Filefjell
mountain in Norway
Filefjell is a mountainous area in Norway. It is located in an area where three counties meet. It lies between Lærdal Municipality in the Vestland county in the west and Vang Municipality in Innlandet county in the east and it lies north of Hemsedal Municipality in Buskerud county. It is the historical, as well as modern, main route, linking Western Norway and Eastern Norway. The European route E16 highway passes through Filefjell.
Etymology
Filefjell or sometimes Fillefjell, might be a double-name as "file" is thought to be derived from Old Norse word Fjáll, the same root that evolved into the modern word "fjell". Thus Filefjell in English would be "Mountain-Mountain".
Geography
Filefjell stretches from Lærdal Municipality in the eastern part of Vestland county, at the innermost part of the Sognefjorden, to Vang Municipality in Valdres in the western part of Innlandet county. In the north, it borders the western part of the Jotunheimen mountain range. To the south, it meets with the Buskerud county border in Hemsedal Municipality.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3071781. Authority coordinates are 61.150, 8.250. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Filefjell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.