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6 unusual facts about Vestfold


Jan Frode Nornes

He helped Strømsgodset to promotion to the Premiership, and was offered a permanent contract with the team from Drammen, but chose to return home to Vestfold, and Sandefjord.

Realf Ottesen Brandt

His mother Diderikke Ottesen Brandt (1827-1885) was born in Sande parish on the Oslofjord in Norway.

Vestfold

Sandefjord was formerly a headquarters for the Norwegian whaling fleet, and Horten used to be an important naval port.

European route E18 runs through the county roughly parallel to the railway.

Vestfold Hills

The Vestfold Hills are named after Vestfold, a county in Norway where Sandefjord, headquarters of the whaling industry, is located.

Vollen

Vollen, Vestfold, a village in Nøtterøy municipality, Vestfold county, Norway


Battle of Nesjar

The exact location is unknown, but it is somewhere in today's Langesundfjorden intet in Frierfjord, in Brunlanes, Larvik, Vestfold county.

Bjørn-Inge Larsen

From 1990 to 2000, Larsen served as the county chief physician in Buskerud, Finnmark and Vestfold.

Coat of arms of Vestfold

The coat of arms of Vestfold alludes to the tradition of the ancient Norwegian Royal house of Yngling originated in Vestfold.

Hans Mathisen

Mathisen has also written commissioned work Lysande Mørker for the reopening of Oslo Domkirke in 2010 together with Jon Fosse, and the commissioned work Timeless Tales for Vestfold Festspillene in 2009.

Nicolay Nicolaysen

In 1852, the first investigations took place of the Borre mound cemetery (Norwegian: Borrehaugene from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound) in Horten, Vestfold.

NSB Class 66

On 9 June 1947, the class was also taken into use from Oslo West Station (Oslo V) on the Vestfold Line, and along the Sørlandet Line to Kongsberg.

Pyrochlore

It was first described in 1826 for an occurrence in Stavern (Fredriksvärn), Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.

Tønsberg

The site had probably been named after two Viking Era mounds, which tradition links to two sons of King Harald I, Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, who was king in Vestfold, and his half-brother, Sigrød Haraldsson, king of Trondheim.

Vestfold Line

The Vestfold Line runs from Drammen Station to Eidanger Station, through three counties, Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark, and nine municipalities, Drammen Sande, Holmestrand, Re, Horten, Tønsberg, Stokke, Larvik and Porsgrunn.

Ynglingatal

Hägerdal (1994) doubts that Christian ideas were unknown in Scandinavia before the 11th century and he (1994:4) has pointed out that Borre and Skiringssal, in the part about the kings of Vestfold, were archaeologically important locations during the Viking Age but not later.


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