Tyssedal

Tyssedal is a village in the West Norwegian municipality of Odda in Hordaland with 663 inhabitants (as of January 2011). It lies between fjords and mountains at the edge of the Hardangervidda.

Until the 1980s this was the largest employer in a smelter. This was preceded by the construction of the hydroelectric power station Tysso I. ahead in time from 1906 to 1918. The architect was Thorvald Astrup ( 1876-1940 ). The large number of migrant workers, one-third of western Norway, third from Eastern Norway and the rest from other parts of the country, had to develop a new dialect result, with which the researcher Paul Kerswill dealt intensively.

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