Qualla: Tunnsjøen https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en 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/7/9/8/tunnsj-en-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tunnsjøen https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en Tunnsjøen: Introduction https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en/ Photo credit Alasdair McLellan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Nowhere in Europe does an island stand this far above the water around it. Gudfjelløya rises from the middle of Tunnsjøen as a six-square-kilometre wedge of granite, its summit — Gudfjellet — reaching 812 metres above sea level, a full 454 metres above the lake lapping at its base. The usual rival for the title is Monte Isola in Italy's Lake Iseo, and it does not come close. But the measurement is the least interesting thing here. In Southern Sami the island is called Tjåehkere, and long before anyone thought to compare it with anything in Italy, it was a holy place.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/tunnsj-en-wp/u798-tunnsj-en-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tunnsjøen: A Mountain With Water Around It https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en/ Photo credit Alasdair McLellan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tunnsjøen fills a trough of 100.18 square kilometres in the far east of Trøndelag, split between the municipalities of Røyrvik and Lierne, close enough to the Swedish border that you could walk to it in a morning. It is Norway's seventh largest lake, sitting at 358 metres above s...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/tunnsj-en-wp/u798-tunnsj-en-a-mountain-with-water-around-it.mp3 0:06 2 full Tunnsjøen: Tjåehkere https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en/ Photo credit Alasdair McLellan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Gudfjellet means god-mountain, and the Norwegian name is a translation of what the Southern Sami already knew. The island has long been a religiously important place, remembered as an old sacrificial site, and near the top of the plateau sits the feature that gives the whole thin...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/tunnsj-en-wp/u798-tunnsj-en-tj-ehkere.mp3 0:06 3 full Tunnsjøen: The Lake Is Also a Battery https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en/ Photo credit Alasdair McLellan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Look at the shoreline in late winter and you may notice a pale band of scoured rock above the ice. Tunnsjøen is a regulated reservoir, the lowest in a chain of managed lakes that drain west into the Namsen river system through the Tunnsjøelva toward Namsskogan. Its surface is all...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/tunnsj-en-wp/u798-tunnsj-en-the-lake-is-also-a-battery.mp3 0:06 4 full Tunnsjøen: Border Country https://qualla.com/tunnsj-en/ Photo credit Alasdair McLellan, CC BY-SA 3.0. At 64.7 degrees north, the light does most of the work. Midsummer here means a sun that barely bothers to set, the granite flanks of Gudfjelløya holding a low orange glow past midnight. In December the reverse — a few blue hours, then the lake goes dark and hard. Røyrvik and Lier...

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