Hornnes og Iveland


Hornnes og Iveland is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The municipality included all of the present-day municipality of Iveland and the western half of the present-day municipality of Evje og Hornnes in the Setesdal region. The administrative centre was the village of Hornnes where the Hornnes Church is located. The other church in the municipality was the Iveland Church in the village of Birketveit.

History

The parish of Hordnæs og Iveland was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. According to the 1835 census, the municipality had a population of 1,848. On 1 January 1886, Hornnes og Iveland was divided to create two separate municipalities: Hornnes and Iveland. The municipality of Iveland still exists today, while Hornnes currently a part of the municipality of Evje og Hornnes.

Name

The municipality is an amalgamation of the names of two local parishes: Hornnes and Iveland.
The parish of Hornnes is named after an old Hornnes farm, since the first Hornnes Church was built there. The first element is horn which means "horn" and the last element is nes which means "headland". So the meaning of Hornnes is "the headland shaped like a horn".
The parish of Iveland is named after the old Iveland farm, since the first Iveland Church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the river name Ífa and the last element is land which means "land" or "farm". The old river name is probably derived from the Norse word ýr which means "yew".