Ruud Streefkerk

Aurland is a municipality in the Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway, located on the Aurlandsfjord. Via the Lærdaltunnel, which is, with its 24.5 km, the longest road tunnel in the world and through a dozen small tunnels with hairpin bends, one steadily rises on the mountain slope, until finally, in one of the turns, a view on the deep and narrow Aurlandsfjord is revealed (under water 962m deep and surrounded by steep mountains up to 1800m altitude). But also on a huge forest of power lines that run into the valley and disfigure the highlands above. There is an ancient story that in prehistoric times a battle was going on between two groups of trolls, causing the land to break into pieces. After Wodan collected the rocks with which they harassed each other in a bag and emptied it over Sweden, he sewed the land together again with these wires. Frankly I think they’re just power lines, providing electricity for e.g. the city of Bergen.