Fryken (){{cite book, url=http://runeberg.org/ortnamn/0012.html, author1=Jöran Sahlgren, author2=Gösta Bergman, title=Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter, language=sv, year=1979, page=8 is a chain of three lakes in

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a ''landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ...

, Sweden: Upper, Middle and Lower Fryken. The lakes are separated by two sounds, Sunnesundet and Nilsbysundet. The total length of Fryken is 80 km, but it is only 3 km wide at the widest part. The maximum depth is 120 meters and it is located at 62 meters above

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. Fryken is drained by

Norsälven Norsälven () is a river flowing between Fryken and Vänern in Värmland, Sweden. It used to be an important river for log driving Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstrea ...

Upper Fryken (Övre Fryken)

The

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is situated at the north end of Upper Fryken with the main tributary

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and the smaller river Röjdån. The football trainer

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owns a country house at the south-east side of Upper Fryken. The locality Sunne is situated in the south at the sound between Upper Fryken and Middle Fryken.

Middle Fryken (Mellan-Fryken)

The locality

Rottneros Rottneros () is a locality situated in Sunne Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 448 inhabitants in 2010. Rottneros means "roaring river mouth" in old Swedish. The river Rottnan used to have three waterfalls close to the discharge into l ...

is situated in the north-west of Middle Fryken as well as the largest tributary Rottnan. Middle Fryken separates the localities Östra Ämtervik and

Västra Ämtervik Västra Ämtervik is a locality situated in Sunne Municipality, Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, ...

. The

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winner

Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was ...

is buried in Östra Ämtervik.

Lower Fryken (Nedre Fryken)

The sound Nilsbysundet, separates Middle Fryken from Lower Fryken. The locality Kil is situated near the south end of Lower Fryken. Lower Fryken is drained in the south-west by

down to Lake

Vänern Vänern ( , also , ) is the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake of all Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia. It is located in the provinces of Västergötland, Dalsland, and Värmland ...

References

Lakes of Värmland County