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Johan Schumann - sheep farmer at Hovden

Person / Person
Published: 27.09.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On a crag on the island of Hovden to the west of Florø stands a three-metre-high stone in commemoration of Johan Schumann. The memorial stone was e...

The memorial chapel at Ervik and the "Sanct Svithun" tragedy

Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the autumn of 1943 the coastal express steamer "Sanct Svithun" was bombed by allied aircraft in the shipping lane off Stad. More than 50 persons pe...

The churchyard at Ervik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"Many were left (out on the sea) and will never rest in consecrated soil. And the ocean is tireless (..) nobody knows who will fall victim to the ocea...

Memorial stone for Bernt Askevold

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 31.10.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the church at Askvoll there is a three-meter-high memorial stone commemorating Bernt Askevold. Into the back is carved: "Venner paa begge...

Memorial stone for Ola Espedal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

Memorial stone for Sigurd Fossen

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

Memorial stone for British war graves at Eivindvik

People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 16.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the churchyard at Eivindvik there is a small low stone with a text plaque. It was raised in remembrance of 16 British naval soldiers who lost their...

Memorial stone over Christen Jenssøn

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Around 1950, a big slab of stone with an old inscription was found in the Askvoll churchyard. The carved letters CIS matched Christen Jenssøn, vicar...

The Gjelsvik stone

Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Professor Nikolaus Gjelsvik (1866-1938) was born at the farm of Gjelsvik in the municipality of Vevring, now Askvoll municipality. He is regarded as...

Memorial at Måløy commemorating fishermen lost at sea

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the years between 1756 and 1955, 84 fishermen in all from the municipality of Sør-Vågsøy were lost at sea. In 1957, a memorial was unveiled close t...

Cholera gravesites in Gulen

Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the 19th century, there were two outbreaks of cholera in Norway, in 1831 and 1848. The first one did not reach western Norway but the second one ...

Memorials for war airmen at Askvoll

People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 03.12.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On Midsummer Eve, 23 June 1943, an Allied airplane crashed on the shore near the home of Chester Saltskår at the point of Stavenes. The two Norwegian ...

The old church yard at Grotle

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the year of culture 1997, the people of Bremanger decided that the old churchyard at Grotle should be the memorabilia of the county. The church of ...

Memorial for the poet vicar Claus Frimann

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Claus Frimann, born 1746, was vicar at Davik for 42 years. He is known as the poet vicar in Nordfjord, best known perhaps for his book "Almuens sanger...

Kapellneset - the first church site on the island of Vågsøya

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The first church building on Vågsøy, a chapel church, was built in 1580 on a point south of Raudeberg. This point was later called "Kapellneset". This...

Cultural monument of the church site on the island of Silda

People and Society
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the island of Silda there was a church from about 1320 to 1580. It was a chapel church in the parish of Selje. It was no longer in use after a new ...

Alfred Maurstad - from Tuftene in the hamlet of Maurstadgrenda

Musikkinstrument / Musical Instrument Musikk / Music Musikkverk / Musical work Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The actor Alfred Maurstad (1896-1967) was born and grew up at Bryggja in the western part of Nordfjord. The home of his childhood was the smallholding...

Måløyraidet - The Martin Linge memorial

Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Martin Linge, actor and military officer, was killed during the British-Norwegian raid on Måløy on 27 December, 1941. He was buried with German milita...

The memorial monument at Ålfoten

Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
A short distance below the church at Ålfoten there is a 4.5-metre-high stone monument to commemorate soldiers from Ålfoten who took part in the war ...

Memorial stone at Holmedal for fallen soldiers in the World War 1939-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Six men from the Holmedal parish (earlier Fjaler municipality, now Askvoll) lost their lives during the World War 1939-1945: three on Norwegian me...

Sunnfjord folkehøgskule - memorial commemorating a pioneer

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Sunnfjord folkehøgskule (folk high school)at Førde in Naustdal was established in 1902. "Ungdomsskolen i Søndfjord" was the headline in an announcemen...

Memorial stone at the point of Saltverkneset at Svanøy

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"The youths from Sunnfjord will some time in the 20th century spend time and efforts in erecting a stone by the shores of Svanøy in memory of Hans N...

