Bjørgvin

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Bjørgvin

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From Old Norse Bjǫrgvin. Cognate with Icelandic Björgvin and Norwegian Bjørgvin.

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1. Bergen (A port city, municipality and former county in Hordaland, Norway; official name: Bergen)

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From Old Norse Bjǫrgvin (“meadow between the mountains”), revived in the 19th century. From bjarg (“rock, boulder, cliff”) +‎ vin (“meadow, pasture”). Compare Faroese Bjørgvin and Icelandic Björgvin.

• IPA^(key): /²bjørɡ.vɪn/, [²bjœrɡ.ʋɪn]

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1. Bergen (A port city, municipality and former county in Hordaland, Norway; official name: Bergen)
   • 1929, Halldor O. Opedal, Ein harding på vidåtta i 60-åri, page 25:

     No er stutt á fortelja at sild fekk me, kom heppeleg til Bjørgvin og selde godt.

     Now it is short to say, that we got herring, and it luckily came to Bergen and sold well.

2. Clipping of Bjørgvin bispedøme (“Diocese of Bjørgvin”).
   • 2014 March 31, “Biskop Halvor”, in Den Norske Kyrkja [The Church of Norway]‎^[1], retrieved 25th December 2022:

     Halvor Nordhaug vart biskop i Bjørgvin i 2009.

     Halvor Nordhaug became bishop of [the diocese of] Bjørgvin in 2009.