Talk:Ås, Akershus

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This was so amusing I transferred it to the talk page. If you can provide a published reference, we should restore it:

"The natives of Ås, called “Ås-bønder”, are mostly farmers, and are famous for their strength and stamina. Every weekend they gather at “Smia” and “Bugge'n” (driving there in their John Deere and Lamborghini tractors), drinking their famous home-brew based on potatoes and corn, battling to be the one getting most drunk in least time. These drinking competitions climax every year at “Ås-mart’n”, where everyone meets in a large tent near the town hall for a huge drinking contest, and the winner of this event is celebrated widely. The greatest competitor of all times, Kåre “Kompost” Østgård, actually committed suicide after winning the competition five years in a row, thus leaving himself undefeated.

Ås is sometimes compared to Drøbak and Ski, the neighbor municipals of Ås, but that is a great mistake, because Ås is much better than those two towns. The inhabitants of Drøbak and Ski are dense and stupid and in no comparison with people from Ås, who are beautiful, intelligent and thoughtful."

Looking back after several years, I realize I should have 1) signed my post & 2) warned the vandal whose contribution was so obviously not serious. My only excuse is that if you have no sense of humor, you shouldn't edit Wikipedia. Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 21:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Name [edit] The parish was named after the old Ås farm (Old Norse: Áss), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word áss meaning "mountain ridge". Prior to 1921, the name was spelled Aas.

In Old Norse, áss (or ǫ́ss, ás, plural æsir; feminine ásynja, plural ásynjur) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86sir

The name was spelled Aas, and means a hill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.1.57.57 (talk) 22:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]