Show th emlia elstrom Is 1 a beallo so many m minelous mi i tales baz h told of tho the norwegian maelstrom ma elstra elstro several writers oven even of benm works have pronounced it e mythical but tho the whirlpool whirl pod reality realty and froni from surveys hail haft well known it is on the I 1 coast to tho the south of the thoLof foda and runs between a r email mall 1 law massones Ma skones skenes and u rocky islet tin ta of the water in the straits la it a alx feet while just juat oti outside taldo a I 1 lino line will scarcely touch awan the strong currents rushing its aai of the fiords create no nob b only tb 0 strom or mill stream but in other whirlpools that render tion exceedingly dangerous danger oua the strait of the fenily calm at ebb 0 at low flow tf with the rising or the fallisi fallin tide or when a bagh wind is i or a storm raging the tho water waters d fc from the ocean find their fayod through the strait with such s violence that no ship can pan the eddies thero thera Is littlee little suction as is commonly sup danger being that the vessel come unmanageable and bob bo da the rocks it Is said that w abu been boon found in tho the vicinity sa s1 heads completely crushed it larl been caught la in the current aci ul against the cliffs the government has surveyed tt strom and warned all caa a against ainest its dangers |