Eidfjord

Eidfjord Municipality Eidfjord kommune
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Eidfjord within Hordaland
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Hardanger
Administrative centre	Eidfjord
Government
• Governor (2003)	Ola B Hereid (Tverrpolitisk Bygdeliste)
Area
• Total	1,493 km2 (576 sq mi)
• Land	1,388 km2 (536 sq mi)
• Rank	#53 in Norway
Population  (2004)
• Total	916
• Rank	#414 in Norway
• Density	1/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	−15.6%
Official language
• Norwegian form	Nynorsk
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1232
Website	Official website
Data from Statistics Norway

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Eidfjord is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway.

Eidfjord was separated from Ulvik May 1, 1891. (Eidfjord was merged with Ullensvang from January 1, 1964 to January 1, 1977.)

Eidfjord has two townships, Eidfjord and Øvre Eidfjord. Eidfjord is the municipality center situated by Eidfjorden, and is a major cruise harbour. Eidfjord has several wonderful tourist sites, like the Sima Power Plant built into the mountain itself, the famous waterfall Vøringsfossen with a free fall of 182 m and large parts of Europe's largest mountain plateau, Hardangervidda.

The name

The municipality is named after Eidfjorden (Norse Eiðafjörðr). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the farm Eiðar, the old churchsite. The name of the farm is the plural form of eið n 'land between to waters' (here the fjord and the lake of Eidfjordvatnet).

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1984). It shows the antlers of a reindeer.

(See also the coat-of-arms of Porsanger, Rendalen, Tromsø, Vadsø and Vågå.)