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Nidaros

British  
/ ˈniːdaroːs /

noun

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The method of canonisation was probably new; but the nobles and prelates of England were surely as competent to act in such a matter as the youthful church at Nidaros.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

The king agreed to this, and conferred on him lands eastward at Konungahella, Oslo, Tunsberg, Sarpsborg, Bergen, and north at Nidaros.

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