Skjeggedal is a small village in the municipality of

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd ...

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 t ...

. The village lies on the northern shore of the lake Vetlevatnet, about northeast of the village of

Tyssedal Tyssedal is a village in Ullensvang municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the shore of the Sørfjorden (Hardanger), Sørfjorden about north of the town of Odda (town), Odda. Tyssedal is located in an environment in ...

and about northwest of the town of Odda. The village is mostly made up of

holiday cottage A holiday cottage, holiday home, vacation home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations, corporate travel, and temporary housing often for less than 30 days. Such properties are typically small homes, such as cottag ...

s and a large hydroelectric power station near the large

Ringedals Dam Ringedals Dam is a gravity dam by Ringedalsvatnet at Tyssedal in Odda municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The dam was built in stages between 1909 and 1918 in connection with the hydroelectric power plant in Tyssedal and the factories ...

on the lake

Ringedalsvatnet Ringedalsvatnet is a lake in Ullensvang Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The lake sits just east of the village of Skjeggedal and about east (up the valley) from the village of Tyssedal, which sits on the shore of the Sørfjorden. Th ...

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Skjeggedal kraftstasjon.jpg, Skjeggedal power station Ventilhus Schultstunnel Ringedalsdammen.jpg, Ventilhus Schultstunnel Ringedalsdammen Odda Skjeggedal - NB MS G4 0060.jpg, Skjeggedal (c. 1900) Mågelibanen.JPG, Mågeli railway leading up the mountain Ringedalsdammen, Skjeggedal, Norway.jpg, Ringedals Dam at Skjeggedal

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Villages in Vestland Ullensvang {{Vestland-geo-stub