1. Old Eidfjord Church built in 1309 AD.
Norwegian: Eidfjord "gamle kyrkje"

The legend says that the building of this church was financed by wealthy woman called “RIKE-RAGNA” (rich Ragna) to atone for her sins.

Her reason for building the church lay in her desperate need for forgiveness
when she allowed her own husband to drown while they were on their way to town. She left him on a reef and when the tide came in, he drowned.

She still has her gravestone standing in the church. The gravestone shows the kneeling Ragna giving a model of the church to the apostle Jacob the elder (St. James of Compostela). The inscription says: “Here: Rests Ragna: Asolfridsdottir: Is: This: Church. Let: Construct”.

On the graveyard wall, just south of the gate there is a slate slab with 52 cut bowl depressions. The slab is called “The corpse stone”. In the old days it was an established custom to place the coffins here before they were carried into the graveyard.

The 700 years old church has tiny windows and 5-foot thick stone walls.

2. Eidfjord Lake
Norwegian - "Eidfjordvatnet"

This is a 3.55-square-kilometre (1.37 sq mi) lake. Norwegian National Road 7 runs along the western shore of the lake. The water enters the lake through the Bjoreio and Veig rivers, and the water empties from the lake through the Eio River and then to the fjords.