Hafslo is a village in

Luster Municipality Luster is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative centre is the village of Gaupne. Other villages in Luster include Fortun, Hafslo, Indre ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The village is located on the northern shore of the lake

Hafslovatnet Hafslovatnet is a lake in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The lake lies at an elevation of , has a surface area of , and a water volume of . It serves as a reservoir for the hydroelectric power station in Årøy. The prima ...

, about northwest of the village of

Solvorn Solvorn is a village in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the Lustrafjorden, the innermost part of the Sognefjorden. The village sits directly across the fjord from the village of Orne ...

which sits on the shores of the

Lustrafjorden The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, en, Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords ( no, Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the sma ...

. The lake Veitastrondvatnet is located to the northwest of Hafslo. The village of

Sogndalsfjøra Sogndalsfjøra is a village in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. It is located where the river Sogndalselvi runs out in the Sogndalsfjorden, a branch of the large Sognefjorden. The village is located about northwest of the v ...

lies to the south; the village of

Gaupne Gaupne is the administrative center of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located along the Gaupnefjorden, an arm of the Lustrafjorden, about north of the village of Hafslo. The village of Veitastrond is lo ...

lies about to the north; and the village of Veitastrond lies about to the northwest. The

Norwegian County Road 55 County Road 55 ( no, Fylkesvei 55) is a highway which runs between the municipalities of Lom and Høyanger in Norway. The section across Sognefjellet, known as Sognefjellsvegen, is designated a National Tourist Route. Also a short section at ...

runs through the village on its way from Sogndalsfjøra to Gaupne. The village has a population (2019) of 579 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

of .

History

Historically, the village of Hafslo was the administrative centre of the municipality of Hafslo, which existed from 1838 until 1963.

Hafslo Church Hafslo Church ( no, Hafslo kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hafslo. It is the church for the Hafslo parish which is part of the Sogn prosti ( de ...

, located in the village of Hafslo, was the main church for the municipality, and it still is the main church for the Hafslo parish.

Name

The name comes from the old ''Hafslo'' farm ( non, Hafrsló), since

was located there. The first element of the name comes from the old male name ''Hafr'' or from the word for "

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" (also ''hafr''). The second element of the name comes from the old word ''ló'' meaning "

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", probably due to the excellent farming areas nearby.

Notable residents

* Sylfest Lomheim (born 1945) – Norwegian

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* Jens Sterri (born 1923) – civil servant * Kjellfred Weum (born 1940) –

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Media gallery

Hafslo Norge.jpg, View of the village P1000382Hafslo.JPG, View of Hafslo (looking south) Hafslo kirke.jpg, View of Hafslo Church

References

External links

* Villages in Vestland Luster, Norway {{Vestland-geo-stub