Him: *complements Norway* Norwegians: "Ah, I see ur a man of superb intellect as well" Edit: It appears that over a thousand individuals of high intellectual aptitude has made the choice of liking my comment. I am truly honored.
A "fiskekort" is a permit to fish a certain number of fish of a specified minimum size in lakes/fjords/fresh water lakes. It's a measure put in place to solve an issue with overfishing.
Norway is split into fylker, there are 11 of these, and those are then split into kommuner, so a kommune can be quite small. Every major city is it's own kommune and Oslo is also it's own Fylke. Fiskekort means fishing license.
Note: there used to be 19 fylker, but in 2019 and 2020 many of these «merged» into even bigger fylker (making 11 fylker in total). Same thing happened to some kommuner. Many of these locations aren’t recently shot, which means that signs etc. adressing the fylker or the kommuner may be irrelevant, as all the fylker - and some of the kommuner - that merged got new names.
@@GeoWizard No, no don't apologise. I just thought it was a bit funny, but I didn't mean to take anything away from the video. I appreciate the upload.
@@nicolasgomez5207 Yes he is. I hope he didn't take my comment offensive I didn't mean to sound rude or anything. I just thought the situation was funny.
@@lsnbr1628 Ain't too sure about that. :D Though Norway is a really nice place nature wise, it can get quite expensive sometimes. And it would take probably several months to complete that on food.
@@haavard230 Nei. Navnet mitt kommer imidlertid fra en gård på Sørlandet som heter Sandnes. Vanlig navn rundt om i Norge. Jeg har grovt sett alltid bodd i Trondheim.
I was just re-watching some of your 10 country challenges and got an idea for a new format. "No Map Zoom Challenge" where you try to get the highest score possible and you can move around in the street view but what you can't do is zoom in on the map. To make it more replayable/easier you could also be allowed to zoom in until the neighbouring countries are only just visible. Just a random thought, thanks for the awesome videos and cheers from Finland!
The Bike sign said Share the road. As many cars etc gets angry at the ppl cycling. That being said.. I Love you, and your videos. Cant wait for another cross attempt. Even if its wales again. I have watched it 2 times now. And will not watch before 1\4-2\4 a year has passed to watch again. Keep it up.
Hehe, this is actually quite enjoyable considered that i am from Norway :P First time on your channel, but I found this really cool! :D Fun fact if you did not know this before: Place names and roads in Norway originate in old Norwegian expressions about how the terrain is around. If there is an "Eid (s)", this means that you are on a low and / or narrow land area between two water bodies :D
When you tried to pronounce things in Norwegian, it made me chuckle :D Would be really great to see you try this again (and hopefully get the full score)
6:34 I drove that road today, from Eresfjorden to Molde in the north-west coast of norway :D Beautiful place with lots of steep mountains and deep fjords :) Classic Norway. The name of that steep mountain you mentioned is Goksøyra.
This is insane. I literally live 15 minutes away from Eresfjord, in Eidsvåg. A small but beautiful place. I’m unbelievably startstruck right now wow. When i saw you made a video about Norway, i had a small hope that you might get a location within a couple of hours where i live, but this. Just wow.
Big GeoNerd (and fan) from Norway here. You did well, buddy! I could watch you geoing about all night. Only sucks that I got work at 8 am. But the heck!
Watching this after you’ve posted the straight line through Norway challenge! You did indeed get the chance to cut through that beautifully still water :)
Not always the case, but often the woods on the houses are horizontal along the coastline (west->west/north) and vertical around when you get about halfway east on the mountain
I'm so happy that Bygland and Valle got in on this video. I used to live in Valle, but moved to Bygland. My dad's reaction to that was really funny as well xD
It's so entertaining watching you do this, with the "handicap" of not knowing the language, and other stuff Norwegians generally know. I've actually biked 3/4 of these places. Langeid is the exception, though I immidiately knew where to search when the kommune (municipality) signs turned up. I basicly know all the kommunes of Norway (around 428 until 2020. They are severley reduced in numbers now), and I'm actually collecting them by biking around the country. It's a weird hobby, but it's my hobby.
I love how my hometown were one of the first things you zoomed in at! You have probably 30 times more viewers in this video than the whole population of that town.
