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After the Ice Age
Along Mjøsa, Grefsheimberget rises steeply from the water. In places the rock face is about 20 metres high, and at its foot cracks and openings run a few metres into the rock.
For most of the year the openings are hard to see. Only in winter, when the water level in Mjøsa is low, do several of them appear.
Oluf Rygh discussed whether the farm name might be linked to the old word grofs, used of rock caves and steep-sided hollows. It cannot be proven. But it is hard to stand beneath the cliff without thinking it.
For the family at Grefsheim the cliff means something else. For many years it has been the site of an Easter egg hunt.
The cliff is steep and rough, and the cracks are not a place to visit on your own.
Source: Oluf Rygh: Norske Gaardnavne, vol. 3 (1900). Information from the family at Grefsheim.