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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 World War II, on February 16, 1940, the British destroyer ''Cossack'' managed to free prisoners taken by the ''Admiral Graf Spee'' from the German tanker ''Altmark''. 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, as it was quickly appropriated as a positive term by the Norwegian populace, and in 1943 the word was banned from official use. As a consequence, the best known illegal Norwegian newspaper got its name from the same incident: ''Jøssingposten'' (The Jøssingpost). ==External links== *(3D satellite view of the ''Jøssingfjord'' at Live Virtual Earth 3D ) *(Satellite view of the ''Jøssingfjord'' at Google maps ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jøssingfjord」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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