Skageflå
Although it was abandoned in 1916, Skageflå was once one of the richer goat farms in Geiranger, and had two or three mountain pastures for its animals. The farm was inhabited from the Middle Ages until 1916; it is now a tourist attraction. A rock slide in 1873 destroyed much of the cultivated land. From the fjord, the farm has a difficult uphill hike to get to the farm.
Magdalene Thoresen, Henrik Ibsen's mother-in-law, said of the area:
This fjord is surrounded by the steepest and, one is almost tempted to say, the most preposterous mountains on the entire west coast. It is very narrow and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer and rugged strata almost straight out of the water. Foaming waterfalls plunge into the fjord from jagged peaks. There are, however, a few mountain farms here, and of these one or two have such hazardous access, by paths that wind around steep precipices, and by bridges that are fixed to the mountain with iron bolts and rings, that they bear witness in a most striking way to the remarkable powers of invention which the challenges of nature have developed in man.
The name
The first element is the genitive of skagi ('outstanding headland') - related to the famous Danish place Skagen. The last element is flå ('field in a mountain side').
References
- ^ Store norske leksikon. "Skageflå" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2010-10-10.
- ^ "Sightseeing". Retrieved 2010-10-10.
- ^ "Skageflå" (in Norwegian). Storfjordens Venner. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
- ^ History about Bringe-Ragnhild. "History about Bringe-Ragnhild". Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
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