Indeed it looks perfect for kayaking. On my bucket list is to kayak paddle the entire Norwegian coast (I'm Norwegian). I expect to use several months, or even a year if I don't rush it and paddle the fjords in/out. Haven't thought about it too much (as I'd take the time I need) so it's just a wild estimate. Oh and never thought about meticolously looking for roads and that stuff. When doing these, I'd just look at the environment, topography, stuff like that lol
Nice attempt. You did better than I would have, and I live here. It's a pretty country, but a lot of it can look very similar. I was certain the last one was across Dovre or somewhere around there.
Norway is very beautiful place. Last summer I made a road trip with my friend and drive thru Finland to north Norway with old volvo 940. Went to nordkapp and then south along the sea. across of Sweden to stockholm and there take a cruise ship back to Finland. Never seen a single mountain with my own eyes so seeing those with deep fjords was thruly breathtaking. 4500km trip with old volvo, no problem.
Fiskekort is a "Fishing Card", basically you buy the right to fish in rivers from the owners, limited by time. Unsure if anyone actually issues physical cards anymore though.
Round 2: I recognized that vertical mountain near Eresfjord right away! I can recommend to everyone, norwegian and foreign, to go visit Eikesdalen. One of the most beautiful places in Norway, that few actually know about. ;)
Hey man I'm from New Zealand and I absolutely love whenever you mention in your videos that you could be there. Would be so cool for you to try a perfect score on a New Zealand map
I just wanna say I love your channel. I've been sort of binge watching for the last few weeks now. I got a few videos of yours recommended to me by yotuube several times but for some reason I didnt watch them for quite some time. Well, now I;m here and I'm so glad this channel exists, it's amazing :)
8:46 that sign means «Share the road» as biking along the fjord is popular, and few car drivers dont like slow traffick. 16:31 that sign says «Kommune» what means «municipality». And we have only have 356 municipality as of jan, 2020. So that sign is very good information, it can locate region of the country you are in. Most municipality have an icon of a shield, with something symbolic inside. So the sign means «This is the start of Bygland municipality»
Look into Iceland, nobody has the perfect score. I've been trying for a while. It's bugged where many positions aren't on the road but like in the ocean. So even if you click perfectly on the road, you'll lose points because the actual point is not there.
The small signs will tell you exactly how far you are from the start of the road, or something like that. But I'm not sure where they count the start. Maybe from the last turn. I think they are there to help you figure out exactly where you are, for car trouble or other emergencies. Please like so he can see and use it for next time.
It's how far you are from the start of the "hovedparsell". The whole road network is split into sections around 10-20km long, usually split roads at crossroads or turns.They're only used by road maintenance crews and even then that way of organizing the roads was retired 1st of January this year. Source: I work on the app that road crews use these days instead of measuring the number of meters since the last such sign.
31:00 I was like "he is looking for everything but not on the most important thing, the curvature of the street"; you could have easily saw that it does not correlate but I can fully understand that you were focussed on other things.
And also that "stream" he was going by was like a trickle or a puddle at the side of the road, but the spot he picked on the map looked like a much larger body of water.
show the nice place in the north of Norway. You go to Bodø, then you take the boat to Å in Lofoten, many high great mountains here, and you can stay in a house we call it in norwegian "Rorbu", its a place the fishermen have their boats , In Tromsø we have also great mountains with snow on the top, we also have a church we call "Ishavskatedralen," we have a choir and we got to sing there, great akustic, its a lot to see here in Norway
The place name Nordskag and Nordskaget, is (as far as I know) the same place. When a word/place name ends on "en" or "et" (or some times "a") it's usually the definite article (similar to English "the"). Usually the definite article is used locally and in speach, while omitting the definite article is more typical in formal settings and in writing. So when doing this map game in Scandinavia you can usually assume that "Granmo" and "Granmoen" is the same place. (BTW: The differences between "-en", "-et" and "-a" is the nouns gender. Yep, we have that silly system.)
I recognized the one in Bygland almost straight away. I drove past there a few weeks ago. I'm quite surprised I managed considering I've only driven there once and it's mainly forest and mountains. I remember thinking "Besteland" and "Øvre Besteland" were quite amusing since they translate to "best land" and "upper best land"
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Him: *complements Norway*
Norwegians: "Ah, I see ur a man of superb intellect as well"
Edit: It appears that over a thousand individuals of high intellectual aptitude has made the choice of liking my comment. I am truly honored.
love em compliments
Akkuratt det jeg tenkte inni meg.
420 i cant like
@@danielmartinsen839 if we stop st 420...
How will we ever reach 69 420??
The fjord part looks boring but it’s probably because im from norway
Yes, it's definitely the village of "Fishing Permit".
