The old distillery

This is the old distillery at Røykenvik.

It's not far from the spot where Halfdan the Black (he had black hair), the Viking king of Agder drowned in 860 when he fell through the ice on his return home from Hadeland. His horse and sleigh broke though ice weakened by cattle dung near a watering hole dug in the frozen lake. He was buried in a mound at Stein in Ringerike. Each of the districts of his kingdom wanted to claim his grave, and it was hence agreed to divide his body into four pieces so each district could bury a piece of it, resulting in four different sites called Halvdanshaugen (from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound).

I don't know whether the distillery can be held responsible for his drowning accident, or indeed if it was there at the time - but I wouldn't be surprised if the old Viking had one or two too many on that fatal day also.