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Norge - Pinch Stones. Proposal Stones, Prodigious Stones and Penis Stones in Norway - Part 1

Stone Lifting in Norway Inspired by Ryan Stewart, Nic Whalen and Mark Prows' recently stone lifting tour of Sweden (and Iceland before that), I got all distracted from my Skye research and spent far too long going down the rabbit hole of Norway. You could probably throw a dart at a map of the world, blindfolded, and still hit a country that has a history of stone lifting to some degree, and Norway seemed a likely candidate for having a good number with Sweden clearly having a rich stone history. This blog isn't intended to be a complete document on all of Norway and stones - I wouldn't ever claim to be able to write such, nor is it huge amount of work. It's what I managed to find with a handful of spare hours and a few tussles with Google translate. On a similar vein, I won't sadly be able to make a trip to Norway any time too soon, so don't plan on doing any more follow up work to this post in the near future. If anyone else knows more or plans to do furt...