Sunnfjord folkehøgskule - memorial stone for principal

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In front of the oldest building at the Sunnfjord folkehøgskule there is a memorial stone. The stone was erected in 1933, in memory of Rasmus Øvrelid, ...

Sunnfjord Folkehøgskule - memorial stone over house fire fatalities

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"In memory of the fatalities at Solvang" is cut into a stone in the churchyard of Førde parish church. Between 1 and 2 o'clock in the night of Saturda...

Memorial stone for - Niels Griis Alstrup Dahl

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"Bread of stone and spirit of 'Striile' (local people), Dahl forced at Eivindvik". These are the frequently quoted words by Henrik Wergeland about the...

Memorial stone at Eivindvik for bailiff Bredvik

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Augustin Bredvik (1868-1952) was bailiff in Gulen for more than 40 years. "One of the pillars of western Norway" as the newspaper Firda put it in an o...

Memorial stone for war victims at Eivindvik

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The municipality of Gulen has four memorial stones for war victims from the Second World War. One stands at Byrknesøy, one on the churchyard at Mjøm...

Memorial stone for soldier Halvard Trædal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Halvard Benjamin Trædal from Indre Oppedal lost his life in action in Valdres on 26 April 1940. He was first buried in Valdres, but his remains were...

Memorial stone for Konrad Byrknes at Mjømna church

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 10.06.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
After the mobilization on 9 April 1940, men from the whole county of Sogn og Fjordane mustered at Bømoen at Voss. From 19 April, some 2000 men were tr...

Memorial stone at Ålfoten for Rasmus Nyvoll

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 02.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Rasmus Nyvoll, born 1909 at Ålfoten, fell in action in Italy in 1944. In 1951, a memorial stone dedicated to him was unveiled at Ålfoten church. It w...

Memorial stone for fallen soldiers from the Davik "sokn"

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 02.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On 17 May 2000, a memorial stone at the Davik church commemorating three men who lost their lives during the Second World War. Two of them died on a j...

The Wergeland monument at Verkland

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"Forget not, you are dust! Forget not, you are more than dust!" With these words from Henrik Wergeland Dagne Groven Myhren unveiled the new memorial...

Memorial stone for Jon J. Hop

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 10.01.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Jon J. Hop was the first person from Solund to lose his life in the war 1940-1945. He was a crew member on a vessel on its way to pick up flour at V...

Memorial stone commemorating Andreas Hesjedal

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 02.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Beside the church at Eikefjord there is a memorial stone commemorating Andreas Hesjedal who died in a terrible accident in Florø on 1 September 1945...

Menhir at Holmedal

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 02.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 1999 Harald Bakke from Holmedal rescued a menhir from ending up at the bottom of the sea. The stone had lain in the pebbles, and ...

Memorial stone at the farm of Ytre Ålen for fallen soldiers in the war 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
A short distance from the sea at the farm of Ålen in Askvoll, there is a memorial stone for three young boys who lost their lives in the war 1940-...

Memorial stone at Askvoll church for fallen soldiers 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the churchyard at Askvoll, there is a memorial stone with 16 names, - all from the municipality of Askvoll, who lost their lives during the war...

Memorial stone for the brothers Asbjørn and Vemund Melvær

Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Magnus and Marie Melvær lost their two sons during the war 1940-1945. Asbjørn, born 1908, died in captivity in Germany. Vemund, born 1922, was los...

Memorial stone for Andrias Bryn at Gudvangen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the main road at Gudvangen there is a memorial stone commemorating the seaman Andrias Bryn, born 1918. He went to sea before the Second World...

Memorial for flight sergeant Erling Julin Olsen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the churchyard at Midtgulen there is a memorial dedicated to Erling Julin Olsen. The stone was erected in 1947 by the people of Svelgen c/o "Svelge...

The pale linden tree in the Nærøyfjord - a botanical curiosity

Plante / Plant
Published: 02.02.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the head of the Nærøyfjord, a short distance up from the sea straight across the fjord from Bakka, we find the pale linden tree (lime tree). ...

Botnavatnet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...

