Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Grue farm (Old Norse: Grof(a)), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word grof(a) which means "depression" or "hollow".
Read more about this topic: Grue, Norway, General Information
Famous quotes containing the word name:
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)