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Country
  
Administrative centre
  
Demonym(s)
  
Skjetving

Area
  
101 km²

Local time
  
Thursday 5:04 PM

Official language form
  
County
  
Østfold

Area rank
  
384 in Norway

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
3,336 (2004)

Administrative center
  
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Weather
  
7°C, Wind SW at 19 km/h, 45% Humidity

Skiptvet is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen. Skiptvet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

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Map of Skiptvet Municipality, Norway

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Skiptvet farm (Old Norse: Skipþveit and/or Skygþveit), since the first church was built here. The meaning of the first element(s) is not known and the last element is þveit which means "clearing in the woods". Prior to 1889, the name was written "Skibtvet".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 November 1981. The arms show a silver dragon on a red background. The dragon is derived from a local legend, in which a dragon went to sleep in the local churchyard every morning. In the evening the dragon went back to the forest, where it had its lair. A tarn near the church is still called Dragehullet meaning "the dragon's pit".

References

Skiptvet Wikipedia


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