Hjartdal is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of

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and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of

Sauland Sauland is a village (parish) and the administrative center in Hjartdal municipality in Telemark county. The population is above 800 people in 2016, which equates over half of all households in the whole municipality. The village is placed in the ...

. The municipality of ''Hierdal'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...

). It consists of three parish'es:

Hjartdal Hjartdal is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sauland. The munic ...

, Sauland, and

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. Up to the 1500s Hjartdal parish stretched from

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in the west and Kongsberg to the east. Counting from west to east, the villages

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, Svartdal, Hjartdal, Tuddal, Sauland, Gransherad,

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and Lisleherad was at one point included in the same parish. Sometime after 1687 Lisleherad was transferred to former Heddal parish, and last, Gransherad was separated 1860. At the same time the administrative centre was moved from Hjartdal village to Sauland. Today, the Hjartdal parish and municipality consist of the three villages Hjartdal, Sauland and Tuddal.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was ''Hjartdalr''. The first element is probably a river name ''*Hjarta'' (now called the Hjartdøla river) and the last element is ''dalr'' m ' valley, dale'. The river name is derived from ''hjǫrtr'' m ' red deer'.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1989. The arms show a silver-colored red deer on a green background. They are canting arms because the name of the municipality is derived from the word for deer.

Notable residents

Hans Paus Sir Hans Paus (born 1656 in Hjartdal – 18 March 1715) was a Norwegian priest and poet. He was parish priest in Kviteseid from 1683 until his death. A popular man in his parish who learned the local dialect (at a time when most church officials a ...

(1656–1715) a Norwegian priest and poet * Drengman Aaker (1839–1894) an American politician and businessman, served in the Iowa House of Representatives *

Kittel Halvorson Kittel Halvorson (December 15, 1846 – July 12, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. Biography Kittel Halvorson was born near Tuddal in Hjartdal, Hjartdal parish, Telemark, Norway. In 1848, he immigrated to the United States with ...

(1846–1936) farmer &

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from Minnesota * Knut Buen (born 1948) a Norwegian fiddler, composer, folklorist and publisher; lives in

* Sven Tore Løkslid, (Norwegian Wiki) (born 1984) county governor of Telemark, and former mayor of Hjartdal

References

External links

* *
Municipal fact sheet
from

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* {{Vestfold og Telemark, municipalities Municipalities of Vestfold og Telemark