Daily Ancestorsogn
A sogn is a parish: a district with its own church, usually one part of a larger prestegjeld served by the same priest.
Sogn is the Danish form of the Old Norse sókn, and modern Norwegian also writes sokn. Several sogn made up a prestegjeld, one as the main parish and the others as annexes, so one priest served several churches.
From 1837 to 1950 the sogn was also a unit of local government. In the 1891 census the municipality replaced the parish as the counting district.
As seen in a recordResidence column of a Norwegian church book, 1860s
Bopæl: Bekkelien i Heidal Sogn
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Daily Ancestor. "sogn." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/norwegian/sogn. Last checked 2026-10-28.