Ah yes, my favourite Norwegian town, fishing permit. Such a great town 😂
I mean, Fiskå is a village south of Stavanger soooo.
That means fish-river though
A "fiskekort" is a permit to fish a certain number of fish of a specified minimum size in lakes/fjords/fresh water lakes.
It's a measure put in place to solve an issue with overfishing.
Jordtiger what does?
This man can tell my address from the grass of my lawn
I like your channel
Interesting channel....
I dont know if i like it or no
@@springy06 lol
I watched two of your videos, and was really looking forward to see you put your finger in kim joung uns mouth. But you didnt.
ur channel has the best content helped me get out of boredness for an hour, thank you.
i love how he pronounced "fiskekort" like "fiskekåt" which would mean "fishinghorny"
or "horny for fish"
Cant wait to get out the and start fishing! I'm so horny for that fishyfish xD
he said court, he even said "probably a fishing area" and court is kind of an "area".
@@EirikXL but it's "kort", not court. Kort means card. A fishing card.
Though I'm guessing you already know that since your name looks Norwegian.
@@Borrelaas or that, yes ;)
"look how still that water is. look how vertical that is."
*excited geography noises*
Instead of calling that view as how poetic, or beautiful; he acknowledged that view and mountain with vertical attribution LOL
Norway is split into fylker, there are 11 of these, and those are then split into kommuner, so a kommune can be quite small. Every major city is it's own kommune and Oslo is also it's own Fylke.
Fiskekort means fishing license.
Kommune = municipality. Example: Ålesund Kommune
Fylke = county. Example: Møre Og Romsdal
Now we know that the Norwegians were the commies all along.
Note: there used to be 19 fylker, but in 2019 and 2020 many of these «merged» into even bigger fylker (making 11 fylker in total). Same thing happened to some kommuner. Many of these locations aren’t recently shot, which means that signs etc. adressing the fylker or the kommuner may be irrelevant, as all the fylker - and some of the kommuner - that merged got new names.
@@heyho2043 And no one complained about the mergers, thankfully.
hey ho the merging on the east coast was just confusing
I love how Langeid was already visible at 19:41 , but he didn't even glance and immediately zoomed in and searched for almost 5 minutes. Bless him.
Apologies. That does tend to happen to me more than it should.
@@GeoWizard No, no don't apologise. I just thought it was a bit funny, but I didn't mean to take anything away from the video. I appreciate the upload.
Tomee my god he’s so pure apologizing and everything when I couldn’t spot my house on a map
@@nicolasgomez5207 Yes he is. I hope he didn't take my comment offensive I didn't mean to sound rude or anything. I just thought the situation was funny.
I was yelling at the screen for a while :D
Tom: compliments my country
Me: blushes
hahaha
it looks amazing, wish hed check out new zealand
@@vidsbymills yes he def should
Ah yes me too bror
Enig
Finally Norway!! Love it! If you're ever doing a straight line across Norway, I'll join you.
But S/N and not E/W of course. :D
Im joining in too
@@Maceexplorer would pay for that :D
@@lsnbr1628 Ain't too sure about that. :D Though Norway is a really nice place nature wise, it can get quite expensive sometimes.
And it would take probably several months to complete that on food.
Good luck with a straight line here, impossible. Han kommer seg ikke over alle fjellene.
Thanks for doing Norway :)
:) hei Sander
Hei alle sammen
@@emiliebentzen 05 🥶
Am Norwegian
@@11ingen76 bra engeslk
The Gods of GeoGuessr:
"Dude we can't let him pass Norway on his first try, he's gotten three right already!"
"Fine, bring out the Finnmark."
Nahh, plassen ingen veit om. Leka
@@hxezmad7023 hvor er leka hahahaha
@@peppapig3584 Ingen vet, det er stedet du ender opp etter å ha mistet bevisstheten fordi du drakk for mye.
Loved watching this! Looking forward to the next attempt Tom 😊!
Hello There
Benjamin Pujol General kenobi!
I’m a huge fan and moving my life to Norway in 2 days!! Love it.. thanks so much for doing what you’re doing mate.. you’re so awesome
How is life in Norway treating you?
Log234 going awesome thanks!! I love it!!
I am from norway
One my favourite countries to visit. The fjord scenery is downright epic
Anyone here after this legend conquered it in a straight line?
