Isfjorden is a village in

Rauma Municipality Rauma is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre is the town of Åndalsnes. Other settlements in Rauma include the villages of Måndalen, Innfjorden, Vebl ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

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. It is located about east of the town of

Åndalsnes is a town in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Åndalsnes is in the administrative center of Rauma Municipality. It is located along the Isfjorden, at the mouth of the river Rauma, at the north end of the Romsdalen valley. ...

. The mountains

Kyrkjetaket Kyrkjetaket or Kirketaket is a mountain on the border of the municipalities of Rauma and Nesset in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The tall peak is located in Rauma, about northeast of the village of Isfjorden and from the town of Åndalsn ...

and

Gjuratinden Juratinden or Gjuratinden is a mountain on the border of the municipalities of Molde and Rauma in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located about east of the village of Isfjorden and about east of the town of Åndalsnes. The lake Eikesd ...

lie a few kilometers away. The historic

Hen Church Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other galliformes, gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman. Hen or Hens may also refer to: Places Norway *Hen, Buskerud, a villa ...

is located in the village. The village has a population (2018) of 1,326 and a

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of .

History

Isfjorden played an important role in the

Battle of Kringen Battle of Kringen ( no, Slaget ved Kringen) involved an ambush by Norwegian peasant militia of Scottish mercenary soldiers who were on their way to enlist in the Swedish army for the Kalmar War. The battle has since become a part of folklore ...

, when Scottish ships, needing a landing spot after sea routes had been blocked by

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forces, landed there on 20 August 1612.

Clothing industry

Historically there was a lot of trade between Isfjorden and the northern county of

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

. Shoes and clothing were produced in practically every home, and eventually several factories were established. This earned Isfjorden the label "the cradle of the Norwegian clothing industry". One of the factories, "Oddfred Tokles konfeksjonsfabrikk", has been turned into a museum.

Media gallery

File:Adolph Tidemand & Morten Müller - Sinclairs landing i Romsdal.jpg, Painting by

Adolph Tidemand Adolph Tidemand (14 August 18148 August 1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are ''Haugianerne'' (''The Haugeans''; 1852) and '' Brudeferd i Hardanger'' (''The Bridal Procession in Hardanger''; ...

in the style of

Norwegian romantic nationalism Norwegian romantic nationalism ( no, Nasjonalromantikken) was a movement in Norway between 1840 and 1867 in art, literature, and popular culture that emphasized the aesthetics of Norwegian nature and the uniqueness of the Norwegian national ident ...

of the Scottish landing at Isfjorden - the number of ships is inaccurate File:Vikinghouse-Isfjorden-Norway.jpg, ''The Viking House'' by the school. File:Isfjordshallen-rauma-norway.jpg, ''The Isfjord Hall''. File:Isfjorden-school-rauma-no.jpg, Isfjorden school. File:Konfeksjonsmuseet-Rauma-Norway.jpg, The Clothing Industry Museum. File:Henkirke-3-Norway.jpg,

Hen church Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other galliformes, gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman. Hen or Hens may also refer to: Places Norway *Hen, Buskerud, a villa ...

, Isfjorden. File:Kirketaket-rauma-norway.jpg, Skarven, Kirketaket and Kjøvskartind, as seen from

. File:Vengetind-norway.jpg, Store Venjetind and the entrance of Vengedalen. File:Isfjorden-Aasen-Dalsbygda-HH.jpg, Dalsbygda as seen from Aasen.

References

External links

Isfjorden in RomsdalWebcamera with pictures from Isfjorden
Villages in Møre og Romsdal Rauma, Norway {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub