Landegode
Landegode / Landego, comes from Landit goda and means-the good land. The name has probably been used since the Viking Age and is what the Normans call a good name. The original name, Giggerøy or Gygerøy, was not so nice, it comes from the Old Norse word gygr, which means sorceress - and such were feared.
The island has been visited and inhabited by people since Stone Age. There were a lot of farms along its coast but in the middle of 20th most of them were depopulated. We can find there year-round opened store and the smallest school in the Bodø municipality.
The highest peak, Rypdalstind is 802 meters above sea level and that is the peak which characterized the island from the distance.
Landegode is an island what I was documenting during my stay by the coast on the mainland-in the village Kløkstad, in 2021/2022. On the opposite side from the island. Therefor I had very accessible view on the island. During three seasons when weather yearly changes, I made an overview of the visual sense of Landegode. I have never been on that island, even it is far only twenty minutes by boat from the city Bodø, but it is already in my travel wish list.