Editing Nord-Aurdal (section)

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the ''Aurdalen'' valley ({{langx|non|Aurardalr}}) since it was a central geographic feature of the area. The first word in the name is {{wikt-lang|no|nord}} which is essentially a prefix that means "north". The second word comes from the local valley name. The first element of that word is the [[genitive case]] of the old river name, {{lang|non|Aur}}, now named {{lang|no|Bøaelva}}. The river name comes from the word {{wikt-lang|non|aurr}} which means "[[gravel]]". The last element of the second word is {{wikt-lang|non|dalr}} which means "[[valley]]" or "dale". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Nordre Aurdal''. On 3 November 1917, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Nord-Aurdal''.<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> Both {{wikt-lang|no|nordre}} and {{wikt-lang|no|nord}} mean "north" (more specifically, "nordre" means "northern"), so the name ''Nord-Aurdal'' means "(the) northern (part of) Aurdal". (The [[Church of Norway]] parish of Aurdal that had existed for centuries was divided into two in 1805, just over 30 years before the parish borders were used to defin the new municipality that was established in 1838.)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJMOAAAAYAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt (anden halvdel) |date=1902 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=4-2 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=221 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref> {{See also|Sør-Aurdal#Name}}