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Gjesvær
Gjesvær
is an old
fishing village
in
Nordkapp Municipality
in
Finnmark
county,
Norway
. It is the only place in Finnmark known from the
Viking Age
and is mentioned in the
Heimskringla
saga as
Geirsver
. The name comes from the man's name
Geir
, which means "spear".
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