Ostfold

Ostfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other facet of Oslofjord. The county's administrative seat is Sarpsborg. Many production facilities are situated here, inclusive of the world's maximum advanced biorefinery, Borregaard in Sharpsburg. Fredrikstad has shipyards. There are granite mines in Ostfold and stone from those were used by Gustav Vigeland. The county slogan is "The heartland of Scandinavia". The neighborhood dialect is characterized with the aid of its geographical proximity to Sweden. Ostfold is among the kingdom's oldest inhabited areas, with petroglyphs rock drawings and burial mounds for the duration of the place.

In the Viking Age, the vicinity changed into a part of Vingulmark, which in flip was a part of Viken and protected Bahuslen. It turned into partially beneath Danish rule till the time of Harald Fairhair. Later, when Norway become under Danish rule, the Danish king divided the vicinity into many baronies. The barony of Heggen og Froland, which includes the municipalities Askim, Eidsberg and Trogstad, at the beginning belonged to Akershus - however it became transferred to Ostfold in 1768.