Dypvåg is a village in

Tvedestrand is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the town of Tvedestrand. There are many villages in the municipality including Dypvåg, Fiane, Gjeving, Gødders ...

municipality in

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 ("south ...

county,

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. The village is located along the

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coast and the Norwegian County Road 411, about east of the town of Tvedestrand and the village of Kråkvåg lies immediately west of Dypvåg. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of

Dypvåg Dypvåg is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960 when it was merged into the present-day municipality of Tvedestrand which is in Agder county. The small mu ...

which existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960. The historic

Dypvåg Church Dypvåg Church ( no, Dypvåg kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tvedestrand Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Dypvåg. It is the church for the Dypvåg parish which is part of the Aust-Nedene ...

is located in the village.

Name

The village is named after the old ''Dybvaag'' farm (

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: ''Djúpvágr'' or ''Djúpivágr''), since the first

was built there. The first element comes from ''dype'' which means "deep" and the last element is ''våg'' which means "water" or "harbor". The spelling was changed from Dybvaag to Dypvåg around the early 20th century.

Notable residents

Jens Marcussen Jens Marcussen (20 May 1926 – 29 January 2007) was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. Before the Progress Party was founded, Marcussen was a prominent member of the Conservative Party, being a member of the national party boar ...

(1926–2007), a politician *

Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup (18 January 1894 – 28 March 1980) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author, and bishop of the Diocese of Hamar in the Church of Norway from 1947 to 1964. He was noted as a warm-hearted and intellectual, ...

(1894–1980), a theologian *

Peter Olrog Schjøtt Peter Olrog Schjøtt (29 July 1833 – 7 January 1926) was a Norwegian philologist and politician. Personal life Peter Olrog Schjøtt was born in 1833 to priest and politician Ole Hersted Schjøtt (1805–1848) and his wife Anna Jacobine, née O ...

(1833–1926), a

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

References

Villages in Agder Tvedestrand {{Agder-geo-stub