Snorum is a village, nowadays more like a farm, in Jörns socken,

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. The village got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme '' Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum'' and named five new populated places in the Jörn Parish each after a word in the rhyme. Snipp, Snapp, Hej and Basalorum are four other villages in the vicinity.Karl Fahlgren: ''Skellefte sockens historia'' (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB

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{{sweden-geo-stub Villages in Sweden Populated places in Västerbotten County