WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY
The ice age was by no means an ice age for island communities out here in the ocean gap as it still covered the entire Scandinavian hinterland; the ice sheet then had a brake that stopped at the sea. Here it was ice-free while the ice was still 2-3 km thick to the east. The Gulf Stream took care of that. Out here, it therefore became possible to hunt both seals and whales, to fish, collect bird eggs and collect down, as well as cultivate a little on the barren food soil that also existed.
Here it was also possible to live a good life that was quite safe for external enemies, unlike our relatives further south on the continent. What more did you need?
Here one could become rooted and take care of oneself and one's family.
This is still the case.
THE NORTH SEA WAS A Plain
An Eternal Landscape. The full moon rises in the southeast.
A few thousand years ago you could have walked more or less dry-shod from the south coast of Norway to the British Isles. At that time, the North Sea was a huge plain, which filled the area between Great Britain and Scandinavia. And where there are seas today, in the older Stone Age there were large plains with forests, wild animals, flowers and people. Towards the end of the last ice age, this huge area of land sank into the sea and disappeared. But because the catastrophic flood occurred relatively quickly, the bottom of the North Sea is today considered one of the best-preserved prehistoric lands in Europe - perhaps even in the world. Now British researchers from the University of Birmingham have begun to map and explore this northern European 'Atlantis' '- as it appeared around 10,000 years before our era.
The coast along Helgeland must thus have been just on the outer edge, north of this fertile plain.
Then time goes…
Sørsommarauken a late afternoon in october.
PRIZE FOR INNOVATION - NORWAY 2018
The Ministry of Local Government and Modernization awarded the 2018 Innovation Prize to Træna Municipality. This was in fierce competition with several other municipalities in Norway, including Sarpsborg and Sola municipality, which we joined in the final heat. It was Træna municipality that won. We are very proud of that. This inspires us all in the municipality - not least here at Selvær - to lean even further forward in terms of both innovation and motivation to highlight the qualities we stand for.
NORWAY'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
Aftenposten chose in May 2020 Træna as no. 3 of the ten best goals in the summer holidays. “Here you can live in beautiful surroundings, having a slow pulse and collect more likes on Instagram.”