Telemark
59.3333°N 8.5000°E · Q2254
3 English words in this atlas trace back to Telemark. It sits in Norway.
The ski turn is named for a Norwegian county.
Skiers from Telemark developed the technique in the 19th century, and the county's name travelled with it.
Modern skiing was largely worked out by farmers in one Norwegian county.
Sondre Norheim and other skiers from Morgedal in Telemark shaped the waisted skis and heel bindings that made controlled turning possible in the nineteenth century. Alpine technique later locked the heel down and the telemark turn nearly vanished, until a deliberate revival in the 1970s.
A Norwegian county's turn is why ski jumpers still lunge on landing.
Sondre Norheim and other skiers from Telemark shaped the turn in the later nineteenth century, along with the bindings that made it possible. Alpine skiing later locked the heel down, but jumpers are still scored on the telemark landing.