Sylteormen
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High up on the vertical rock face in Syltefjellet, you can see a bright spiral or worm-like drawing. This is a rather special natural phenomenon and has always been noticed, almost becoming a landmark of Valldal. In several legends, explanations have been made about the white Worm in Syltefjellet. When Saint Olav arrived with his ships in Valldal in 1029, a large sea serpent approached the king's ship and tried to prevent them from reaching land. It is said that King Olav climbed up to the bow of the ship, grabbed the serpent, and after a hard struggle, he defeated it and threw it with his oar so hard against the mountain wall that the mark is still visible today. This is actually a quartz vein formed by volcanic activity about 500 million years ago.