Lund, Norway

For the city in Sweden, see Lund.

Lund kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Rogaland within Norway
Lund within Rogaland
Coordinates: 58°31′11″N 6°27′41″E
Country	Norway
County	Rogaland
District	Dalane
Administrative centre	Moi
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Kjell Erfjord (KrF)
Area
• Total	412 km2 (159.1 sq mi)
• Land	354 km2 (136.7 sq mi)
Area rank	237 in Norway
Population (2005)
• Total	3,128
• Rank	265 in Norway
• Density	9/km2 (23.3/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	1.1 %
Demonym	Lunddøl
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1112
Official language form	Neutral
Website	www.lund.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Lund is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Moi. The parish of Lunde was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Heskestad was merged with Lund on 1 January 1965.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Lund farm (Old Norse: Lundr), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word lundr which means "grove" (but here maybe 'sacred grove'). Before 1889, the name was written "Lunde".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 14 December 1984. The arms show three joined acorns. The acorns symbolize the many oak trees in the municipality, as well as many toponyms and names of farms, which start with Eik (oak), such as Eik, Eike, and Eikeland.

See also

• Hovsvatnet, lake in Lund
• Grøsfjellvatnet, lake in Lund, Eigersund and Sokndal
• Teksevatnet, lake in Lund and Eigersund

External links

• Media related to Lund at Wikimedia Commons
• The Wiktionary entry for Lund
• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
• Rogaland travel guide from Wikitravel