Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Fjord is strong enough for heavy work, such as ploughing fields or hauling wood, yet light and agile enough to be a good riding and driving horse. It is also sure-footed in the mountains. It is common at Norwegian riding and therapeutic schools , as its generally mild temperament and small size make it suitable for children and disabled ...
Somes Sound is a fjard - a shallow fjord with heavily eroded mountains surrounding the waterway - and is not a true fjord. Pages in category "Fjords of Maine" This category contains only the following page.
The Norwegian Fjordhorse Center (Norwegian: Norsk Fjordhest Senter) is the national resource center of the Fjord Horse breed in Norway. The center was established in 1989 and is owned by the Norwegian Fjord Horse Association, Stad Municipality and the Vestland County authority. The main goal of the center is to promote the breeding and usage of ...
Fjord Horses by the fjord in Nordfjordeid. The Norwegian Fjordhorse Center is a national resource centre for Norway's national symbol: the Fjord horse, located in Nordfjordeid. Nordfjordeid is known as "the Mecca of the Fjord Horse". The reason for this is historic, because the village is famous for its long-standing horse traditions.
The Henson horse, or cheval de Henson, is a modern horse breed [1] from northwest France.It was created by the selective breeding of light saddle horses with the smaller, heavier Norwegian Fjord horse to create small horses suitable for the equestrian vacation industry.
State Route 182 (SR 182) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maine. It connects U.S. Route 1 (US 1) at Hancock with US 1 in Cherryfield running for a distance of 23 miles (37 km). While US 1 stays to the south passing through towns along Maine's coastline, SR 182 stays inland only passing through one town, Franklin , but otherwise passes ...
State Route 16 (SR 16) is a numbered state highway in Maine, United States.SR 16 runs from the New Hampshire state line (signed as NH-16) at Wentworth Location (near Lake Aziscohos) in the west to Orono at the eastern terminus.
For example, the Icelandic horse is a close relative of the Fjord horse and both the Faroese and Icelandic languages are based on the Old West Norse. In early Norse times, people from Western Norway became settlers at the Western Isles in the Northern Atlantic, Orkney, Shetland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland.