The Swedish border on Ørskogfjellet

Perhaps hard to believe in our time yet you are now close to where the border between Norway and Sweden was once drawn. For a short period of time toward the end of the 1650`s, the boundary was equivalent to what today separates the municipalities of Vestnes and Ørskog. The reason behind this border line was a war known as Krabbekrigen (The Crab War). It had nothing to do with crabs; it was named after the commander-in-chief of the Norwegian army in Bohuslen, Iver Krabbe. The war was fought between Denmark-Norway (Norway in those times was a part of Denmark) and Sweden. In 1658 the war came to a peaceful end. Denmark-Norway had to give up the entire Romsdal County to Sweden. Therefore the Swedish border was here - for just a couple of years -before the story took new directions.