Meaning of Bjørgvin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Bergen (a port city, municipality, and former county of the county of Vestland, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hordaland; official name: Bergen)
   feminine
2. clipping of Bjørgvin bispedøme (“Diocese of Bjørgvin”)
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine

Examples

“No er stutt á fortelja at sild fekk me, kom heppeleg til Bjørgvin og selde godt.”

Now it is short to say, that we got herring, and it luckily came to Bergen and sold well.

“Halvor Nordhaug vart biskop i Bjørgvin i 2009.”

Halvor Nordhaug became bishop of [the diocese of] Bjørgvin in 2009.