It is located at the Concordia site at Turtle River Lake near Bemidji, Minnesota, United States.

I am responsible and accountable for establishing and maintaining our vibrant Skogfjorden community, where: [2] The Ambassador of Norway, Knut Vollebæk, visited the village in 2003.

Patronage is an affirmation from the Royal Family of Norway of the quality educational programming of Concordia Language Villages.

In 2009, Tove I. Dahl, the dean of Skogfjorden, was named a Knight of the First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway, for the advancement of Norwegian language and culture in the United States.

[4] Dahl is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Tromsø and is married to Curt Rice.