The Sunken Lane - Traffic

The path you are walking on now, goes in some places along the old sunken lane, an old traffic artery that could no doubt tell us some stories if it were able to. In some places you can see the u profile of the old road here in the landscape, due to wear and tear from traffic over such a long period of time. But much of it is now overgrown or gone. We don’t know how old the road is, but it could be very old. What we do know is that Kvernes has been an important place for many, both before and after the introduction of Christianity. After the Church arrived on Kvernes, the road was probably used by many as a Church Road, and the servants of the Priest could have used this road to transport timber from the forests, or to move animals to pasture. Those who lived at the top of the valley on the other side of the fjord, also belonged to the congregation of Kvernes Church. They would take day old babies across the mountain to have them christened and would also come over with coffins to lay their dead in consecrated ground. Today the car has taken over, and the main road no longer runs over the mountain or along the old sunken lane. But traces of the old transportation ways can still be found in the landscape.