Skiptvet

Skiptvet kommune
—  Municipality  —
Skiptvet church
Coat of arms Østfold within Norway
Skiptvet within Østfold
Coordinates: 59°28′50″N 11°8′40″E
Country	Norway
County	Østfold
Administrative centre	Meieribyen
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Svein Olav Agnalt (Ap)
Area
• Total	101 km2 (39 sq mi)
• Land	93 km2 (36 sq mi)
Area rank	384 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	3,336
• Rank	251 in Norway
• Density	36/km2 (90/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	8.7 %
Demonym	Skjetving
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0127
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.skiptvet.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

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).

General information

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".

See also: Coat-of-arms of Stjørdal

External links

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