In this film about the maritime cultural landscape in Lofoten and Vestfjorden, you’ll hear from fishermen Harry Lysvoll, Holger Pedersen and Randulf Johansen. Tongue carver Sara K. Jakobsen sings about the Lofoten cod. In addition, John Berg is interviewed, as a fish buyer and fifth generation of the traditional Berg family.
The film is from 2014 and was made by Frank A. Jenssen and Aurora Borealis Multimedia, for Museum Nord.
There are many sources that show that the town of Vågar was of great importance.
But then it disappeared.
From Western Norway in the south, to Finnmark in the north, they came with hand lines and nets, line and seine.
And with the dream of the big lot in Lykkeland.
That there you could get rich.
Out here in Lofoten, the mountainous country with its foot in the open sea, and unimaginable quantities of fish.
“We’ve been told that it was farming in Eastern Norway, lumber from the plank towns, the hardingfela and national costumes that made a state of us. But it was the cod that did that.”
