Vågan
Vågan is a municipality in the county of
Nordland, Norway.Vågan was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see
formannskapsdistrikt). Two other municipalities were later separated from it:
Gimsøy (1856) and the town of
Svolvær (1919) - but these were both again merged with Vågan January 1, 1964.The main population centres are the town of
Svolvær and the villages of
Kabelvåg and Henningsvær. All three have a picturesque situation under the rugged Lofoten mountains, facing the rough body of water called
Vestfjorden. Kabelvåg is the oldest fishing village in
Lofoten, where King Øystein built the first fishing shacks in the early 12th c. The Lofoten Cathedral, built in 1898, seats 1,200 people, and used to be filled to the last seat during the Lofoten fishing in the Winter. Henningsvær has a picturesque situation on several islands, and is today more important for fishing. Svolvær is the municipal centre, and has an impressive number of artists' studios and galleries. In addition to the
cod fisheries, salmon
fish farming and tourism is economically important in Vågan.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
vagar
v.
wander, roam; straggle
vagar
= bob about, meander, roam (about/around), range, wander, drift off, rove.
Ex: 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.
Ex: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
Ex: Unless children are given time to roam about unhindered among books of many kinds, left alone to choose for themselves, and to do what any avid adult reader does, then maybe we labor in vain.
Ex: We will be bringing scholars from all over the world both to range widely in our multiform collections and put things together rather than just take them apart.
Ex: The article is entitled 'Wandering the Web: further developments on the global information bazaar'.
Ex: The study loses track of its argument at times and drifts off into analyses of the peacemaking process that are not relevant.
Ex: The production is extremely lively: Wandering musicians rove the tiny stage and aisles, competing with birdsong and baroque concertos over the tannoy.
----
* vagar libremente = roam + free.
Free Download Now!
