Torsåker_(Hofors_Municipality)

Torsåker, Hofors Municipality

Torsåker, Hofors Municipality

Place in Gästrikland, Sweden

Torsåker is a locality situated in Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 899 inhabitants in 2010.[1] It contains a parish for the Archdiocese of Uppsala. The church at Torsåker has two runestones, Gs 7 and Gs 8.

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Etymology

Torsåker has the Norse pagan god Thor as an element along with Old Norse akr or áker, "arable land."[2] The typical translation for the name is "Thor's field" and was often originally used as the name of a farm.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  2. [2]
    Aliki, Pantos; Semple, Sarah (2005). Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe. Four Courts Press. pp. 210. ISBN 1-85182-665-3.
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