Editing Bardu Municipality (section)

===Name===
The municipality has had several name variations since its establishment in 1854. Initially, the name was ''Bardodalen'' from 1854 until 1889. In 1889, the name was shortened to ''Bardo''. On 6 January 1908, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Bardu''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1908 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1908. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015110481021_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |page=24}}</ref> The root of the name is possibly a Norwegianized form of the [[Sami language|Sámi]] name {{lang|se|Beardu}}. The meaning of the Sámi name is probably "long and steep mountain side". The original suffix of the name, {{wikt-lang|no|dalen}} means "the valley", thus the name was "the valley of Bardo". An alternate explanation is that "Bardo" is a corruption of the old Norwegian male name ''Berto'' or ''Berdo'' ({{langx|non|Bergþórr}}).<ref name="snl">{{Cite web |last=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |title=Bardu |url=http://snl.no/Bardu |access-date=2012-09-28 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=py5MAQAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Tromsø amt |date=1911 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=17 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=14 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref>