Map of southern Norway from 1640 by cartographers from the Netherlands omitted the Telemark region. They were warned not to go there because the locals had a tendency to kill non-locals.
by Remarkable_Asparagus
Map of southern Norway from 1640 by cartographers from the Netherlands omitted the Telemark region. They were warned not to go there because the locals had a tendency to kill non-locals.
by Remarkable_Asparagus
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When cartographers came from Amsterdam to map parts of Norway, they were told not to travel to Telemark. The chance of getting back alive was very slim.
– The people in Telemark were unfriendly and very unhospitable. The telemarkings tended to kill people they didn’t like, says Johan Ziener Thronsen, owner of the Z-Museum in Treungen in Nissedal.
Lots of horror stories
He says that there were several horror stories from Telemark that circulated at the time. Among other things, several bodies had been found in the bog behind the house of a woman in Seljord. She ran an inn and is said to have robbed and killed the visitors before placing the bodies in the bog.
The vicar in Vinje had written to the vicar in Oslo. There he wrote that there had to be order among the people who lived there, because it was the third Sunday in a row that they had experienced murder on the church hill.
Thronsen says that these are some of the many stories that led to cartographers not daring to approach Telemark, which is why no map of the place was drawn either.
Full article here: https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/vestfoldogtelemark/fikk-klar-beskjed-om-a-ikke-naerme-seg-telemark-1.13587708?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=no&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Alt-right people: nOrWaY hAS lOW cRImE bECAUse iTs hOmOgENOUS!!
No, dumb asses. It has low crime because of the social policies. Norway went from a Viking stronghold with constant blood feuds to a social democracy with a generous safety net. Something right wingers are to stupid to understand.