Utne is a village in

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the Odda (town), town of Odda. Some o ...

municipality in the

Hardanger Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord. It consists of the municipalities of Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Kvam, and is ...

region of

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

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. The village is located on the northern end of the Folgefonn Peninsula, at the

confluence In geography, a confluence (also ''conflux'') occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel (geography), channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main ...

of the Sørfjorden and

Hardangerfjorden The Hardangerfjord () is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the List of Norwegian fjords, second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Vestland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches from the Atlantic Ocean into the mou ...

. The village is the site of

Utne Church Utne Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ullensvang Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Utne, at the northern tip of the Folgefonna peninsula. It is the church for the Utne parish which is ...

. The village of Alsåker lies about to the west on the northern shore of the peninsula and the village of

Vikebygd Vikebygd is a village in Vindafjord municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located along the Ålfjorden, about straight west of the village of Ølensvåg. The village was the administrative centre of the former municipality o ...

lies about to the south along the eastern shore of the peninsula. Utne is a ferry port with regular ferry routes from

Kinsarvik Kinsarvik is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of a small bay at the confluence of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord, where they join to form the main branch of the Hardang ...

to Kvanndal via Utne, connecting the two sides of the fjord. Utne is also home to the Utne Hotel, Norway's oldest hotel in continuous operation, founded in 1722.

Name

Utne, in Norwegian, probably has some pre-Germanic elements (i.e. before approx. 200 CE). Other place-names in the area also has an element of pre-Germanic and unknown origins. It has been suggested that it derives from "Út-tún", meaning the hamlet or farmstead that is "out". This fits with the village's position at the tip of a peninsula that sticks out into the

. This is however uncertain.

Media gallery

File:Hardanger ferry.jpg, The ferry stopped at Utne File:Utne Halfway stop.jpg, View of Utne from the ferry File:Utne Hotell.JPG, Utne hotel File:Utne 1933 Wilse.jpeg, Utne in 1933 File:Utne_in_sun.JPG, Utne as seen from ferry during summer

References

Villages in Vestland Ullensvang {{Vestland-geo-stub