ''Tronbøl'' is south of the original village area, on the same side of the river. The third part of the village is ''Korsmo'', across the river to the northwest.

Notable people

* Charles Berstad (born 1964), football player * Magnus Gullerud (born 1991), handball player * Kent Håvard Eriksen (born 1991), football player * Kåre Tveter (1922–2012), painter * Øystein Sunde (born 1947), musician * Hanne Tveter (born 1974), jazz vocalist *

Elias Akselsen Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ‎ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy ...

(born 1947), singer * Veronica Akselsen (born 1986), singer

References

Sør-Odal Villages in Innlandet Populated places on the Glomma River {{Innlandet-geo-stub