Eiteråga is a village in

Rana Municipality or is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mo i Rana, which houses the National Library of Norway. Other population centers in R ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The village is located in the

Dunderland Valley The Dunderland Valley (, ) is a valley in Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It reaches from just below the eastern Saltfjellet plateau about south of the Arctic Circle. The mountain Bolna is situated in the uppermost boundary of ...

, along the

Ranelva Ranelva is a long river in Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is one of the longest rivers in Nordland county. The catchment area of the river is . Before the power stations of ''Reinforsen'' (1925) and Langvatnet (1964) were bui ...

river about east of the village of Storforsheia and about south of the village of Dunderland. The

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

highway passes through the village. The Stjernen Art and Silver Gallery is a local shop that produces pieces of jewelry from silver and precious stones. The primary industry for Eiteråga is mainly farming. The area was cleared for farming in 1723. Originally, the village was composed of two farms. Since 1749 the village has been centered on four farms, more or less equal in size. The farms were regulated by the Norwegian state in 1925.

River

There is a small river that passes through the village that is also named ''Eiteråga''. The river name may mean "the cold river" which comes from the

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was 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 ...

word: . The name may also be derived from

Proto-Germanic Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic languages, Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from ...

, meaning "something welling forwards". The river has its source in between the mountains ''Bomfjellet'' and ''Ørtfjellet''.

Media gallery

File:Eiterå river A.jpg, Eiteråa flowing down from the mountain File:Eiterå river B.jpg, Eiteråa passing beneath a bridge at E6 File:Eiterå river C.JPG, Eiteråa passing beneath a bridge at E6 File:Eiterå river D.JPG, The outlet of Eiteråa into Ranelva File:Eiterå farm A.JPG, Eiterå farm File:Eiterå farm B.JPG, Eiterå farm

References

External links

Stjernen Art and Silver Gallery
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