"I'm jealous of how flat that water is ... in a kayaking sense"
Lovely sentence. 😂
Egil sandnes! Er du fra sandnes???
nei
@@haavard230 Nei. Navnet mitt kommer imidlertid fra en gård på Sørlandet som heter Sandnes. Vanlig navn rundt om i Norge. Jeg har grovt sett alltid bodd i Trondheim.
Here's to hoping he never gets a perfect score so has to do Norway every time.
Norway sucks hope he gwts full score
Pun aniMagnet wtf? Why
@@Sghgyv probably jealous lol
Pun aniMagnet wher are you from , Norway is the best country
Eirik Wathne lol he’s probably from sweden
As a Nowegian subscriber I’ve been waiting for this video for so long. Thank you!🇳🇴
I remember when you did the Netherlands and literally started in front of my home
I honestly love to watch these before bed because Tom’s voice is to calm.
Been watching your videos lately, and its strange to come home today and find you browsing around my home place! Keep it up, Tom.
In Norway, roads go on for ages thru beautiful places without junctions or towns
Too true
Been subscribed for a long time, and I am so pleased you are now getting the recognition on RUclips finally. Pleased for you bud.
I’m a norwegian fan. Thanks for doing this, love your channel.
I'm a Norwegian, thanks for being a fan.
Much love from Norway and would love to see more straight-line trip (Love the lake vyrnwy reference at 7:38)
hes releasing one July 5th
I was just re-watching some of your 10 country challenges and got an idea for a new format.
"No Map Zoom Challenge" where you try to get the highest score possible and you can move around in the street view but what you can't do is zoom in on the map.
To make it more replayable/easier you could also be allowed to zoom in until the neighbouring countries are only just visible.
Just a random thought, thanks for the awesome videos and cheers from Finland!
Well played!
Kongsfjordfjellet (literally translates to "The king's fjord mountain) is a hard place to navigate:)
Hi, are you Norwegian?
The Bike sign said Share the road. As many cars etc gets angry at the ppl cycling. That being said.. I Love you, and your videos. Cant wait for another cross attempt. Even if its wales again. I have watched it 2 times now. And will not watch before 1\4-2\4 a year has passed to watch again. Keep it up.
Hehe, this is actually quite enjoyable considered that i am from Norway :P First time on your channel, but I found this really cool! :D
Fun fact if you did not know this before: Place names and roads in Norway originate in old Norwegian expressions about how the terrain is around. If there is an "Eid (s)", this means that you are on a low and / or narrow land area between two water bodies :D
I love that this Norway geo-guesser came out on our first day of summer break!
Our er break started a month ago (finland)
My school ende a week ago (Norway)
My last school day is today.(Norway)
Norway is so beautiful, a country high on my bucket list. I've been to the country's pavilion at Epcot which is nice
I know some cuban ladies in Oslo..According to them there is a shortage of cuban men...
1 + 1 = 2
I would recommend visiting Trøndelag and avoid the Oslo area if you want to see Norwegian nature
You don't come to Norway to see Oslo. Then you can just travel to any city. Visit Bergen or Trondheim if you want to see a Norwegian city.
When you tried to pronounce things in Norwegian, it made me chuckle :D Would be really great to see you try this again (and hopefully get the full score)
I love when you go places where i have been hundreds of times 😆 really fun to watch while im practically ripping my hair out ❤️ love the content
Me crossing my fingers that you mess it up towards the end so we can see another video, and so it happens.
Damn... Norway is gorgeous. I'd love to visit one day!
My pic is Bergen, Norway. Would highly recommend it to anyone!
He’s so calming I literally can fall asleep watching these vids
his voice is just calming to listen to, i would sleep to this
perfect video to watch while drinking my morning coffee on my birthday. cheers man, keep up the good videos
6:34 I drove that road today, from Eresfjorden to Molde in the north-west coast of norway :D Beautiful place with lots of steep mountains and deep fjords :) Classic Norway. The name of that steep mountain you mentioned is Goksøyra.
One of the most beautiful countries in the world you never realized was actually beautiful. Norway is amazing!
This is insane. I literally live 15 minutes away from Eresfjord, in Eidsvåg. A small but beautiful place. I’m unbelievably startstruck right now wow. When i saw you made a video about Norway, i had a small hope that you might get a location within a couple of hours where i live, but this. Just wow.
Big GeoNerd (and fan) from Norway here. You did well, buddy! I could watch you geoing about all night. Only sucks that I got work at 8 am. But the heck!
