Jump to content

Hej

Coordinates: 65°20′40″N 20°01′07″E / 65.34444°N 20.01861°E / 65.34444; 20.01861
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A place name sign in Hej.

Hej is a village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden.

The word Hej is the most common greeting in the Swedish language, and the equivalent of 'hi' in English. The village got its name in the 19th century when a surveyor played with the childish rhyme Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum. Snipp, Snapp, Snorum and Basalorum are four other villages in the vicinity.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Karl Fahlgren: Skellefte sockens historia (1953), p. 80. Printed at Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri AB

65°20′40″N 20°01′07″E / 65.34444°N 20.01861°E / 65.34444; 20.01861