Memorial stone for Anna Myklebust at Bryggja

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 18.07.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Anna Myklebust (1868-1942) from Bryggja put down an unusually high number of hours for the temperance movement. She established a children's lodge at ...

Toftøyna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Gullbotnen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Kvernes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad
Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Møkstrafjordøyane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid
The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid
GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Memorial stone at Leikanger church in Selje

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 09.08.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
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Ulven

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Neumann
Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...

Huglo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg
The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...

Fitjarøyane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...

Finnås

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...

Siggjo

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...

Kattnakken–Stovegolvet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...

Vatlestraumen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Haganes

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Turøyvegen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Hanøy

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

Golta - Gneiss

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

Spildepollen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

The Sivle memorial at Flåm

Monument / Monument
Published: 25.04.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
A number of memorial stones for the author Per Sivle have been erected, - on his grave in Drammen, at Stalheim, at Voss and at Elverum. In Aurland t...

The bedrock of western Norway

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...

The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...

Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...

The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...

Einstapevoll - slates

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Ølve - Mining

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...

The Valen Fault

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Lykling - gold

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Brian Robins Haakon Fossen
During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...

Krokavatnet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Kuvvet Atakan Haakon Fossen
On Sunday the 29th of January, 1989, at 17:38 o'clock, Etna shook. The earthquake, with its epicentre ca. 9 kilometres south of Etne centre, had a str...

Memorial stone for war victims at Byrknesøy

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 14.02.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
By the school at Byrknesøy stands a memorial for eight men who lost their lives during the Second World War. They were all from Mjømna "sokn" (sub-p...

Gaupås

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Sandviksfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Hereiane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...

Memorial stone over fallen on Hersvik churchyard

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

War grave at Selje church - Oluf Ingebrigtsen Aarsheim

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 03.04.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On Friday 19 October, 1945, the Selje church was filled to capacity by village people and others. The occasion was the funeral for Oluf Ingebrigtsen A...

War grave at Novelandet

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 02.07.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Nearly 120 000 Americans lost their lives in the First World War, most of these at the front in France. One of them was Lorents Bakke from Bremanger. ...

War grave at Grotle churchyard - seaman Arthur Hauge

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 07.01.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The former municipality of Bremanger had 13 war victims from the Second World War. Most of these were lost at sea. Only three got a grave at their hom...

Litlandsvatnet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Nils Georg Brekke
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...

War grave at Selje - Peder Sandvik

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 14.01.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"In a statement from the chief command of the Norwegian Royal Navy he died on his post for the country." These words are written in the death notice o...

War grave at Selje - Reidar Drage

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 14.01.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On 15 April, 1946, the cargo on a motor boat loaded with German ammunition caught fire on her way to a dumping site in Nordfjord. People jumped overbo...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

The Tunold stone at Selje

Monument / Monument
Published: 18.02.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The artist Bernt Tunold, born at Selje on 25 February, 1877, died in Bergen on 23 January, 1946, is held to be one of the great painters from wester...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Lussand - geology

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...

1905 - Askvoll Municipality

People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 7 Jun...

Froastad

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Villand Reutz
RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...

Vesoldo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...

Kvamskogen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...

Holmengrå

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Sunde
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...

Memorial stone over fallen on Solund churchyard at Hardbakke

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. F...

Memorial stone for fallen on Husøy churchyard at Straumen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

Hårteigen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...

Kvalvikane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...

Matskorhæ

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...

Skytjedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

War grave at the Frøya church - seaman Dagfinn Frøyen

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 04.05.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Dagfinn Frøyen escaped to England and served in the merchant marine. While working as a seaman on SS Balduin, he fell ill and died in the spring of 19...

War grave at Selje church - Ole Dagfinn Eide

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 12.05.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Both during and after the war fatal accidents happened when people inadvertently stepped on mines. At Osmundvåg, the 18-year-old Ole Dagfinn Eide died...

Mjølfjell

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

The school at Svanøy

Skule / School
Published: 24.06.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The Svanøy school is located in the centre of the island. There are two buildings, the old school from 1874, and a new, modern building from 1982, wit...

Nordheim

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...

Sculpture of Pål Bårdsson - vicar at Undredal and archbishop

Monument / Monument
Published: 06.10.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Many churches have portraits of their own previous vicars going back many centuries. However, no church can match the Undredal church in this respect....

Hamlagrø

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Rallarvegen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end ca...

Buadalsbrotet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Askvik
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...

The churchyard at Svanøy

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 24.06.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa

Anchor at Værlandet - memorial of shipwreck

People and Society
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 30.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the night of 30 December 1919, the SS "Orm Jarl" ran aground to the west of Alden. Two salvage vessels arrived at the disabled ship, and for some t...

Memorial stone commemorating women's graves at Skaim

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 08.12.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa Svein Indrelid
On the northern side of the church at Aurlandsvangen there is a stone linked to a prehistoric find of a grave at the farm Skaim. The stone has been er...

Monument commemorating Henrik and Mette Dahl

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 16.08.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
17 May, 1914. "The day was solemn and fine in all respects. The weather was beautiful and calm. Just a soft breeze to open up the flags on the poles. ...

Plaque commemorating the missionary Hans Schreuder at Kjørnes

Plakett / Plaque
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The missionary Hans Schreuder - the apostle of the Zulu people - was born in Sogndal. In 1992, mission friends erected a memorial stone in his honour....

The Slinde birch tree

Plante / Plant
Published: 29.04.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The famous Slinde birch blew down in an autumn storm in 1874, but thanks to many painters, it is still very much ¿alive". Thomas Fearnley¿s painting...

Memorial stone at Fardal commemorating soldiers in the war years between 1807 and 1814

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
There are two memorial stones in the municipality of Sogndal commemorating soldiers who took part in the war against Sweden in the years between 1807 ...

Memorial stone commemorating - the county governor Hans Seip

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 20.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Hans Seip (1881-1945) was county governor in Sogn og Fjordane from 1929 until he was removed from office by the Nazi regime in the summer of 1941. He ...

Monument commemorating Hans Schreuder - the apostle of the Zulu people

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in 1842. Two years later, the Society sent its first missionary to Africa, Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder...

Memorial stone commemorating Anna Cathrine Schreuder

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The memorial stone on the grave of Anna Cathrine Schreuder, mother of the missionary Hans Schreuder, is found at Stedje church in Sogndal. The idea to...

Memorial stones commemorating Bolette Pavels Larsen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The Bergen author Bolette Christine Pavels Larsen died on 8 December, 1904. Mrs Pavels Larsen was born in Sogndal, lived in Bergen, and over a long pe...

Memorial stone to Oscar II in Fjærland

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
King Oscar II visited Fjærland in the summer of 1879. Those who accompanied him up to the Bøyabre glacier and back, did not want any money for this jo...

Gravestone to commemorate German naval officer in Fjærland

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On 29 July, 1910, a German naval officer lost his life when he fell down the mountainside on the south side of the valley of Bøyadalen. His parents, H...

The runic stone at Barmen

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the island of Barmen there is rune stone ¿south along the shore". The runes date from the elder futhark alphabet with 24 signs. The inscription has...

Memorial stone of those who lost their lives at Nord-Vågsøy church

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Seven men from the former municipality of Nord-Vågsøy lost their lives during the war 1940-1945. On Sunday 16 September 1945, there was a memorial ser...

War grave at Nord-Vågsøy church - Ragnvald and Arthur Torheim

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The brothers Ragnvald and Arthur Torheim lost their lives during the Second World War due to war actions. Both brothers are buried in the same grave o...

Memorial stone for allied airmen at Moldøen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On 24 April 1945, 49 allied planes attacked war targets at Måløy. One plane was shot down and one crashed before it reached its target. Four airmen lo...

The Schreuder monument in Africa

Monument / Monument
Published: 06.04.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The missionary bishop Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder (1817-1882), born in Sogndal, was the first Norwegian missionary in Africa. He started his missiona...

Sogns Tidend - local newspaper 1877-1947

Avis / Newspaper
Published: 06.06.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The local newspaper 'Sogns Tidend' was published in the years between 1877 and 1947 - the first few decades in Lærdal, but from 1903 in Sogndal. Durin...

The memorial stone from Nornes at Sogn Folkemuseum

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 18.06.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
At Nornes in Sogndal there used to be three ancient memorial stones. Bishop Neuman refers to three of these in the early 19th century. I. C. Dahl pain...

Remnants of a concrete base on the island of Silda - traces of an unusual shipwreck

Ulukke / Accident
Published: 14.01.2004
Author: Gunnar Silden Hermund Kleppa
On the night of 13 January 1925, SS "Aladdin" ran aground on the eastern side of Silda. The whole crew survived this dramatic accident, but it meant t...

The newspaper Firdaposten

Avis / Newspaper
Published: 20.06.2005
Author: Rolf Orheim Hermund Kleppa
Firdaposten issued two papers in 1948, and this is then the year the paper was established. During the first few years, the paper was published twice ...

Mate from Florø - on a memorial plaque in Bergen

Plakett / Plaque
Published: 24.01.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, more than 2000 Norwegian seamen lost their lives at sea. Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab (BDS - The Berge...

The Ervik service - a centuries-old tradition

Festival / Festival
Published: 19.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 2003, a large number of people attended the Ervik service. The vicar gave a brief account of the tradition around this annual sermon ...

War graves on Shetland - captain Kristoffer Lutenthun

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 17.03.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On 3 February 1940, the SS "Hop" left Bergen for England in ballast. The boat never got there. Three weeks later, the newspaper Firda Folkeblad had a ...

The old vaulted bridge at Maurstad

Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the night of 11 October 1984, the more than 100-year-old vaulted bridge at Maurstad collapsed. A road-historical cultural monument was suddenly gon...

Bergesfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...

Espevik

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...

Eldsfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Håkon Austrheim
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...

Lurøyane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Manger

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Mangerite is a rock type that was first made famous in a treatise by the Bergen geologist Carl Fredrik Kolderup in 1903. The rock type got its name fr...

Stall

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The Bergen Arcs have an unusually sharp boundary to the bedrock in the east. Geologists think that this was caused by movements in the earth's crust d...

Vågenes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than ...

The farmyard tree at Skorpeidet - memorial tree for a navy serviceman

Plante / Plant
Published: 20.02.2004
Author: Malvin Toft Hermund Kleppa
''Close to the house was a birch so wide / there the magpies had their old nest,'' sings Ivar Aasen in his song Gamle garden. (The old farm). In forme...

The Solveigsæter legend - a dramatic love story across county borders

Sagn / Legend
Published: 21.02.2001
Author: Rigmor Navekvien (1935 - ) Hermund Kleppa
County and municipal borders have never constituted any barriers or fences between people. People have always had contact across the borders - more or...

"Gardfjøs" with bear protection at Kleivane

Gardshus / Farm house
Published: 21.02.2001
Author: Rigmor Navekvien (1935 - ) Hermund Kleppa
Fagerlia is located close to one kilometre from Totland (RV 15) on the road up to the farm Fagerlia. In former times most farmers at Totland had a "ga...

War grave memorial in Førde - Torberg Haaland

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 03.02.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Engineer and pilot officer Torberg Haaland was one of two from Førde who lost their lives in the service of their country during the Second World Wa...

Memorial stone for Ragnar Melvær

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 05.09.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"Youths erected this stone in gratitude for your loyalty to many good causes". These words are carved into the memorial stone for Ragnar Melvær on t...

Room to commemorate Russian prisoners of war

People and Society
Minne / Reminder
Published: 12.05.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
After the Second World War, 21 corpses were found at the camp for prisoners of war at Ervik in Selje. They were first buried on the graveyard at Ervik...

Memorial stone at the Bremanger church for those who died in action

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
At the Bremanger church at Bremangerlandet there is a memorial stone commemorating those who died in the Second World War from the former municipality...

Memorial for those who died in the war at the marketplace in Måløy

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the former municipality of Sør-Vågsøy, 17 men and women died in wartime actions during the Second World War. 16 of these lost their lives due to wa...

