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Earth and stone

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes...

Hausberget

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Kråkenes lighthouse

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1906, a lighthouse station was built at Kråkenes under pressure from the Kristiansund Skipper Association. The lighthouse is located to the west of...

Boat-landing facilities at Kråkenes

Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The people of Kråkenes have always been faced with bad landing sites. There were five known sites: Storehola, Keila, Stiksvika, Bleke and Synstestøa...

The old Kvalheim road

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The village of Kvalheim has the ocean as its next-door neighbour and the landing conditions have always proved difficult in bad weather. There was a s...

The old road between Rimstad and Berstad

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Between the farms of Rimstad and Berstad there used to be an old road, used by pilgrims, postmen and local people alike. There are still many traces o...

The pilots on the island of Silda

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In former times pilots lived on the island of Silda. The northern harbour was a "waiting harbour" for ships heading north past Stad. In bad weather ...

The stone walls at Kvalheim

Steingjerde / Stone fence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The village of Kvalheim is situated north of the bay of Kvalheimsvika on the western shoreline of the island of Vågsøya. In 1900, 188 persons lived th...

The stone house at Åsnes

Gardshus / Farm house
Published: 19.02.2001
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
At Åsnes between Bryggja and Lefdal there is a two-storey house with stonewalls all the way up to the roof ridge. Malvin J. Aasnes used to own the f...

The fire at Refvika in 1872

Brann / Fire
Published: 21.02.2001
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The village of Refvika is located between the beach of Refviksanden to the northwest and the lake of Refvikvatnet to the southeast. Up until 1872, a...

Landa

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
STRANDFLAT AND SCREE BY LAND...

Møshovd

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Peter Emil Kaland
Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...

Skjelbreid

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...

Vinnesleira

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland
Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...

Grasdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
MARBLE AND KARST ...

Lona

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

Os valley

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Eikelandsosen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...

Hystad - the black alder forest

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjelan
One of the biggest black alder forests in the country is in Hystadmarkjo. Along the well prepared trail through the forest you can experience an excep...

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 ...

Fitjar - potatoes

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The deep agricultural soils in Fitjar are found especially in the area between Lake Storavatnet and Breivika. The many stonewalls in the area reflect ...

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 ...

Fossen Bratte

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

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 ...

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...

Ølve

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foun...

Ænesdalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...

Ulvanosa

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Some mountains have rounded shapes, while others have steep slopes and sharp edges. Ulvanosa (1246 mos.) has both. The forms reflect the type of bedro...

Langhaugane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE MORAINE RIDGES AT LANGHAUGANE ...

Skorpo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater ...

Halsnøy

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Bree...

The village of Etne

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Sveil Olaf Dahl Inge Aarseth
Much of the sand and gravel that the town of Etne is built on was laid down at the end of the Ice Age and is evidence of melting glaciers and roaring ...

Skånevik - moraine

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
In Skånevik there are marks left from the ice edge that advanced during the thousand-year cold spell (Younger Dryas) that marked the end of the Ice Ag...

Åsane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...

Vidden

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

Tokagjelet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of th...

Steinsdalsfossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen Inge Aarseth
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...

Fyksesundet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
"GIANT FEMALE TROLL" ...

Fykse

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
LANDSLIDE AT FYKSE ...

Folgefonna

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...

Haugsdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
Early in the 1900s there were much larger salt water deltas in Hordaland. But, essentially all of the larger river deltas got filled in and regulated ...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Dyrdal

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...

Storavatnet - shoreline

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The regulation of Lake Storavatnet has created a rare geological phenomenon: When Herlandsfossen power station taps the reservoir during the spring an...

Mostraumen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back acro...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

Nedre Helland - skred

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and t...

Eksingedalen - landscape

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...

Skjervet - river theft

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...

Mundheim

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe
At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...

Rindarne moraine

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
MORAINE RIDGES The Rindarne moraine is visible from the right stretch of road in Eikedalen, toward Kvamskogen. Northeast of Lake Eikedalstvatnet it s...

Leirvågen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
A marsh is a grassy meadow that is strongly influenced by salt from the sea. This type of nature is abundant in Denmark, among other places. The flatl...

Opedal

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
FRUIT-GROWING ON FLOOD DEPOSITS The old road through Opedal and Helland in Lofthus gives a beautiful introduction to the Fruit Kingdom, both when in ...

Velure

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Inge Aarseth
ANNUAL AVALANCHES South of Velure the mountainsides plunge from 1500 metres right down into Sørfjorden. No place along the fjord has snow avalanches ...

Opo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...

Låtefossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...

Grytøyrelva

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...

Tussafoten

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Måbødalen - geology

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terr...

Mjølfjell

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

Jordalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
During the last ice ages, parts of the Voss river system were stolen and sent down Nærøydalen valley to Nærøy Fjord (Nærøyfjorden). Before this big ri...

Bømoen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Bordalsgjelet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...

Teigdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
It is not surprising that there are several folk tales connected to the large and unusual scree deposit that is found at Langeland, uppermost in Teigd...

Ulvik-village

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The ice cap that covered the land during each of the 40 past ice ages over the past 2 million years of Earth's history pressed down the crust of the e...

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...

Fruo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, ...

The big "river theft" in the valley of Nærøydalen

Naturformasjon / Natural structure
Published: 19.05.2005
Author: Inge Aarseth
The river of Nærøydalselvi has not always been as big as it is today. Throughout the last few ice ages it has stolen many tributary rivers which previ...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Sysendalen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...

Langavassfjellet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
ESKERS ...

The bailiff's estate at Askelund

Bolig / Residence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
About one kilometre from Balestrand towards Kvamsøy we find a beautiful building by the fjord. This is the old Bailiff residence - called Futegarden -...

The artist Hans Dahl

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Hans Dahl from Granvin in Hardanger, built a summer resort in Balestrand in 1893. From 1919 he lived in Balestrand all year round. Dahl painted the sp...

Villa Lorna

Bolig / Residence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Villa Lorna is the only "Swiss" villa in Balestrand, which is built above the main road. However, the fjord is only a short distance away and the view...

The Artist Eilert Adelsteen Normann

Bolig / Residence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1848-1918) was going to be a merchant like his father, but ended up in Düsseldorf as an artist. He stayed in Germany for the...

Gertrude Abbott

Bolig / Residence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Gertrude Abbott (1866 - 1951) came from Philadelphia, USA. When she came to Norway and Balestrand, she fell in love with the place. She returned every...

Rystestøylen mountain farm

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Støl / Mountain farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Rystestøylen is an old mountain farm for the farms at Raudeberg. There could be as many as 40 cows there in the summer. Girls from the farms took care...

The scenes in the village hall Bygdetun

Måleri / Painting
Published: 21.02.2001
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
When the old Bygdetun village hall was opened at Bryggja in 1935, people could also admire the beautiful scenes painted by the Nordfjord artist Erli...

Husebø

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
When the Corncrake returned to Nordhordland, it came as no surprise that Husebø was the place it chose. Here, remnants of the old cultural landscape a...

Leiro

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Romarheimsdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Isdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...

Mountain farming in the valley of Skogadalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Støl / Mountain farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Until the 1920s, the villages of Allmenningen and Eldevika had a common mountain farm in Skogadalen in the former municipality of Davik. In the 1920s,...

1905 - The municipality of Selje

Unionen oppløses 1905
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting¿s parliamentary resolution on 7 June. This ...

1905 - Vågsøy municipality

Unionen oppløses 1905
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 16.03.2005
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by a parliamentary resolution of the Norwegian S...