Delsbo is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 in Hudiksvall Municipality

Hudiksvall Municipality

Hudiksvall Municipality is one of Sweden's 290 municipalities, situated in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is in the city Hudiksvall....

, Gävleborg County

Gävleborg County

Gävleborg County is a county or län on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders to the counties of Uppsala, Västmanland, Dalarna, Jämtland and Västernorrland. The capital is Gävle.- Administration :...

, Sweden

Sweden

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, with 2,189 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated some 25 kilometers west of Hudiksvall

Hudiksvall

Hudiksvall is a city and the seat of Hudiksvall Municipality, in Hälsingland, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 14,850 inhabitants in 2005. Hudiksvall is also known as Glada Hudik , a term that originated in the 19th century as word spread of its friendly hospitality and its lively social life...

, in the vicinity of the two lakes of Dellen

Dellen

Dellen is a lake system in the province of Hälsingland, Sweden. It consists of two lakes, Northern Dellen and Southern Dellen, appreciated among fly-fishermen for their distinct population of brown trout....

. The town is known for its assembly of musicians at Delsbo Ancient Farm (Delsbo Forngård) every year.

Villages

Research conducted in 2005 revealed that Delsbo have the highest density of villages in Sweden. Approximately 104 different villages are scattered around the Delsbo community, among them the villages Ava, Johannesberg, Loppet, Norrberg, Norrväna, Oppsjö, Sannäs, Stenbo, Vitterarv and Västanäng. A local newspaper-reporter described Delsbo as a place with "a village behind every tree". The population of the Delsbo villages range from one person to a couple of hundred.

Dialect

The local dialect is known as Dellboskan. It is a Norrland

Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine provinces. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g...

ian dialect with some Norwegian attributes.

Examples:

• Hän ä'nt sa ugalin = Det är inte så illa (It isn't (too) bad)
• Dellenbiggda = Dellenbygden (The Dellen area).

Notable natives

• Jörgen Brink
  Jörgen Brink
  Jörgen Brink is a Swedish cross-country skier and biathlete who has competed since 1994. He earned three bronze medals at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme .Brink's best finish at the Winter Olympics was a 24th in the individual sprint in 2002...
  
   (cross-country skier)
• David Johansson
  David Johansson (skier)
  David Johansson, called 'Dalle', is a Swedish cross-country skier who won the 38th Vasaloppet ski race in 1961. After his own career, David Johansson coached the successful Swedish skier Thomas Magnusson.-References:...
  
   (cross-country skier)
• Thomas Magnusson
  Thomas Magnusson
  Thomas Magnusson is a former Swedish cross-country skier who competed during the 1970s. He won three medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including golds in the 30 km and the 4 × 10 km and a bronze in the 50 km...
  
  (cross-country skier)

External links

• Listen to the Delsbo dialect