Vetle Skagastølstinden (or ''Vesle Skagastølstind'') is one of the peaks constituting Skagastølstindane ("Skagastøl peaks") in the
Hurrungane mountain range and is
among Norway's highest. The tall mountain is located in the eastern part of the municipality of
Luster in
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...
county,
Norway
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. It lies directly between the mountains
Midtre Skagastølstind,
Store Skagastølstind, and
Sentraltind. The mountains
Store Styggedalstinden and
Jervvasstind lie to the east, and the village of
Skjolden lies to the west.
Name
The first element is the genitive of the name of the mountain farm ''Skagastølen'' and the last element is ''tind'' which means "
mountain
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peak". The mountain farm (dairy farm) Skagastølen belongs to the farm Skagen in
Luster and ''stølen'' is the finite form of ''støl'' which means "
mountain farm". ''Skagen'' is the finite form of ''skage'' which means "
headland
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" or "
promontory" and the name is equivalent to the famous
Skagen
Skagen () is the northernmost town in Denmark, on the east coast of the Skagen Odde peninsula in the far north of Jutland, part of Frederikshavn Municipality in North Denmark Region, Nordjylland, north of Frederikshavn and northeast of Aalbo ...
in
Denmark
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. The words ''vetle'' and ''vesle'' mean "the small".
See also
*
List of mountains in Norway by height
References
Mountains of Vestland
Jotunheimen
Luster, Norway
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