Sødal is a neighbourhood in the city of

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, f ...

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("sou ...

county,

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. It's located in the Lund borough on the east bank of river

Otra The Otra is the largest river in the Sørlandet region of Norway. It begins in Setesdalsheiene mountains at the lake Breidvatnet in Bykle municipality in Agder county, just south of the border with Vinje municipality in Vestfold og Telemark co ...

. Previously it has been farmed and a

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms wh ...

quarry and a still existing lime kiln located at Sødal. In 1803, four aggressive

wolves The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

were caught in outlying areas. Sødal is currently a residential area. At the ''Torridalsveien'' ( County Road 1) there is a tollgate which is a part of the toll ring around Kristiansand.Rudjord, Kåre: ''Oddernes bygdebok, Gårdshistorie'', published by Kristiansand kommune, 1968. Pp. 533 to 552 .

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