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Nidaros

British  
/ ˈniːdaroːs /

noun

  1. the former name (1930–31) of Trondheim

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

King Magnus 214 was afterwards stricken with a sickness, the rift-worm sickness, and when he had lain abed for some time died he at Nidaros, and there was buried.

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Hearn, Ethel Harriet

They went all the way north to Throndhjem, to the town of Nidaros.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

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