Editing Morgedal

{{Short description|Village in Kviteseid, Norway}}
{{Infobox settlement
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|subdivision_name1      = [[Eastern Norway]]
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|subdivision_name3      = [[Vest-Telemark]]
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|postal_code            = 3848 Morgedal
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|elevation_m            = 426
|elevation_footnotes    = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Morgedal, Kviteseid |url=https://www.yr.no/nb/v%C3%A6rvarsel/daglig-tabell/1-40965/Norge/Vestfold%20og%20Telemark/Kviteseid/Morgedal |access-date=2023-08-12 |publisher=[[yr.no]]}}</ref>}}

'''Morgedal''' is a village in [[Kviteseid Municipality]] in [[Telemark]] county, [[Norway]]. The village is located in the mountains along the [[European route E134]] highway, about {{convert|6|km}} to the northwest of the village of [[Brunkeberg (Telemark)|Brunkeberg]] and about {{convert|9|km}} to the northwest of the [[Kviteseid (village)|village of Kviteseid]].<ref name="snl">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Morgedal |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |url=https://snl.no/Morgedal |date=2022-07-01 |editor-last=Askheim |editor-first=Svein |language=Norwegian |editor2-first=Sten |editor2-last=Lundbo |accessdate=2023-08-12}}</ref>

==Skiing==
The village is notable because it is considered to be the birthplace of the sport of downhill [[skiing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.morgedal.com/english/|title=Morgedal, the birthplace of skiing|website=Morgedal.com|accessdate=2023-08-12}}</ref> Morgedal was home to [[Sondre Norheim]] who is often called the father of modern skiing. It was also home to [[Torjus Hemmestveit]] and [[Mikkjel Hemmestveit]], two brothers who created the world's first skiing school in [[Oslo|Christiania, Norway]] in 1881 before emigrating to the [[United States]] in the late 19th century.

[[Olav Bjaaland]], another skier from Morgedal, journeyed to the [[South Pole]] as a member of [[Amundsen's South Pole expedition]]. Bjaaland skied at the front of the expedition party so that the sled dogs had something to run after.<ref name="NBL">{{Cite web |last=Susan Barr |title=Olav Bjaaland |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Olav_Bjaaland |access-date=1 June 2017 |publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Olav Bjaaland |url=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Bjaaland%2C%20Olav |access-date=1 June 2017 |publisher=Norsk Polar History}}</ref>

The [[Olympic Flame]]s for the [[1952 Winter Olympics]] in [[Oslo]] and the [[1960 Winter Olympics]] in [[Squaw Valley, Placer County, California|Squaw Valley]], and the flame used in the national torch relay for the [[1994 Winter Olympics]] in [[Lillehammer]] (which was later used as the flame for the [[1994 Winter Paralympics]]), were all lit at the Øvrebø farm in Morgedal, the birthplace of [[Sondre Norheim]].

== Notable people ==
{{See also|Kviteseid#Notable_people}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.morgedal.com/ Morgedal - Den moderne skisportens vogge, Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218233720/http://www.sondrenorheim.com/ Sondre Norheim - the Skiing Pioneer of Telemark]

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[[Category:Kviteseid]]
[[Category:Villages in Telemark]]


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