Editing Namdalseid Municipality (section)

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named ''Namdalseid''. This name originally comes from the old ''Elda'' farm ({{langx|non|Eldueið}} or commonly shortened to {{lang|non|Eið}}) since the first [[Namdalseid Church|Eid Stave Church]] was built there. The first element is {{lang|non|eldu}} which is the name of the local river. The last element is {{wikt-lang|non|eið}} which means "path/road between two waters" (here the [[Beitstadfjorden]] and [[Namsenfjorden]])". The [[Viking]]s used to drag boats across Namdalseid using the [[river]]s and [[waterway]]s in the area, to get from one [[fjord]] to another without having to risk crossing the treacherous [[Folda, Trøndelag|Folda fjord]] by travelling up the sheltered [[Trondheimsfjord]] and continuing north along the coast. The passage was much easier in olden times as the [[sea level]] was higher and the waterways more numerous, but as recently as 2004 a boatdrag was done to commemorate the old traditions. Nowadays, however, one has to transport the boats by road for a fairly long stretch. Around the year 1550, the prefix {{lang|no|Namdals-}} was added to the name to distinguish it from other places using the common name ''Eid''. The prefix is the [[genitive case]] of the old region name [[Namdalen]].<ref name="snl">{{Cite web |last=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |title=Namdalseid – kommune i Nord-Trøndelag |url=http://snl.no/Namdalseid/kommune_i_Nord-Tr%C3%B8ndelag |access-date=2011-08-15 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kFFxvxaufcC |title=Norske gaardnavne: Nordre Trondhjems amt |date=1903 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=15 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=247 and 256 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref> Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Namdalseidet''. On 3 November 1917, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Namdalseid'', removing the [[Definite article|definite form]] ending ''-et''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1917 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015102381014_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |pages=1057-1065}}</ref>