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Landmark Attractions In Lardal Municipality

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Svarstad Church

Trollfoss

The Fortified Town

Kjosterudjuvet

The Telemark Canal

Brygga i Toensberg

Boe Sommarland

TusenFryd

Lardal was a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Svarstad. The parish of Laurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . The municipality was divided into the parishes of Svarstad, Styrvoll, and Hem. As a part of Norway's nationwide municipal reform, Lardal was merged into Larvik on 1 January 2018. Pikstein, the highest point in Lardal, is located in westernmost Lardal at the border to Buskerud County.
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Landmark Attractions In Lardal Municipality

1. The Fortified Town Fredrikstad
Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway , officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, or as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its amicable and peaceful dissolution in 1905.The two states kept separate constitutions, laws, legislatures, administrations, state churches, armed forces, and currencies; the kings mostly resided in Stockholm, where foreign diplomatic representations were located. The Norwegian government was presided over by viceroys: Swedes until 1829, Norwegians until 1856. That office was later vacant and then abolished in 1873. Foreign policy was conducted through the Swedish foreign ministry until the dissolution of the union in 1905. Norwa...
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2. The Telemark Canal Skien

Lardal Municipality Videos

Huldra, Folklore's Lady of the Forest

A huldra is a dangerous seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore.
She is a member of a family of very ancient beings that inhabit the forests, but remain hidden from humankind

Huldra, Folklore’s Lady in the Forest by Njord Kane
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The Hidden Hollow by Njord Kane

Article References
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** Ynglinga saga
** Sturlunga saga
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** Hultkrantz, Åke, ed. (1961). The supernatural owners of nature: Nordic symposion on the religious conceptions of ruling spirits (genii loci, genii speciei) and allied concepts. Stockholm studies in comparative religion, 0562-1070 ; 1. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.
** Häll, Mikael (2013). Skogsrået, näcken och djävulen: erotiska naturväsen och demonisk sexualitet i 1600- och 1700-talens Sverige (in Swedish). Stockholm: Malört. ISBN 978-91-978751-2-7

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