Imagine the Force being a gigantic field of energy. That source is actually found on Hardangervidda. Water converted into electric energy – equally important to the Vest- Telemark region and all of southern Norway, as it is for the mountain municipalities of Tokke and Vinje.

«Three Young Men Killed in Fight over Property». This could have been the heading if it had happened today. But the dramatic tale is a legend of long ago. – It still lives on in local stories.

First, you glimpse it on the horizon. Then, as you leave the gravel road behind and start to stride out across the mountain plateau, you hear it: the sound of total tranquillity.

Nearly all the beers brewed by Lindheim Ølkompani contain a dash of unfermented apple juice.

Worshipping of springs and water on Summer Solstice have been part of Pagan traditions in Norway long before Christianity. People believed that water and even dew on the grass acquired special powers that night.