Kyte, Norway


Kyte is a hamlet and basic statistical unit in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located just southeast of the village of Nordheim and west of the village of Klyve. The municipal centre, Vossavangen, is located about to the southwest.
Kyte includes the farms Nedra Kyte to the southwest and Øvre Kyte to the northeast. The settlement is accessible via Norwegian County Road 5388, also known as Kytesvegen.
The settlement was attested as Kytuin in 1303. The name is originally a compound of *Kýt-in; the first element may mean 'hump' or 'rise' and the second element, vin, is a common Old Norse place-name element meaning 'meadow' or 'pasture'.