Vigeland is a village in

Lindesnes Lindesnes () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Manda ...

municipality in

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county,

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. The village is located along the river

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 ...

, about north of the river's mouth at the

Snigsfjorden Snigsfjorden or Sniksfjorden is a fjord in Lindesnes municipality in Agder county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the mouth of the river Audna by the small village of Snig, about south of the municipal centre of Vigeland. The fjord heads s ...

. The

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim (city), Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other ...

highway runs east-west through Vigeland, connecting it to the town of

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, about to the southeast. The village has a population (2015) of 1,471 which gives the village a

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of . Prior to 1 January 2020, the village was the

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of Lindesnes municipality.

Name

The village of Vigeland was named for the historic Vigeland farm which was located where the village is now. The farm was first documented in 1390 (''Vikinggaland'', meaning "Viking land"). The first element is the genitive case of the

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personal name meaning "land owned by (the man) Víkingi". The first element could also be the genitive plural case of the

word '' víkingr'' meaning "Viking" but the use of such a name would be a bit obscure.

Valle Church

Valle Church is located on the east side of the

river at Vigeland. It is the church for the Valle parish which covers the northeastern half of the municipality. The church has a cruciform shape and was built in 1793. It was internally restored for its 200th anniversary in 1993. A statue created by Gustav Vigeland of Peder Claussøn Friis, who was once a priest in Lindesnes, stands outside the Valle Church rectory.''Valle kirke'' (Den Norske Kirke)
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Media gallery

Vigeland IMG 3381 vigeland sentrum.JPG, The village of Vigeland Valle Kirke, Vigeland.png, Valle Church at Vigeland 20090430-2058-09 - Vigeland.jpg, View of the village Vigeland - no-nb digifoto 20160713 00101 NB MIT FNR 09516.jpg, View of the village around 1950

Notable residents

The family of the artist Gustav Vigeland and his brother Emanuel both originally came from Vigeland. The brothers both lived for a time with their grandparents on a farm called Mjunebrokka in Vigeland. Both of Gustav Vigeland's parents were buried in the Valle Church cemetery.

References

Villages in Agder Lindesnes {{Agder-geo-stub