we crossed took us to Kollafjordur , a place of little interest for tourism but one of the main ports of the archipelago . Beauty abound in front of us when we turned off on the panoramic road to Elduvik which runs along the fjord and afforded views about which we would soon learn .
The small town , which has just twenty-three inhabitants , is cut in two by a river and the typical colourful houses with grass roofs surround the church dated 1952 . The legend tells of a monster called Marmennil who made fun of the fishermen by eating their bait and attaching the hook to the bottom of the sea . One day Marmennil , who has the appearance of a small human , got caught with one hand in the hook of the fisherman Anfinnur and was pulled out of the water . The believing fisher-man calmed the monster thanks to the sign of the cross . Since then , the monster was brought out during the fishing session , in a boat , to attract the fish but , in order not to unleash its anger , it was necessary to sign the cross before releasing it into the water . During a severe storm Anfinnur forgot to do this and Marmennil managed to escape . The legend is remembered with a broken fishing rod on a bench facing the ocean . Along the other side of the fjord , you can reach the villages of Funningur and Gjogv . The road climbs the back of the steep mountain reminding us of one of our Alpine Passes ; here the view did not sweep over lakes or snow-capped peaks , but over long inlets dug in glacial times . Gjov owes its name to the 200-metre-long gorge where the sea flows inside the village . The inclined railway that runs through it recalls the time when goods were transported only by sea and the only way to reach these small towns were the pedestrian paths . Today the railway is in disuse but
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