Qualla: Namsvatnet https://qualla.com/namsvatnet en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Namsvatnet https://qualla.com/namsvatnet Namsvatnet: Introduction https://qualla.com/namsvatnet/ The year 1959 gave Namsvatnet two things at once. One was a dam: the lake was regulated for hydroelectric generation, its surface allowed to swing between 454 and 440 metres above sea level, and people living along the shoreline had to move. The other was a chapel — Kristi krybbe, Christ's manger, a small octagonal timber building with brown walls and a turf roof, seating about fifty, designed by Peter Helland-Hansen and standing at the far northern end of the water. The engineers were taking a valley and the carpenters were raising a room to sit in. Both projects are still there, and you reach the second one by boat across the first.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/9/namsvatnet-wp/u799-namsvatnet-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Namsvatnet: Fourteen Metres of Give https://qualla.com/namsvatnet/ Namsvatnet is a substantial body of water by any measure: roughly 39 square kilometres of surface, seventeen kilometres long and about four across, 455 metres up, 84 metres deep at its deepest and averaging 28. Its catchment covers some 700 square kilometres. Since 1959 it has al...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/9/namsvatnet-wp/u799-namsvatnet-fourteen-metres-of-give.mp3 0:06 2 full Namsvatnet: Three Rivers Out of the Wilderness https://qualla.com/namsvatnet/ The water arrives from the northeast, out of Børgefjell National Park. Three main streams feed the lake: Storelva, draining the lake Jengelvatnet; Virmaelva; and Orelva, coming down from Ovrejaevrie. Børgefjell itself was protected in 1963 and now covers about 1,447 square kilome...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/9/namsvatnet-wp/u799-namsvatnet-three-rivers-out-of-the-wilderness.mp3 0:06 3 full Namsvatnet: Char, Trout and Minnow https://qualla.com/namsvatnet/ Three fish species share the lake: Arctic char, trout, and the small silver cyprinid Norwegians call ørekyt — the European minnow. The char is the one the district is named for, since the municipality of Røyrvik takes its name from an old farm whose name means, plainly, char inle...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/9/namsvatnet-wp/u799-namsvatnet-char-trout-and-minnow.mp3 0:06 4 full Namsvatnet: Nine Kilometres by Water https://qualla.com/namsvatnet/ There is no road along the length of Namsvatnet. From Namsvassgrenda at the southern end, a boat service runs about nine kilometres up the lake to the northern shore, and that crossing is the practical gateway to Børgefjell for anyone not prepared to walk in from a great distance...

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