Tvindefossen

Tvindefossen
Trollafossen
Tvindefossen; Trollafossen
Location	Vestland, Norway
Coordinates	60°43′34″N 6°29′03″E / 60.726244°N 6.484203°E
Type	Tiered Plunges
Total height	116 metres (381 ft)
Number of drops	2
Total width	61 metres (200 ft)
Average width	46 metres (151 ft)
Run	152 metres (499 ft)
Watercourse	Kroelvi
Average; flow rate	4 cubic metres per second (140 cu ft/s)

Tvindefossen (also written Tvinnefossen; also called Trollafossen^[1]) is a waterfall in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the village of Vossevangen along the European route E16 road to Flåm.^[2]^[3]^{[unreliable source?]}

The many-stranded waterfall, often said to be 152 metres (499 ft) high,^[2] is actually 116 metres (381 ft),^[2] is formed by a small Kroelvi stream,^[1] tumbling over a receding cliff.^[4] It is famous for its beauty.^[5] Buses sometimes stop for people to admire it.^[6] It was painted in 1830 by Johan Christian Dahl.^[7]

In addition, in the late 1990s the water at Tvindefossen acquired a reputation for rejuvenation and revival of sexual potency that made it one of the most important natural tourist attractions in western Norway, with as many as 200,000 people a year from the U.S., Japan and Russia visiting and filling containers with the water.^[8]^[9]

At one point it was Norway's ninth most visited natural attraction, with 272,000 visitors.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Tvindefossen Archived 2010-12-22 at the Wayback Machine at World Waterfall Database
^ ^a ^b ^c "Tvindefossen". World Waterfall Database.
^ Northern European Cruises
^ Ymer 36-37 (1917) p. 235 (in Swedish)
^ Johan Vibe, Norges land og folk volume 12: Søndre Bergenhus amt, Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1896, p. 300 (in Norwegian)
^ Terry Plant, Nordic Journeys, 5th ed. Newton Abbot, 1990, ISBN 978-0-9510511-2-2, p. 104.
^ Andreas Aubert, Maleren Johan Christian Dahl: et stykke av forrige aarhundredes kunst- og kulturhistoria, Kristiania, 1920, p. 152 (in Norwegian)
^ "Vilt ved Viagrafallene", Bergens Tidende 12 August 2001 (in Norwegian)
^ Svein Kvalheim notes at the end of "Vøringfossen på topp", Bergens Tidende 2 November 2001: "det virker som om hver femte bilist denne sommeren lot være å stoppe ved Tvindefossen i Voss." - "it seems as if every fifth driver this summer refrained from stopping at the Tvinde waterfall in Voss."
^ "Norge – turisme". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 May 2011.