Konsmo is a village in
Lyngdal
is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alleen. Some of the main villages in Lyngdal include Austad, Byremo, Fleseland, ...
municipality in
Agder
Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, 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 ...
. The village is located south of the lake
Ytre Øydnavatnet
Ytre Øydnavatnet is a lake in the municipality of Lyngdal in Agder county, Norway. The lake is located along the river Audna, just south of the lake Øvre Øydnavatnet. The lake sits at an elevation of above sea level. The long lake lies ...
along the
Audna
Audna or Audnedalselva is a river in Agder county, Norway. The long river runs from the lake Grindheimsvatnet, just north of the village of Byremo in Lyngdal municipality, south through the Audnedalen valley to its mouth at the Snigsfjorden i ...
river in the
Audnedalen
Audnedalen is the shortest of the six main north-south valleys in Agder county, Norway. The long river valley runs through the municipalities of Audnedal and Lindesnes. The river Audna runs through the valley, ending in Snigsfjorden in the sou ...
valley. The
Konsmo Church is located in the village. The small village of
Helle is located just north of Konsmo. The village was also the administrative centre of the old municipality of
Konsmo which existed from 1911 until 1964 and then it was the administrative centre of the municipality of
Audnedal from 1964 until 2020.
Name
The municipality (originally the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...
) is named after the old ''Konsmo'' farm (
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 settlement ...
: ''Konungsmór''), since the first church was built there. The name is a
corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...
of ''Kongsmoen'' which means King's
moor.
References
External links
Weather information for Konsmo
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Villages in Agder
Lyngdal