place_of_death thomas byberg
Thomas Hedvin Byberg ( 18 September 1916 -- 13 October 1998 ) was a Norwegian speed skater . He represented Hommelvik Idrettslag and Trondhjems Skøiteklub . He was born in Hommelvik . At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St . Moritz , Byberg won a silver medal on 500 m . The time 43 . 2 was one tenth of a second behind his fellow Norwegian team member Finn Helgesen . The silver medal was shared with two Americans , Ken Bartholomew and Bob Fitzgerald . Vikhammer is a village in the municipality of Malvik in Sør - Trøndelag county , ___MASK44___ . The village is located along an arm of the Trondheimsfjord , about east of Hundhammeren and about west of the village of Malvik . All three villages are part of the greater Malvik urban area which has a population ( 2009 ) of 6 , 033 . It is part of the ___MASK16___ populous area in the municipality . Smiskaret or Smiskardet is a village in the municipality of Malvik in Sør - Trøndelag county , ___MASK44___ . The village is located along the Stjørdalsfjorden , an arm of the Trondheimsfjord , about northwest of Hommelvik . Since 2002 , it has been considered a part of the Hommelvik urban area . ___MASK44___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of ___MASK44___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . ___MASK44___ also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and ___MASK12___ ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Sør - Trøndelag is a county comprising the southern portion of the Trøndelag region in ___MASK44___ , bordering ___MASK19___ - Trøndelag , Møre og Romsdal , Oppland and Hedmark . To the west is the Norwegian Sea ( ___MASK18___ ), and to the east is Jämtland in Sweden . The county is separated into a northern and southern part by the Trondheimsfjord . Slightly over 200 , 000 of the county ' s population ( or around 55 %) lives in ___MASK56___ and its suburbs . The Norwegian dialect of the region is Trøndersk . Hommelvik is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Malvik in Sør - Trøndelag county , ___MASK44___ . The village is located at the end of the " Hommelvika ", a bay off of the Trondheimsfjord . It is about southwest of Muruvika , about southeast of Smiskaret , about east of Vikhammer , and about north of Sneisen . The river Homla runs through the village . Malvik is a village and a municipality in Sør - Trøndelag county , ___MASK44___ . It is part of the ___MASK56___ Region . The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik . Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika , Smiskaret , Sneisen , Vikhammer , and Hundhammeren . Homla is a river in the municipality of Malvik in Sør - Trøndelag county , ___MASK44___ . The river begins when it flows out of the lake Foldsjøen and it ends at the Trondheimsfjord at the village of Hommelvik . A bay is a body of water connected to an ___MASK39___ or lake , formed by an indentation of the shoreline . A large bay may be called a " gulf ", a " ___MASK61___ ", a " sound ", or a " bight ". A " cove " is a smaller circular or oval coastal inlet with a narrow entrance ; some coves may be referred to as bays . A " fjord " is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity .