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Google Maps™ – Bøverdalen in Lom (map names missing )
The 34 meters Saga column at Elveseter Hotel at Sognefjellsvegen in Bøverdalen (south of Lom). The sculptor Willhelm Rasmussen (1879-1965) started the work on this sculpture in 1925, but for financial reasons it was interrupted shortly before World War II. It was then called 'the Eidsvoll column' and was intended to be the National Monument to be raised in front of the Parliament Building. It depicts scenes from the Norwegian history from the Viking age till the Eidsvoll Constitution Assembly in 1814. On its top is the first King of Norway, Harald the Fairhead on horse. Unfortunately Willhelm Rasmussen joined the Nazi party before the war and supported the Nazis during the war. The style of the sculpture also coincided with Nazi preferences and propaganda during the war, and after the war the Parliament decided that it must never be raised. However, in 1992 it was raised in here in 'the middle of nowhere' as the Saga column. (Willhelm Rasmussen also made e.g. the statue of
Olav Tryggvason
Olav Tryggvason
Olav Tryggvason
on the Trondheim town square and the
fountain group
fountain group
fountain group
in the Ila Park in the same town.)
(2008-09-13)
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The Elveseter Hotel in Bøverdalen, south of Lom.
(2008-09-13)
