Fluberg Explained

Official Name:	Fluberg
Settlement Type:	Village
Pushpin Map:	Innlandet#Norway
Pushpin Label Position:	top
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location of the village
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Norway
Subdivision Name1:	Eastern Norway
Subdivision Name2:	Innlandet
Subdivision Type3:	District
Subdivision Name3:	Land
Subdivision Type4:	Municipality
Subdivision Name4:	Søndre Land Municipality
Utc Offset1:	+01:00
Utc Offset1 Dst:	+02:00
Postal Code Type:	Post Code
Postal Code:	2862 Fluberg
Coordinates:	60.7682°N 10.2477°W
Elevation M:	182
Elevation Footnotes:	^[1]

Fluberg is a village in Søndre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located near the north end of the Randsfjorden, about north of the village of Hov and about to the southeast of the village of Dokka. The village was the administrative centre of the old Fluberg Municipality which existed from 1914 until 1962.

Fluberg Church

Fluberg Church (Fluberg Kirke) is the oldest existing church in Søndre Land Municipality. The present church replaced a previous stave church on the same site. This was the main church for both Nordre Land and Søndre Land until 1866. The present church was built of timber in 1703. The pulpit from 1702 was carved by Lars Jenssen Borg (d. 1710). The baptismal font was made by his son, Nicolai Larsen Borg (1673-1764) and is from 1721. In 1751, Lars Pinnerud (1700–1762) carved a new altar for the church. The following year it was painted by Eggert Munch (ca. 1685-1764).^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Fluberg farm (Norse, Old: Fluguberg), since the first Fluberg Church was built there. The first element seems to be the genitive case of an old river name Fluga, and the last element is berg which means "mountain". The (hypothetical) river name Fluga could be derived from the word fluga which means "fly" (as in 'the river makes sounds like a fly'), or from the word flug which means "steep side of a mountain".^[8]

Notable residents

• Ola Viker (1897–1972), a Norwegian novelist and lawyer
• Øyvind Myhre, a Norwegian author of science fiction and fantasy literature
• Johan Peter Weisse (1832–1886), a Norwegian philologist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fluberg, Søndre Land . 2022-10-08 . yr.no.
2. Web site: Fluberg kirke . September 1, 2018 . Kulturminnesøk.
3. Web site: Fluberg kirke . September 1, 2018 . Norske Kirkebygg.
4. Web site: Henning Alsvik . Lars Jenssen Borg . September 1, 2018 . Norsk kunstnerleksikon.
5. Web site: Henning Alsvik . Nicolai Larsen Borg . September 1, 2018 . Norsk kunstnerleksikon.
6. Web site: Helen Holager . Lars Pinnerud . September 1, 2018 . Norsk kunstnerleksikon.
7. Web site: Øivind Storm Bjerke . Eggert Munch . September 1, 2018 . Norsk kunstnerleksikon.
8. Book: Rygh, Oluf. Oluf Rygh

   . Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt. 4. Oluf Rygh. W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. 1900. Kristiania, Norge. 181–182. no.