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Fjord/firth/Förde as well as ford/Furt/Vörde/voorde refer to a Germanic noun for a travel: North Germanic ferd or färd and of the verb to travel, Dutch varen, German fahren; English to fare. [30] As a loanword from Norwegian, [26] it is one of the few words in the English language to start with the sequence fj. [31]
fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes" [8] flense , "to strip of blubber or skin" [ 9 ] floe , "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water" [ 10 ]
Eyjafjörður (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeiːjaˌfjœrðʏr̥] ⓘ, Island Fjord) is one of the longest fjords in Iceland. It is located in the central north of the country. Situated by the fjord is the country's fourth most populous municipality, Akureyri.
Hvalfjörður (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkʰvalˌfjœrðʏr̥] ⓘ, "whale fjord") is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) long and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) wide. A portrait of the legend of the valley of Glymur with the "Rauðhöfði"
The Oslofjord (Norwegian: Oslofjorden, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊˌfjuːɳ]; English: Oslo Fjord [1] [2] [3]) is an inlet in southeastern Norway.The 120-kilometre (75 mi) fjord begins at the small village of Bonn in Frogn Municipality and stretching northwards to the city of Oslo, and then curving to the east and then south again.
Other low relief landforms that are only associated with fjards, such as mud flats, salt marshes, and flood plains, [1] further characterize the difference between fjords and fjards. "Förden" of the German coast and the fjords of Danish eastern Jutland together form a third type of glacial inlet. They tend to occur along older 'beheaded' river ...
Borgarfjörður (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈpɔrkarˌfjœrðʏr̥] ⓘ) is a fjord in the west of Iceland near the town of Borgarnes. Although the waters of Borgarfjörður appear calm, the fjord has significant undercurrents and shallows. The many flat islands lying in the fjord are for the most part uninhabited.
The meaning of the first element is unknown. One theory is that the oldest form of the fjord name was Úffóti. In this case, the first element would be úfr which means "Eurasian eagle-owl". The last element of the name is the dative case of fótr which means "foot" or "leg (including the foot)". Thus, the name could be referring to leg/foot ...