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Klevset or Kløvset is a village in the municipality of
Heim Heim is the German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese equivalent of the English word ''home''. It is a common German and Norwegian suffix in place names such as Mannheim and Trondheim. In Norwegian place names, the suffix is often weakened to just ...
in
Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...
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 t ...
. It lies on the shore of
Skålvik Fjord Skålvik Fjord (also Skaalvik Fjord; no, Skålvikfjorden) is an arm of Vinje Fjord in the municipality of Halsa in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway, in the traditional Nordmøre district. Skålvik Fjord extends southwards to Betna. Geologicall ...
along County Road 350. The island of Bårsetøya lies just offshore in the fjord. A small boatyard, J M Kleivset Båtbyggeri, formerly operated in Klevset. Among other vessels, it built three smacks for use by priests in the reconstruction of
Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...
after the Second World War. The settlement was attested as ''Klauset'' in the 16th centuryKaldhol, Hans. 1915. Bidrag til Romsdals amts kvartærgeologi. (= ''Det Kgl. Norske videnskabers selskabs skrifter'' 7). Trondheim: Aktietrykkeriet, p. 11. and ''Kleffßett'' in 1590 (as well as ''Kleffset'' in 1667 and ''Klefset'' in 1723). The name is probably derived from
Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...
*''kleif'' 'cliff', referring to its location below a steep hill.


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Klevset at Norgeskart
{{authority control Heim, Norway Villages in Trøndelag