Torghatten
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 Torghatten |
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| height | 258 moh. | |
| location | Torget Island , Norway | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 23 '54 " N , 12 ° 5' 23" E | |
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Torghatten is a mountain near Brønnøysund in Norway with a special geological shape. In the middle it has a hole about 35 meters high and 160 meters long. It was probably caused by the erosion of the sea surf during the ongoing post-glacial land uplift after the glaciers melted from the last glacial period .
Torghatten is located on Torget Island , the largest island in Brønnøy municipality . From its foot you can reach the hole in a 20-30 minute hike and have a great view of the Norwegian archipelago .
The legend of Torghatten
A legend has grown up around the hole in the mountain: The disobedient son of the troll king Vågekallen , Hestmannen , lived in Svolvær . On the other side of the Vestfjord lived the mighty troll king Sulitjelmakongen , who had seven daughters, each wilder than the other. Therefore Sulitjelmakongen sent his daughters to the honorable maiden Lekamøya . One fine evening Hestmannen looked over the Vestfjord and saw Lekamøya taking a bath in Landego fjord and combing her hair. Hestmannen immediately coveted her. In full armor, he dashed across the Vestfjord on his horse. Lekamøya and the seven sisters went on a wild escape. The seven sisters could already imagine taking Hestmannen as a husband and crouched down next to each other at Alstahaug . But Hestmannen did not look at her, as he only had eyes for Lekamøya . However, as this gained more and more lead, he took his bow and shot an arrow at her. However, the king of the Sømnaberge observed this and threw his hat into the path of the arrow. The hat remained shot through on the island of Torgar . Because of the wild hunt, everyone forgot how short the summer nights are in the north and the sun rose and everyone petrified wherever they were sitting or standing: The hat as Torghatten, the seven sisters at Sandnessjøen and Lekamøya on the island of Leka , where they shelter had been looking for.
Plane crash
On the evening of May 6, 1988, a Dash 7 of the Norwegian airline Widerøe with the identification LN-WFN had an accident on its domestic flight from Namsos to Brønnøysund in thick fog and poor visibility on the flank of the mountain. All 36 people on board, 33 passengers and three crew members, were killed.
Solar phenomenon
Jonathan Christian Wilhelm Ritter (1775–1821), geologist and botanist, wrote in 1806 about the mountain with the rock gate: It got its name because the tip is similar to a human head with a hat on. You can see a single eye underneath, as it were ... through which you can see the sun. He did not record the time of the solar event. The Greek navigator Pytheas reported around 330 BC. By the inhabitants of "Thules" for showing him the place ... where the sun goes to sleep . Pythea's records place the site on the coast of the 65th parallel. There are reflections Torghatten could be this sleeping place in the sun. In 2014 the Norwegian Harald Warholm from Brüsund received the first photos of the event. The solar phenomenon takes place in early February and early November.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Christian Wilhelm Ritter, “Description of Strange Mountains, Rocks and Volcanoes: A Contribution to the Physical History of the Earth. Berge und Felsen, Volume 1 ”, 1806, pp. 335–336
- ↑ Ralf Herold: The track of light - project of the gods - sun sanctuaries of Upper Lusatia. Sohland / Spree observatory, Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-7519-5892-9
- ↑ Nordland Siste om corona virus i Nordland, amateur photographers har ventet tre år på dette sjeldne blinkskuddet, November 10, 2014