Lardal

Lardal kommune
Municipality

Coat of arms
Vestfold within
Norway

Lardal within Vestfold
Coordinates: 59°22′56″N 9°54′19″E / 59.38222°N 9.90528°E / 59.38222; 9.90528Coordinates: 59°22′56″N 9°54′19″E / 59.38222°N 9.90528°E / 59.38222; 9.90528
Country Norway
County Vestfold
Administrative centre Svarstad
Government
 • Mayor (2015) Knut Olav Omholt (Sp)
Area
 • Total 278 km2 (107 sq mi)
 • Land 271 km2 (105 sq mi)
Area rank 286 in Norway
Population (2015)
 • Total 2,463
 • Density 8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Lardøling[1]
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code NO-0728
Official language form Bokmål
Website www.lardal.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Lardal is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Svarstad. The parish of Laurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality is divided into the parishes of Svarstad, Styrvoll, and Hem.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Lagardalr. The first element is the genitive case of lǫgr meaning "water" or "river" (here the Numedalslågen river). The last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale". Prior to 1889, the name was spelled "Laurdal".[2]

See also: Larvik and Lårdal

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 17 July 1992. It was designed by Arvid Steen. The arms show a golden huldra on a red background. The huldra is a part of old Scandinavian folklore. This was chosen to represent the large forested areas in Lardal that were said to be inhabited by huldra.[3]

Churches

References

  1. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  2. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (in Norwegian) (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 367–368.
  3. ↑ "Kommunevåpen". Lardal kommuner. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-13. (Norwegian)
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