Editing Årdal (section)

==History==
[[Lærdal]] was established as a [[List of municipalities of Norway|municipality]] on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). The original municipality was identical to the Lærdal [[Church of Norway|parish]] ''([[prestegjeld]])'' including the sub-parish ({{lang|no|sokn}}) of ''Aardal''. In 1863, the sub-parish of Aardal (population: 1,791) was separated from [[Lærdal]] and became a municipality of its own. The spelling was later changed to Årdal. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1964, the Muggeteigen, Luggenes, and Bergmål farms (population: 11) were transferred from Årdal to [[Lærdal]].<ref name="Dag">{{Cite book |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |year=1999 |isbn=9788253746845 |language=no}}</ref><ref name="em">{{Cite web |last=Natvik |first=Oddvar |date=9 February 2005 |title=Some historical data on the 26 Kommunes |url=http://www.emigration.no/sff/emigration3.nsf/0/326D0346278A5909C1256F570048962C?OpenDocument |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613141425/http://www.emigration.no/sff/emigration3.nsf/0/326D0346278A5909C1256F570048962C?OpenDocument |archive-date=13 June 2008 |access-date=2008-06-24}}</ref>

===Establishment of center for asylum seekers===
From 1 August 2013 to 1 September it received 151 asylum seekers.<ref name="Responsibility">{{Cite web |date=2013-09-12 |title=Mottaksleder: – Alle har et ansvar for å hjelpe mennesker på flukt |trans-title=Leader of the center: – Everyone has a responsibility to help people on the run |url=http://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/_--har-et-ansvar-for-a-hjelpe-1.11237920 |publisher=[[NRK]] |language=no}}</ref> (The municipal council had beforehand said no to establishing a center for asylum seekers, but the ''[[fylkesmann]]en'' resolved otherwise.<ref name="Responsibility" />) On 4 November 2013, one of the residents of the center was found—with a knife in his hand—on the bus from Årdal to Oslo, together with one dead bus driver and two dead passengers. The incident is known as the [[2013 Valdresekspressen hijacking|Triple murder on the Valdres Express]],<ref>[http://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/trippeldrapssikta-avhoyrast-torsdag-1.11350896 Trippeldrapssikta blir avhøyrt torsdag] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235819/http://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/trippeldrapssikta-avhoyrast-torsdag-1.11350896 |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> and only one male<ref>[http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/--Trippeldrapssiktet-nektet-avhor-3005710.html?xtor=RSS-2 – Trippeldrapssiktet nektet avhør] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204826/http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/--Trippeldrapssiktet-nektet-avhor-3005710.html?xtor=RSS-2 |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>—the asylum seeker—is a police suspect. Earlier on the same day, for the first time one of the center's asylum seekers was removed (by police) in order to be deported from Norway.<ref name="FirstDeportation">[http://www.nrk.no/norge/politiet-set-ned-evalueringsutval-1.11357559 Politiet må setje ned evalueringsutval etter bussdrapene] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104211715/http://www.nrk.no/norge/politiet-set-ned-evalueringsutval-1.11357559 |date=4 January 2016 }}</ref> (After the deaths, media said that Norway has no requirement for screening the mental health of asylum seekers—unlike requirements in Netherlands.)