
Holidaying Norwegians making the short hop from the mainland now occupy some of the simple wooden huts built to house fishermen.

Once the people who came here were at the mercy of nature, but now they rush to embrace it. Morten Nilsen is a fifth-generation fisherman and joined his father’s trawler at age 15 – during summer months he takes visitors out to see the Moskenesstraumen Until the first rorbuer (fishermen’s cottages) were built here in 1120, Lofoten fishermen used to sleep beneath their upturned vessels before flipping them over for a day at sea. Towers of granite loom over these insubstantial red and yellow structures, which are scattered along the water’s edge like Lego bricks tossed aside by a petulant giant.īut these modest homes are palatial when compared with those of the islands’ first inhabitants. The tiny wooden fishermen’s huts that cling to the shore of Norway’s Lofoten Islands look too flimsy to survive in this prehistoric landscape. In this piece from 2010, writer Orla Thomas visits Norway’s Lofoten Islands to find that the surrounding Arctic waters are far more than a scenic backdrop – the sea is the islands’ lifeblood, a source of great wealth and unforgettable stories.
DRAUGEN GHOST ARCHIVE

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