Skageflå
More than one hundred years have passed since the last farmers left Skageflå. This was once one of Geiranger’s largest and wealthiest farms, with more than one hundred goats, 60 sheep, cattle and a horse. The two-family farm lies in a spectacular location on a ledge. When the people at Skageflå and the other farms were out working their fields or cutting hay on the slopes, they would keep their children indoors or tethered with long ropes to prevent them from falling off the ledge.
The road leading to the farm was long and arduous. For a period during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Skageflå could only be reached by way of a wooden ladder. One day the bailiff was in the area, heading up to Skageflå to collect some taxes that the farmer owed. However, the farmer saw the bailiff approaching and pulled up the ladder. So the bailiff was forced to turn around and go back to Geiranger empty-handed.
Queen Sonja also has a special relationship with this area. She takes an interest in the fjordside farms and loves to hike in the mountains here. For the celebration of their silver wedding in 1993, the royal couple wished to provide their guests with a very special experience of Norway. They invited them to Skageflå, and several dozen members of the European nobility joined the climb up to the old mountain farm where a royal banquet was held, without any pomp and circumstance, but in resplendent surroundings above the glittering fjord and the Seven Sisters.
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