Kapitel: Spitzbergen, Vesterlen, Lofoten, Vega-Archipel, Knig-Karl-Land, Skrova, Sjernaryane, Sjuyane, sv r, Sryane, Flatholmen. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude. Henningsv r in Lofoten during fishing season (April, 2001).Lofoten (Norse Lft f) was originally the old name of the island Vestvgya. The first element is l 'lynx', the last element is derived from Norse ftr m 'foot'. The shape of the island must have been compared with a foot of a lynx. (The old name of the neighbouring island Flakstadya was Vargft 'the foot of a wolf', from vargr m 'wolf'. See also Ofoten.) Stockfish has been exported from Lofoten for at least 1,000 years.Vgan (Norse Vgar) is the first known town formation in northern Norway. It existed in the early Viking Age, maybe earlier, and was located on the southern coast on eastern Lofoten, near today's village Kabelvg in Vgan municipality. However, the Lofotr museum with the reconstructed 83 m long longhouse (the largest known) is located near Borg on Vestvgy, which have many archeological finds from the Iron Age and Viking Age. The islands have for more than 1,000 years been the centre of great cod fisheries, especially in winter, when the cod migrates south from the Barents Sea and gathers in Lofoten to spawn. Bergen in southwestern Norway was for a long time the hub for further export south to large parts of Europe, The Lofotr Viking Museum. Borg in Vestvgyparticularly so when trade was controlled by the Hanseatic League. In the lowland areas, particularly Vestvgy, agriculture plays a significant role, as it has done since the Bronze Age. Lofotr was originally the name of the island of Vestvgy only. Later it became the name of th...http://booksllc.net/?l=de