Jøssingfjord

Jøssingfjord is a fjord located within the municipality of Sokndal in south-western Norway.

The fjord is known as the location of the Altmark Incident, where, during WWII, on February 16 1940, the British destroyer Cossak managed to free prisoners taken by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.

During the war, the term Jøssing came to mean a Norwegian patriot, the opposite of a Quisling (or traitor). The origin of this term is ironic: the Norwegian collaborator government tried to neutralize their nickname Quislings by using the Jøssingfjord event to coin a derogatory term Jøssing, referring to anti-nazis. This attempt backfired.

External links

*Satellite view of the Jøssingfjord at Google maps