Snorum

Snorum is a village, nowadays more like a farm, in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden.

An old road sign, showing the way to abandoned village of Snorum, Jörn, Skellefteå, north Sweden

The village got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum and named five new populated places in the Jörn Parish each after a word in the rhyme. Snipp, Snapp, Hej and Basalorum are four other villages in the vicinity.[1]

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

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