Lövsele
Lövsele is a village in Lövånger socken in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The village is located by the European route E4 about south of Lövånger. History. Until 1951, the village's name was Kräkånger. "Kräk" is thought to be derived from a dialectal word meaning "sharp angle" or "small bay", and is related to modern Swedish "krok" ("hook") and "krök" ("bend"), while "ånger" in Swedish place names typically means "bay". The name may refer to the bay which historically (around 500AD) stretched from Lövånger to Bureå, forming a sharp angle with what was at the time the Lövånger  Fjard. As cars were becoming commonplace in the 1940s, the name, and that of neighbouring village Kräkångersnoret (now Södra Lövsele), attracted ridicule from visitors due to the modern Swedish associations it suggests: "kräk[as]" means "[to] vomit", "ånger" means "regret", and "snor[et]" means "[the] snot". As a result, the local population expressed their wishes to change the name, and the new name Lövsele was formed from "sele", referring to the nearby lake Selet (the remnants of the fjard from which the earlier name had been derived), and "löv", referring to Lövånger parish.