Vetle Skagastølstind

Mountain in Vestland, Norway

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Vetle Skagastølstind

Vetle Skagastølstind (Norway)

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LocationLuster, Vestland, NorwayParent rangeHurrunganeTopo map1517 IV Hurrungane

Vetle Skagastølstinden (or Vesle Skagastølstind) is one of the peaks constituting Skagastølstindane ("Skagastøl peaks") in the Hurrungane mountain range and is among Norway's highest. The 2,340-metre (7,680 ft) tall mountain is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. It lies directly between the mountains Midtre Skagastølstind, Store Skagastølstind, and Sentraltind. The mountains Store Styggedalstinden and Jervvasstind lie 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to the east, and the village of Skjolden lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the west.^[1]^[2]

Name

The first element is the genitive of the name of the mountain farm Skagastølen and the last element is tind which means "mountain peak". The mountain farm (dairy farm) Skagastølen belongs to the farm Skagen in Luster and stølen is the finite form of støl which means "mountain farm". Skagen is the finite form of skage which means "headland" or "promontory" and the name is equivalent to the famous Skagen in Denmark. The words vetle and vesle mean "the small".

References

^ "Vesle Skagastølstind - 2340 meters" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
^ "Vetle Skagastølstind". ScandinavianMountains.com. Retrieved 2010-09-11.