Rovde is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Rovde included the area on both the north and south sides of the Rovdefjorden. The northern area on the island of Gurskøy

Gurskøy

Gurskøy is an island in the municipalities of Sande and Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island has an area of . The villages of Gursken, Larsnes, and Moldtustranda are located on the island...

 is currently part of the municipality of Sande

Sande, Møre og Romsdal

Sande is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Larsnes on the island of Gurskøya.-General information:...

 and the southern area is part of Vanylven

Vanylven

Vanylven is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is Fiskåbygd. Other villages include Syvde, Rovdane, and Myklebost.-General information:...

. The municipality had an area of 53 square kilometres (20.5 sq mi).

History

The municipality of Rovde was established on 1 January 1905 when the new municipality of Rovde was split off from the municipality of Sande

Sande, Møre og Romsdal

Sande is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Larsnes on the island of Gurskøya.-General information:...

. Rovde had an initial population of 610, and included the villages of Larsnes

Larsnes

Larsnes is the administrative centre of the municipality of Sande in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the southwest side of the island of Gurskøy, about east of the island of Kvamsøya, southwest of the village of Gursken, and about southwest of Ulsteinvik.The village has a...

 and Rovdane

Rovdane

Rovdane is a village in the municipality of Vanylven in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located along the Rovdefjorden, about north of Myklebost, northeast of the municipal center of Fiskåbygd, and west of the village of Volda...

. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Rovde was dissolved. The southern district of Rovde (Rovdestranda) with 436 inhabitants was merged into the neighboring Vanylven

Vanylven

Vanylven is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is Fiskåbygd. Other villages include Syvde, Rovdane, and Myklebost.-General information:...

 municipality. The rest of Rovde, on Gurskøy

Gurskøy

Gurskøy is an island in the municipalities of Sande and Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island has an area of . The villages of Gursken, Larsnes, and Moldtustranda are located on the island...

 island, with 562 inhabitants, was reunited with Sande.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

) is named after the old Rovde farm (Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

: Rauðvin). The first element of the name is Rauð which means "moraine

Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...

" and the last element vin which means "meadow".

Poem

Rovdestranda, by the poet J. Nordhagen, 1928.
English language English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Norwegian language Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
Sailor go from the city towards the north on a brilliant sunny day, steer with courage from the ocean into the fjord, how calm becomes the sea. Then seen are fields—you laugh inside and steer with hand better to see the sky high mountain under heaven, and under them all lies Rovdestranden. From Søvdsnes to Kleiven along the brave way north are tended farms, where the people live. Yes, a finer place you can hardly find than nature's own Rovdestranda.	Seiler du leden fra Stadt imot nord en strålende solskinsdag, styer fra havet mot indre fjord, hvor sjøen får mindre drag. da sees fra baugen—du stirrer i le og skygger med hånden for bedre å se de skyfrie fjell under himmelranden, og under dem lunt ligger Rovdestranden. Fra Søvdsnes til Kleiven langs veien mot nord er velstelte gårder, hvor folket bor. Ja, skjønnere sted du knapt finne kan enn denne naturskjønne Rovdestranda.