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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...

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...

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 ...

Memorial stone at Leikanger church in Selje

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 09.08.2002

Author: Hermund Kleppa

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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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