Meanings
proper noun
- A town and municipality in Ofoten district, Nordland, Norway.
In the early spring the war took on a new aspect with the German invasions of Denmark and Norway on April 9, hinging largely on the export of iron ore from the Norwegian Atlantic port of Narvik, at the western end of the Swedish Lapland iron ore railway.
1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629
Origin
- Old NorseKnarravík
- EnglishNarvik
Originally a Norwegian farm name; from Old Norse Knarravík or *Njarðarvík
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