Geiranger Legends

As we turned
the corner
to enter the
Geiranger Fjord,
I remembered
my ferry ride
through this
narrow passage
nine years ago.

Back then, Dan and I heard tales how local people used to tether their children and livestock to prevent them from falling over the mountain ledges. We also learned that some farms were so remote, residents needed a ladder to reach their homesteads. When the tax collector came calling, the farmer simply pulled up the ladder and the collector went away empty-handed.


Farther in,
the tales
grew greater.


This feature
called

Hell's Crevice

is believed
to have been carved
by the devil himself

in an effort
to hide from
the sun.




And this
tumbling
cascade
on the
fjord's
northside
is known
as the

Seven
Sisters
Waterfalls.

(Count
seven
sprays.)






Legend has it that
the single large waterfalls
on the fjord's south side
(opposite the Seven Sisters)
is the Suitor Falls.

Because he has proposed
to each sister and
been rejected,
he has taken
to the bottle.

Hence, the falls flows
in a bottle-like shape.




On this Hurtigruten cruise
through the Geiranger Fjord,
two of our ladies spotted
(very near his bottle)
what looks like
the face of
the Seven Sisters' Suitor!


No guide I know
has ever pointed out
this feature in the
Geiranger Legends!



Call it: a new discovery?