A12202 066 200607 Geirangerfjord Skagefl on opposit side

Skageflå is one of a handful of historic mountain farms on the steep mountainsides along the

Geirangerfjorden The Geiranger Fjord ( no, Geirangerfjorden) is a fjord in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located entirely in the Stranda Municipality. It is a branch off the Sunnylvsfjorden, which is a branch off the Storfjorden ...

. It is located in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. Skageflå lies approximately above the

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Förden and East Jutland Fjorde, Germany, ...

. The farm is a 2 to 4 hour walk from the nearby village of Geiranger, and can also be reached with help of a local sightseeing boat (M/S ''Geirangerfjord''). The boat takes passengers to a spot on the fjord just below the farm, from where they face a very steep half-hour climb. ''Coastal Odyssey'', a sea kayaking company, runs guided kayaking tours with interpretation to the farm. ''Active Geiranger'' also does guided kayak trips to the farm as well as water taxi trips to the trail. Directly across the fjord is the old

Knivsflå Knivsflå is one of a handful of historic mountain farms on the steep mountainsides along the Geirangerfjorden. It is located in Stranda Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Actually it was two farms sharing the location, and they ha ...

farm and the Seven Sisters waterfall. Although it was abandoned in 1916, Skageflå was once one of the richer

goat The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the a ...

farms in Geiranger, and had two or three mountain pastures for its animals. The farm was inhabited from the

middle ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

until 1916; it is now a tourist attraction. A rock slide in 1873 destroyed much of the cultivated land. From the fjord, the farm has a difficult uphill hike to get to the farm. Magdalene Thoresen, Henrik Ibsen's mother-in-law, said of the area:

This fjord is surrounded by the steepest and, one is almost tempted to say, the most preposterous mountains on the entire west coast. It is very narrow and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer and rugged strata almost straight out of the water. Foaming waterfalls plunge into the fjord from jagged peaks. There are, however, a few mountain farms here, and of these one or two have such hazardous access, by paths that wind around steep precipices, and by bridges that are fixed to the mountain with iron bolts and rings, that they bear witness in a most striking way to the remarkable powers of invention which the challenges of nature have developed in man.History about Bringe-Ragnhild.

The name

The first element is the genitive of ''skagi'' ('outstanding headland') - related to the famous Danish place

Skagen Skagen () is Denmark's northernmost town, on the east coast of the Skagen Odde peninsula in the far north of Jutland, part of Frederikshavn Municipality in Nordjylland, north of Frederikshavn and northeast of Aalborg. The Port of Skage ...

. The last element is ''flå'' ('field in a mountain side').

References

Stranda Former populated places in Møre og Romsdal Tourist attractions in Møre og Romsdal Historic farms in Norway Farms in Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub