Tjoflot is a 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 ...

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Hardanger Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord. It consists of the municipalities of Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Kvam, and is ...

district, in

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county. Tjoflot lies next to the sea on the Oksen Peninsula, with

Hardanger Fjord The Hardangerfjord ( en, Hardanger Fjord) is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Vestland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches from the Atlantic Ocean into the mountain ...

in front of the village to the southwest and Mount Oksen () rising behind it. The village obtained a road connection in 1984. The origin of the village name ''Tjoflot'', as the toponym is written today, is uncertain. Descendants from Ytrabødn (also known as Garen or Erlingsgarden), the main farm in the settlement, usually write their surname as ''Tjoflot'' or '' Tjoflaat''. Genealogical records show that the toponym was previously spelled ''Þiodaflar'' in 1378, ''Thiodhaflar'' in 1427, ''Tiodaaflaa'' in 1463, ''Tyofflo'' in 1521, and ''Thioflodt'' in 1667. The locals say that ''Tjod'' (or ''Þjod'') means 'people' and that the name originates from the location of an old

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site at a level area where such an assembly could be held. File:Nede_ved_naustet.jpg, The boathouse area inside the bay at Tjoflot File:Tjoflot I.jpg, View from Tjoflot across Samla Fjord in

in July 2006 File:Tjoflot II.jpg, View from Tjoflot toward

Kinsarvik Kinsarvik is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of a small bay at the confluence of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord, where they join to form the main branch of the Hardan ...

and Lofthus in

. In the foreground the fjord splits into South Fjord and

Eid Fjord The Eid Fjord ( no, Eidfjorden) is the innermost part of the Hardanger Fjord in Norway. It extends eastwards from the Utne Fjord and Sørfjorden. The Eid Fjord lies in the municipalities of Ullensvang, Ulvik, and Eidfjord in Vestland county. ...

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Tjoflot include: * Nils Tjoflot (1865–1898), violinist

References

{{authority control Ullensvang Villages in Vestland