Mostraumen
Narrow tidal strait with racing currents, opened by a great flood and ringed by ancient rock carvings.
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This guide to Mostraumen, the narrow tidal strait at the head of the Osterfjord near Bergen, begins with the people of Modalen hauling their boats upstream on ropes, and with the December night in seventeen forty-three when the landscape changed. It touches a county governor's warning notice, the dredgers of the early nineteen hundreds, and boats carved into the rock here long before any of them. Best heard on deck as the boat slips into the narrows.
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