Experience the impressive collection of traditional wooden boats at the Lofoten Museum.
Visit the boathouse and learn about different types of Nordland boats.
Traditional wooden boats
Experience the impressive collection of traditional wooden boats at the Lofoten Museum.
Visit the boathouse and learn about different types of Nordland boats.
In the year 1282, an outcry is heard in Vágar. Baron Bjarne Erlingsson of Giske has just stood at the thing at Brurberget and said that the Vágabok must be taken out of use. Now it is the National Law that applies.
The National Law is a law book that applied to the whole country, just as Norway's laws do today. It rested on a long and solid legal tradition, in which the thing was central.
Lofoten's history is a story about fish. The population has harvested resources from the sea all year round, while many have also run small farms. But it is the seasonal fishing for skrei that has had the greatest impact on life here along the coast.