Memorial in Florø commemorating those who died in the war 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the park by Florø church stands a towering memorial in commemoration of those who lost their lives in the war 1940-1945. "Our dead deserve a dign...

Memorial commemorating those who died during the Second World War - at Stavang church

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the road up to the Stavang church there is a memorial stone. The names of five men are carved into the more than two-metre-high stone. Three ...

Fishermen monument at Nord-Vågsøy church

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
At Nord-Vågsøy church, there is a memorial for fishermen who are lost at sea. It was erected by local people in 1998....

Memorial stone on the grave of Martin Luther Storm, principal of agricultural school

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 03.02.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Martin Luther Storm, born 1836, is one of the most important names in the history of the agricultural schools in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. When ...

The memorial at Ospa - the MTB 345 tragedy

People and Society
Slag / Battle
Published: 20.04.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On Monday 28 July, 2003 a memorial of a wartime occurrence was unveiled in Solund. It was sixty years to a day after the seizure of the Norwegian moto...

Memorial commemorating the museum founder - landowner G. F. Heiberg

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 27.11.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
At the entrance to the museum "De Heibergske Samlinger - Sogn Folkemuseum" at Kaupangerskogen there is a memorial commemorating the founder, landowner...

Memorial at Rugsund church for war victims in the Second World War

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 16.12.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The 19-year-old Johan Friis from Rugsund died in the first Norwegian shipwreck after the Second World War broke out in 1939. In 1994, the Rugsund "sok...

Memorial stone on the war grave at Reksta - shipmaster Bernhard Reksten

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.04.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the spring of 1942, 10 Norwegian ships left Gothenburg heading for England. Only two managed to break through the German blockade. Many ships were ...

Memorial commemorating shipwreck at Vågsøy 1931

People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 16.09.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In December 1931, the Panama-registered wessel "Venus" was wrecked off Vågsøy. Only two out of a crew of 13 were rescued. Nine men hailed from Shetlan...

Memorial stone commemorating the teachers training college student - Tomas Fondenæs

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 24.06.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the oldest part of the churchyard at Norum church there is a somewhat tall, obelisk-shaped memorial stone. The inscription indicates that a student...

Memorial stone for Ivar and Andrine Svardal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.10.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 1956, the temperance people in the municipalities of Brekke and Gulen met at Rutledal. There was a special solemn atmosphere that day...

Memorial stone for Edvin Færøy

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.10.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Edvin Færøy lost his life in action in Valdres on 20 April 1940. He was first buried in Valdres but was later moved home and buried on the churchyard ...

Road stone monument at Standal - and road history source material

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 29.06.2005
Author: Odd Standal Hermund Kleppa
On the boundary between Øvre (Upper) Standal and Nedre (Lower) Standal there is a road stone monument. The year 1904 and the number 230 are carved int...

Monument commemorating Georg Distad

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 19.04.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On an oval-shaped stone on a grave at Fjærland church we find this inscription: GEORG DISTAD * BORN 18. June, 1915 * DIED IN ACTION IN * VALDRES 2...

Memorial stone commemorating those who lost their lives during the Second World War from Selje.

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
18 persons from Selje lost their lives as a consequence of the Second World War. Many of these were seamen. The people of Selje erected the memorial...

The mountain farms at Lidal

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Støl / Mountain farm
Published: 03.12.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The isolated farm of Lidal is situated down towards the sea on the east side of the Fjærlandsfjord. A narrow and steep valley leads up to the more o...

The fishermen monument at Bremanger

People and Society
Fiske / Fishing Monument / Monument
Published: 06.12.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1962, Amanda Igland in the Bremanger Fiskarkvinnelag (an association of fishermen's wives) launched the idea of erecting a memorial plaque at the...

1905 - Gjert Holsen, member of the Storting

Unionen oppløses 1905
Person / Person Politikk / Politics Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 06.12.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution in the Storting on 7 June. This article is abou...

1905 - The Storting representative Ivar Lind

Unionen oppløses 1905
Person / Person Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 06.12.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting resolution of 7 June. This artic...

1905 in Florø - memories from that year written 40 years later

Unionen oppløses 1905
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.01.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent nation. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Norwegian Storting's resolution of 7 June....