Mjølfjell
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Out of the window you can now see Mjølfjell in Voss municipality. The area got its name from the “white” mountain of the same name, which consists of a rock called anorthosite. The light flour coloured bedrock gave association to the Nynorsk word “Mjøl” which means flour and thereafter it was called Mjølfjell. Today walkers and cabin owners have conquered the beautiful mountain. If you fancy a cooling dip, you can find lakes, streams and an outdoor swimming pool where you can relax on a sunbed and enjoy the beautiful landscape. In the olden days there were many stables and summer farms where the animals came for summer grazing from the farms below. The animals needed to be supervised and milked, which was largely a job for the ‘budeiene’. ‘Budeie’ is a traditional occupation carried out by women who had responsibility for looking after the animals either on the farm or at the summer farm. In fact, in the 1800s “cattle care” was purely a women’s profession in Norway. The Budeine left the farm with empty milk pails during the day, would stay the night at the stable or summer farm and return the next day with pails full of milk. It was not a walk in the park to be a budeie, but they had every Saturday off and the unmarried budeiene were often on that day swarmed by potential suitors.