Tronfjellet or just Tron (official form on maps: Tronden) is a prominent mountain close to Alvdal

Alvdal

Alvdal is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Alvdal....

, Hedmark

Hedmark

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

, 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...

. It lies on the border to Tynset

Tynset

Tynset is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tynset.-Name:...

. There is a toll road to the summit open in the summer built while installing a broadcasting antenna in the 1960's, being Norway's second highest road.

The Indian philosopher Swami Sri Ananda Acharya lived on the mountain for large periods of his life.

The name

The name is the finite form of trond m (Norse þróndr) 'hog

Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...

'. (It is common in Norway to compare the shape of a mountain with an animal.)