Lunde is a former municipality in
Telemark
Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ...
county, Norway. The municipality centre was
Bjervamoen.
It was created by a split from
Bø on 1 January 1867. At that time Lunde had a population of 2,257.
On 1 January 1964 the municipality was merged with
Holla municipality to form the new municipality
Nome. Before the merger Lunde had a population of 3,080. At present certain interests in Lunde want to reunite with Bø.
Lunde was the production site of the
Troll automobile, and it is also known as the birthplace of ski racer
Atle Skårdal and jazz singer
Torun Eriksen
Torun Eriksen (born 8 January 1977 in Lunde, Telemark) is a Norwegian jazz singer, whose musical talents first came to prominence as a music student at high school in Norway.
Eriksen was born in Lunde, Telemark. From the age of six, she sang i ...
.
The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the farm Lunde (
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
''Lundr''), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word ''lundr'' m '
grove'. (The form ''Lunde'' is derived from the
dative form ''lundi''.)
References
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Former municipalities of Norway
Nome, Norway
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