Official Name: | Edland |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Telemark#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Telemark |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Vest-Telemark |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Vinje Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 3895 Edland |
Coordinates: | 59.7381°N 7.6036°W |
Elevation M: | 542 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Edland is a village in Vinje Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located where the rivers Bora and Kjela meet, just to the east of the village of Haukeli. The European route E134 highway runs through the village. The village of Grunge is located about to the southeast and the village of Arabygdi lies about to the northeast. Aasmund Olavsson Vinje took the plot of his epic poem about "Storegut" from Edland.[2]