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De hører som bekjendt med til Norges ejendomme-
lighed, at dets kyst ved bugter og lange fjorde er udtunget
i en mængde halvøer, og disse have igjen sine forposter
ud mod havet i en utallighed af større eller mindre øer.
Dette gjelder ikke mindst det gamle Vestfold eller den
landsdel, som væsentligst bestod af det nuværende Jarls-
bergs og Larviks amt. I den sydligere del af amtet og
navnlig i Sandehereds prestegjeld viser det sig saaledes
af vedføjede kort, at der mellem Lahellebugten samt
Tørsbergtjord paa den ene side, og Sandefjorden paa den
anden, omtrent fra nord til syd stikker frem to smale
landstrimler, som adskilles ved den mellemliggende Midt-
fjord. Den vestre af disse halvøer kaldes nu paa stedet
Vesteröya (det gamle Velley), den anden Østeröya (for-
hen Yxney). Allerede navnene hentyde følgelig til, at
begge halvøer engang i den historiske tid vare omflydte.
Dette vinder i styrke ved terrænets beskaffenhed; thi me
dens begge halvøer i sine landfaste ender bestaa af tildels
skovbevoxede klippehøjder, skraane disse med engang
temmelig stærkt ned mod den underliggende træløse og
lave slette. Endnu i 1873 kunde ogsaa en gammel mand
paa stedet tydelig mindes, at man gjennem den fordyb-
ning mellem Vesterøen og den nærmeste højde mod vest,
hvor der nu er hængedynd, i hans ungdom kunde med
en pram til nød komme op imod Midtfjorden. Ja endnu
den dag idag, naar der paa grund af søndenvinds storm
i søen er mere end almindelig hej vandstand, f ex. 28
december 1879, stiger vandet op over fladen nordenfor
halvøerne. Det er ogsaa kun faa aar siden, at man ved
pløjning i en ager under Skraaningen omtrent i sydvest
for husene paa Freberg traf forenden af en pram og dens
fangeline.
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coast is by long Fiords and Bays formed into a great number
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is as we all know a peculiarity of Norway that her
of peninsulas, which again have almost innumerable greater
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peculiarity does not least belong to the old Vestfold, or
or smaller isles as a breastwork against the sea.
that part of the country which principally consisted of
the present counties of Jarlsberg and Larvik. The more
southerly parts of the latter and more particularly the pa-
rish of Sandeherred show as the map adhibited will render
more evident that, between the bay of Lahelle and
the Tonsbergfiord, on one side, and Sandefiord, on the
other, two small stripes of land separated by the interjacent
Midtfjord, extend nearly from north to south. The more
westerly of these peninsulas is now called Vesterøya (in
ancient times Velley) the more easterly Østerøya (for-
merly Yxney). The names seem consequently to imply,
that both the peninsulas even in historical times have
been surrounded by water. This supposition is also
strengthened by the nature of the ground, for while
both the peninsulas, on the contiguous side, consist of
mountain rocks overgrown with wood, the latter at once
slope down rather precipitously towards the low and
woodless plain lying beneath. An old man on the spot
could, evenas late as i 1873, distinctly remember, that in
the intervening space between the Vesterey and the
nearest elevated ground further west, where there now
is but a quagmire, people in his youth could pass
with a pram up towards the Midtfiord. And, even now
in the present day, when there is unusually high water
caused by violent southerly storms, for instance on the
28th of December 1879, the water rose over the plain
on the northern side of the peninsulas. But a few years
since, when labourers were ploughing a field under the
slope nearly south west of the houses of Freberg they
found the fore-part of a pram and its painter,
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