Watching this after you’ve posted the straight line through Norway challenge! You did indeed get the chance to cut through that beautifully still water :)
Not always the case, but often the woods on the houses are horizontal along the coastline (west->west/north) and vertical around when you get about halfway east on the mountain
Happy to see that you came to Norway in this series - and even more happy that we will get two videos! :D
I enjoyed watching you explore our country :) Cant wait for the next one :D
I'm so happy that Bygland and Valle got in on this video. I used to live in Valle, but moved to Bygland. My dad's reaction to that was really funny as well xD
Norway is so incredibly beautiful. Spent a couple of weeks around Trondheim a few years ago and I've never seen anything like it.
This guy is the 'I recognize that bedrock block see you soon.' of Earth.
"Looks how vertical that is" more clear words of admiration have never been spoken
It's so entertaining watching you do this, with the "handicap" of not knowing the language, and other stuff Norwegians generally know. I've actually biked 3/4 of these places. Langeid is the exception, though I immidiately knew where to search when the kommune (municipality) signs turned up.
I basicly know all the kommunes of Norway (around 428 until 2020. They are severley reduced in numbers now), and I'm actually collecting them by biking around the country. It's a weird hobby, but it's my hobby.
It's nice to tour Norway with you, what a lovely country
the fact u actually prononce the places very well just amazes me
Thanks for doing Norway! You did better than I could do and I live there
"Nothing in a city, really" defines the entirety of Norway
I think your voice is just really soothing for some reason
YEESSS! I have been waiting for this!
I'm one of those people that you mentioned at the beginning lol
I love how my hometown were one of the first things you zoomed in at! You have probably 30 times more viewers in this video than the whole population of that town.
Fiskekort directly translates to fishing card. It was a small shop that sells fishing license for the area.
Indeed it looks perfect for kayaking.
On my bucket list is to kayak paddle the entire Norwegian coast (I'm Norwegian). I expect to use several months, or even a year if I don't rush it and paddle the fjords in/out. Haven't thought about it too much (as I'd take the time I need) so it's just a wild estimate.
Oh and never thought about meticolously looking for roads and that stuff. When doing these, I'd just look at the environment, topography, stuff like that lol
World felt small when you zoomed right into my hometown on the map in the beginning :P
I love 10 sec diverse world games but the reason i subbed to this channel was this kind of videos
I immediately recognized the third one. Beautiful and not so full of tourists.
Nice attempt. You did better than I would have, and I live here. It's a pretty country, but a lot of it can look very similar. I was certain the last one was across Dovre or somewhere around there.
I am really new here, but I'm impressed by your channel and your skills, can't wait to catch you live on twitch! I love Geoguessr so much
You know what I’m thinking?
A straight line mission across somewhere in Norway is pretty feasible.
It's really cold and rainy in the slim parts.
Have thought about this myself.. Problem seems to be Mountains
Its only 6km across at the smallest part xd
@@gh-ev9vi if you want to cheat i am guessing nordkapp or lindnes might be just a few meters as well... but that would contain mountains :p
Can u read the future
Norway is very beautiful place. Last summer I made a road trip with my friend and drive thru Finland to north Norway with old volvo 940. Went to nordkapp and then south along the sea. across of Sweden to stockholm and there take a cruise ship back to Finland. Never seen a single mountain with my own eyes so seeing those with deep
fjords was thruly breathtaking. 4500km trip with old volvo, no problem.
Would love to see you try New Zealand; pretty small country here but should still be a challenge, plus there's always a ton of lovely scenery :)
How howww im watching a guy searching for places for 30 minutes haha. Love it. Cheers from Argentina, next time try there :D
Hah, I discovered your channel yesterday, and now you're doing Norway. Perfect timing.
When seeing the mountains and fjords:
Others: "WOW!"
Norwegians: "meh...."
Meh
Meh I’ve seen better
Meh
I'm Norwegian and i *do* say WOW! Cause our mountains and fjords are beautiful!
You didn’t leave Valle, you entered it
Fiskekort is a "Fishing Card", basically you buy the right to fish in rivers from the owners, limited by time. Unsure if anyone actually issues physical cards anymore though.
Fishing license*
@@benixmo fishing permit*
Round 2: I recognized that vertical mountain near Eresfjord right away! I can recommend to everyone, norwegian and foreign, to go visit Eikesdalen. One of the most beautiful places in Norway, that few actually know about. ;)
God I love Norway so much. Norway and Switzerland are my absolutely favorite countries. Greetings from Ukraine.
