26 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
bottom of Lyngen Fjord, a branch of the Namsen 
Fjord, fishing can be had in the Oy river. 
From this place, which is about thirty miles from 
the mouth of the Namsen, the traveller will meet a 
small river, the Braacna Exy, running through Bang- 
dalen. It is a nice little river, and is perhaps capable 
of affording occasional sport. 
The Namsen Exv, so noted for its splendid fishery, 
rises in Nams Vand, 1,300 feet above the level of the 
sea, and runs with many bends and turns in a south- 
westerly, and subsequently in a westerly course. Its 
length is about 120 miles. It can either be reached by 
steamer from Throndhjem, or by the route of Stenkjer, 
just named. 
As may be supposed, it is a very rapid stream, and 
very liable to be flooded. Indeed, the water will rise 
from twenty to twenty-four feet in an incredibly short 
time. Ata distance of about forty-two miles from its 
mouth is the magnificent Fiskum Foss, one of the most 
majestic falls in the whole country, being 580 feet 
broad, and 156 feet high. 
The fishing immediately below this is, beyond com- 
pare, superb. 
The fishing in this river does not properly begin 
before arriving at Vie, about twenty-five miles from the 
mouth, the part below this being too deep to allow of 
salmon taking a fly. The middle of June is the earliest 
