A Summer in Northern Lands

A Summer in Northern Lands page 77 ''their tales of how they made the ascent of the **Slogen* or some other peak. Although the weather looked threatening, after dinner we took stolkjaerres for the drive to Hellesylt. About five kilometers from Oie up the Norangdal there is a lake that was formed May 28, 1908 by a land-slide from the top of the Kjeipen, which dammed up the valley. The pond, formed by the dam is about six hundred and fifty yards long and, as we passed up along its shore, we could see down in the clear water the ruins of several houses, while, coming up out of the depths, at the upper end of the lake, we could see over a hundred yards of the old road. The boy who drove my cart told me he had often passed over this piece of road before the water was there. At Hellesylt we had supper after which we took a steamer for the Geiranger Fjord, noted for its bold cliffs and many waterfalls. The most famous of the latter are the Seven Sisters, that fall from a perpendicular rock over a thousand feet high."