 selbu is a municipality in sÃ¸r-trÃ¸ndelag county, norway. the administrative centre of the municipality is the village of mebonden. other villages in selbu include flora, fossan, hyttbakken, innbygda, selbustrand, tÃ¸mra, and vikvarvet. ==general information== the municipality (originally the parish) of selbu was established on 1 january 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). on 1 january 1901, the eastern part of the municipality was separated to form the new municipality of tydal. this left selbu with 4,607 inhabitants. the borders of selbu have not changed since then. ===name=== the old norse form of the name was selabÃº. the first element is the genitive case of the old name of the lake selbusjÃ¸en (old norse: seli). the last element is bÃº which means "district". (the old name of the lake is probably derived from the word seli which means "harness" since the lake is long and narrow.) ===coat-of-arms=== the coat-of-arms is from modern times; they were adopted on 31 may 1991. the arms show a silver background with three black selburoses, designs which are typical for the patterns used in the local lusekofte (traditional norwegian sweaters) and other woollen garments. home knitting has been a long tradition in the municipality. ===churches=== the [[chu
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