Nordmarka
Vast spruce forest of lakes, ski trails and old crofts, laced with paths open to every walker.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nordmarka, the great forest on Oslo's northern edge, follows a croft called Vestre Hakloa and the man who grew up there. It reaches back to the tenant families who cleared these ridges in the sixteen hundreds, and to an estate held by one family since sixteen forty-nine. At its heart is a question Norwegian law had to answer in court: who gets to own the ground beneath the trees.
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