Hey man I'm from New Zealand and I absolutely love whenever you mention in your videos that you could be there. Would be so cool for you to try a perfect score on a New Zealand map
Lol I suddenly remember that me and my family drove trough Eresfjord on a road trip while watching this.
Love watching these videos.
I just wanna say I love your channel. I've been sort of binge watching for the last few weeks now. I got a few videos of yours recommended to me by yotuube several times but for some reason I didnt watch them for quite some time. Well, now I;m here and I'm so glad this channel exists, it's amazing :)
Please do sweden too!! You've done finland and norway on either side now, we're jealous!!
Sweden isn't important! He might just get Corona by looking at the Swedish map as well.
I think he did sweden already
I always look forward to these kinds of videos
8:46 that sign means «Share the road» as biking along the fjord is popular, and few car drivers dont like slow traffick.
16:31 that sign says «Kommune» what means «municipality». And we have only have 356 municipality as of jan, 2020. So that sign is very good information, it can locate region of the country you are in. Most municipality have an icon of a shield, with something symbolic inside. So the sign means «This is the start of Bygland municipality»
I'd love to see you tackle Australia. It's a super diverse and very big country that will definitely give you a challenge
Tusen takk, for all the kind words about my country!
Haha starting on my tiny island could not be a more difficult beginning xD Good job finding it
He knows my country better than I do
"Well, good luck finding it again"
*doesn't even pause to take a breath*
"There it is!"
I`ve been waiting for "Perfect score in Russia" a long time ,I think , it`d really hard
"Perfect score in Norway" is just the training
the issue is that urban places and rural places looks the same in russia
@@skate211 And it's huge!
Look into Iceland, nobody has the perfect score. I've been trying for a while. It's bugged where many positions aren't on the road but like in the ocean. So even if you click perfectly on the road, you'll lose points because the actual point is not there.
I hate iceland.
The small signs will tell you exactly how far you are from the start of the road, or something like that.
But I'm not sure where they count the start. Maybe from the last turn. I think they are there to help you figure out exactly where you are, for car trouble or other emergencies.
Please like so he can see and use it for next time.
I just checked, and it is exactly right, the first sign you saw said (890 14km) and it was exactly 14 km from the last turn.
It's how far you are from the start of the "hovedparsell". The whole road network is split into sections around 10-20km long, usually split roads at crossroads or turns.They're only used by road maintenance crews and even then that way of organizing the roads was retired 1st of January this year.
Source: I work on the app that road crews use these days instead of measuring the number of meters since the last such sign.
@@gnaskar might still he helpful 👍
They are often used for construction planning, to pin point exactly where the construction is happening
31:00 I was like "he is looking for everything but not on the most important thing, the curvature of the street"; you could have easily saw that it does not correlate but I can fully understand that you were focussed on other things.
And also that "stream" he was going by was like a trickle or a puddle at the side of the road, but the spot he picked on the map looked like a much larger body of water.
As a norwegian this is extremely fascinating to watch!
And holy shit Eidsvåg is literally 10 minutes from where I grew up lol
"am i filming?"
"yes i am"
Harald Baldr comes to mind immediately
thank you for doing Norway!
Im from norway and my grandoarents live around a mountian area its very beautiful viwe from the road we are driving on when we are visiting them
show the nice place in the north of Norway. You go to Bodø, then you take the boat to Å in Lofoten, many high great mountains here, and you can stay in a house we call it in norwegian "Rorbu", its a place the fishermen have their boats , In Tromsø we have also great mountains with snow on the top, we also have a church we call "Ishavskatedralen," we have a choir and we got to sing there, great akustic, its a lot to see here in Norway
The place name Nordskag and Nordskaget, is (as far as I know) the same place. When a word/place name ends on "en" or "et" (or some times "a") it's usually the definite article (similar to English "the"). Usually the definite article is used locally and in speach, while omitting the definite article is more typical in formal settings and in writing.
So when doing this map game in Scandinavia you can usually assume that "Granmo" and "Granmoen" is the same place.
(BTW: The differences between "-en", "-et" and "-a" is the nouns gender. Yep, we have that silly system.)
I recognized the one in Bygland almost straight away. I drove past there a few weeks ago. I'm quite surprised I managed considering I've only driven there once and it's mainly forest and mountains.
I remember thinking "Besteland" and "Øvre Besteland" were quite amusing since they translate to "best land" and "upper best land"
As a Norwegian, I really love your pronunciation of the town names xD