''Hardanger Folkeblad'' is a

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newspaper, published in

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, and covering Odda,

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and

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. The newspaper was founded in 1940, and its first editor was

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until it was halted by the

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in July 1941. After the

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there was a merge with

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controlled ''

Hardanger Arbeiderblad ''Hardanger Arbeiderblad'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Odda in Hordaland county. ''Hardanger Arbeiderblad'' was started in 1919 as ''Hardanger Social-Demokrat''. Its name was changed in 1923, the same year as a faction of the Labour ...

'' from 1945 to 1949, when the cooperation ended, and ''Hardanger Folkeblad'' continued as a separate newspaper. The newspaper is issued three times a week. It had a circulation of 5,499 in 2008.

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