The mystery of the Aurland tent is solved: scared by the "beef calves"

The West Police District came out on Tuesday, after two-tenths were found abandoned at Seltuftvatnet in the municipality of Aurland, writes Bergens Tidende

The tents were found empty for people but with some business and food inside. The tents should have been there from Thursday, July 19 and maybe longer, according to the police.

There are no reports missing from the tent area east of Vatnahalsen and at the southern end of the Seltuftvatnet

The owners of Ttelten , a succession of four adults and four children, had set up the tents at the water's edge a week ago

but they were scared by a herd of cows. Then they did not return for tents, food and equipment.

All eight are doing well but do not want to pay attention in the media, police wrote in a press release.

Inoffensive cattle in pasture

Grunneier Torstein Fretheim tells BT that there are Dexterfe breed cows, who graze on the area, and not beef calves like the police. has learned.

– This is a calm and kind flock, but they are very much in search of contacts, laughs Fretheim said.

Fretheim's theory is that visitors do not have the usual animals and were therefore saved when they discovered a herd of about 60 calves.

– Maybe they started running. The animals are very curious, so they followed closely, he says.

Calves graze in the mountain four months a year, and the area should be well marked with signs that say "grazing area".

– I encourage people who want to get in touch with their roots to visit them to welcome them. It's very beautiful animals, says Fretheim in closing.

Learn from the explanation

Magne Knudsen overworked at Årdal Länsmannskontor is satisfied with happy ending and quick explanation. The solution came when the turnkey owner again recognized his tent on a picture on television 2.

Knudsen, however, fails to buzz just above the explanation of the mystery.

– Hehe. They had a special holiday experience and different. The most important thing now is that they are doing well, says Knudsen, before having to laugh a little more for himself.

According to him, the trip was a Norwegian, non-Western family and foreign friends of this family.

They made a trip to the beautiful west of Norway. When this happened with the ox calves, they left the tents as they were and never came back.

– Did anyone tell them that they had gone there?

– Then he spoke to the calves to a farmer. But I do not know in detail what they said about their plans to leave the place

The police reassured the tents that the action that was initiated will not cost them anything.

– With Police Island

Knudsen said in 11- Time for BT that a police patrol goes to the tent to "look at the issue with the eyes of the police."

police also investigated a number of photos of tents taken by Red Cross teams. and the telephoto lens to say more about who installed them and where they came from, Knudsen said while the mystery was still not resolved.

The tents had stayed a week at the same place when cabin owners from the area came with a message of concern to the police. Then the Red Cross was sent.

Thursday the Red Cross with the police came to the tent.