Qualla: Majavatn https://qualla.com/majavatn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Majavatn https://qualla.com/majavatn Majavatn: Introduction https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the list of the twenty-four men shot at Falstad in October 1942 and it is not the number that stops you. It is the addresses. Aursletta, Aursletta, Aursletta. Holmen, Holmen, Holmen. Stavassdalen, Stavassdalen, Stavassdalen. Majavatn seven times over. Two Øygårds from the same small place, two Holmens from the same small place, two Liens from the same small place. Grane is a thinly settled municipality in interior Nordland — farms strung along a valley, a church, a railway halt — and over two mornings it lost twenty-four of its men. Whatever else the Majavatn affair was, it was first of all something that happened to a handful of neighbouring households who all knew each other.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Majavatn: A Stop on the Line https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Majavatn today is a village on the eastern shore of Majavatnet, sitting at 320 metres above sea level just west of the boundary of Børgefjell National Park. Two arteries pass straight through it: the E6, Norway's spinal highway, and the Nordland Line. Majavatn Station stands 321....

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-a-stop-on-the-line.mp3 0:06 2 full Majavatn: Weapons Over the Fells https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resistance groups across Helgeland worked with supply operations run out of Britain, tied to the Shetland Bus boat traffic and to the plans gathered under the name Operation Jupiter. Captain Birger E. Sjøberg, who used the alias Nils Berdahl, organised expeditions into the region...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-weapons-over-the-fells.mp3 0:06 3 full Majavatn: What Happened at Tangen https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1942 the Gestapo unravelled part of the Helgeland network. The arrest of a telegraph operator gave them the thread, and it led to Tangen farm. The men there learned that German forces were coming. There was fighting at the farm that autumn; several escaped into the mountains b...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-what-happened-at-tangen.mp3 0:06 4 full Majavatn: Terboven's Week https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. He arrived in Trondheim by train on 5 October. The next morning, red notices declaring civilian martial law went up across the city, covering Trondheim and its neighbours, the whole of Nord-Trøndelag county, and — pointedly — Grane Municipality, hundreds of kilometres north. Curf...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-terbovens-week.mp3 0:06 5 full Majavatn: Two Mornings in the Forest https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 7 October a tribunal convened at Falstad under Gerhard Flesch. Its proceedings were summary. It condemned fifteen men from Grane, and they were shot the following morning. Nine more were condemned on 8 October and shot on 9 October. Thirty-four Norwegians were killed extrajudi...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/d/majavatn-wp/u79d-majavatn-two-mornings-in-the-forest.mp3 0:06 6 full Majavatn: The Trains Still Pass https://qualla.com/majavatn/ Photo credit Frokor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Terboven's calculation was that terror would break the resistance. It did the opposite: over the remaining two and a half years of occupation the Norwegian underground grew better organised, better connected, and harder. That is cold consolation in Grane, where the loss was conce...

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