Official Name: | Yset |
Other Name: | Kvikne |
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: | Central Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Innlandet |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Østerdalen |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Tynset |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 2590 Yset |
Coordinates: | 62.5657°N 10.3223°W |
Elevation M: | 560 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Yset or Kvikne is a village in Tynset Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The mountain village is located near the mountain pass that lies between the large Østerdalen valley and Trøndelag county. The village is located along the Orkla River at the confluence with the Ya River[2] about southeast of the village of Innset and about northwest of the village of Tynset. Norwegian National Road 3 passes through the village.[3]
The old dam construction for the Eidsfossen Hydroelectric Power Station can be seen from National Road 3 about 5km (03miles) south of Yset.[4]
The Norwegian author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was born at the Bjørgan parsonage in Kvikne.
Vollan gård in Kvikne is the site of the national park center for the nearby Forollhogna National Park. The farm was the site for filming of the movie Secondløitnanten in 1993.