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Natural PlacesSite Name: Trollsteinen Alternative Name: The troll's rockCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.604 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Narvik Nearest Village: Ballangen
Latitude: 68.329779N Longitude: 16.683426E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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This site is a old sami sacrificial site, the name means "The troll's rock" in norwegian. It consists of a huge natural shaped boulder that fell from the nearby mountainside long ago.
It is about 3-4 meters tall and about 8-9 meters in length. When it fell down and hit the ground it probably broke in two large pieces, forming a deep crack in the rock.
This is a typical site of ancient sami worship. I expected to find pieces of animal bones inside the crack, but I could not find any.
This site is a very well-known one for the local people, there are several tracks trough the tick forest leading up to it, but it require a long walk from the main highway, and its almost impossible to find without local guidence. It is inside a tick fir wood, and there are several tracks crossing in every direction from the main path.
When I was at the sight I remember I had read that the people in the old days used to put a coin at the site or a small amount of tobacco to honour the old gods and for good luck, so I did put a coin on the stone, it was raining heavily when I came to the site, but when I put the coin and a small amount of tobacco at the site, the rain suddenly stopped and the sun came up! A coincidence, but it was a funny idea that maybe the old god were happy someone came at a visit and gave him a small sacrifice....
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