We took the ferry trip from Bergen to Flåm. All day we saw dramatic views of the Songnefjord, Norway's longest and deepest fjord.
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Imagine living in such a setting as this, surrounded by water and mountains. At least in the summer, it looks like a paradise.
The poet Mary Oliver once wrote that a good poem includes a waterfall. Every few hundred feet it seemed there was a waterfall cascading from the glaciers that have created the fjords. The entire land is a poem.
From Flåm we took the train to Myrdal, where it was snowing. Along the way the train stopped at the Kjos Waterfalls. Here a young woman appeared in the distance as a "Huldra," a legendary Norwegian lorelei who entices people with song and traps them in the mountain. The Huldra's song echoed from the mountain. (Or at least a recording by Asne Sunniva Søreide).