Vemundvik is a village in

Namsos ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kl ...

municipality 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,

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. The village is located along the shore, about north of the town of Namsos and about east of the village of Ramsvika. Vemundvik Church is located in the village. The village of Vemundvik was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the old municipality of Vemundvik from 1838 until 1941, when the municipal administration moved to the nearby town of

Name

The village (and former municipality) is named after the old farm of Vemundvik, where the Vemundvik Church was located. The

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 ...

form of the name was on, Vémundarvik. The first part of the name is derived from the male name ''Vemund'' and the last part is ''vik'' which means

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Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Vemundvik include: * Jørgen Johannes Havig (1808–1883), politician

References

Villages in Trøndelag Namsos {{Trøndelag-geo-stub