Qualla: Trofors https://qualla.com/trofors 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: Trofors https://qualla.com/trofors Trofors: Introduction https://qualla.com/trofors/ On 9 March 2024, two twenty-two-year-olds won Melodifestivalen and with it the right to carry Sweden's flag to the Eurovision Song Contest. Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen grew up in Trofors, which is in Norway — a village of about 860 people packed onto 0.79 square kilometres where the E6 crosses the Vefsna and a road peels east toward the Swedish border. They came ninth in Malmö with 174 points. Trofors is the administrative centre of a municipality whose population density is 0.7 people per square kilometre; within the village itself the figure is 1,089. Nearly three in five people in Grane live on this one small patch of valley floor.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/s/trofors-wp/u79s-trofors-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Trofors: Two Drops of Water https://qualla.com/trofors/ The twins were born in Elverum on 21 February 2002 — Marcus first, by fifteen minutes — but Trofors is where they grew up and went to school. In 2012, aged ten, they won Melodi Grand Prix Junior with a song called "Two Drops of Water," which climbed to number eight on the Norwegi...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/s/trofors-wp/u79s-trofors-two-drops-of-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Trofors: Where the Vefsna Begins https://qualla.com/trofors/ Two rivers arrive at Trofors from different directions and leave as one. The Svenningdalselva comes up from the south, following the same corridor as the highway and the railway. The Austervefsna comes down from the east, out of Hattfjelldal and the high country near the Swedish ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/s/trofors-wp/u79s-trofors-where-the-vefsna-begins.mp3 0:06 3 full Trofors: Thirty Years Without Salmon https://qualla.com/trofors/ Laksforsen means salmon falls, and for most of a lifetime the name was aspirational. In the 1970s the Vefsna was infected with Gyrodactylus salaris, a tiny parasitic flatworm that fastens onto young salmon and kills them, and the river's famous runs collapsed. Ladders were shut t...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/s/trofors-wp/u79s-trofors-thirty-years-without-salmon.mp3 0:06 4 full Trofors: Junction https://qualla.com/trofors/ Trofors exists because things meet here. The Nordland Line came through in 1940, the year the railway reached Mosjøen, and Trofors Station has been on the timetable since. The E6 runs past on its way north, and National Road 73 begins here, heading east through Hattfjelldal and o...

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