By: Aleksandar Lekic

Aleksandar Lekic — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:38:18 +0000

Hi David, very nice and I would say precise explanation of exViken county. I came to Norway January 2022 and for me it was normal set up. But after a while, maybe 6 month, I figure out that Viken is new county and nobody of my Norwegian friends is not using it (some of them from Sarpsborg, some of them Oslo, some of them Drammen, I am Asker, basically totally different counties now days :)). It was strange, I must say. You explain quite quite well. Hopefully, it will be used as good example in the future :).
Cheers Aleksandar
ps. also all of them speaking quite different norsk, but that you know better since I am still just beginner in norsk

By: Caterina B

Caterina B — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 17:49:44 +0000

Thanks so much for including this news in your post. I do have some living relatives in Norway but have only had rare contact by email from two of them. I have joined the genealogy website, “My Heritage” and thereby discovered thousands of relatives, some are living and some have passed away. My point is, that they almost all live in Al, or Sigdal in Buskerud. I must look up what county Lillehammer is in. My grandfather was born in that particular county somewhere near Lillehammer. At this moment I don’t remember the name of the village. I know I do not completely understand the difference of town names and county names or “district” names? I have one cousin in Eggedal, which is in Buskerud, but is it also considered to be in Sigdal??? I need to do more research for the explanations I lack. Thanks for writing this very informative blog!

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