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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...
Farmers and Settlements
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
From 4,500 to 5,000 years ago most of Hordaland was a landscape of forest, right out to the coast and the islands. With our inner eye we can see old o...
Hausberget
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Årsand
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shal...
Tjernagel
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn ...
Borgåsen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Bjørn Myhre
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and ...
Helgaberget
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is...
Fitjar - the King's farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most...
Rimsvarden
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Rimsvarden lies high and unencumbered, an enormous stone mound on the highest top with a wide view of the Fitjar rural community. With its 30 meters a...
Hystad - burial mounds
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The biggest collection of prehistoric burial relics in Stord is to be found in Hystadmarka. There are still 16 burial mounds and two stone rings visib...
Hæreid - archaeology
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie...
Grødalshaug
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of...
Dale farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...
Stamnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Ågot Gammersvik
Øystein Jansen
Hopland
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Svein Indrelid
The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in ...
Ramsøy
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Nils Georg Brekke
“At thick of night a thundering knock on the door; the man in the house wakes up, jumps out and demands: Who cries? Yes, now you must out, the beacon ...
Høybøen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kjersti Randers
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...
Landa
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
STRANDFLAT AND SCREE BY LAND...
Nordhuglo
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Hop - The royal mounds
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Tyssøy
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church ...
Risøya
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Hjartøy
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigmund Alsaker
A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....
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 ...
Samnøya
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
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...
Eidsbøen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...
Os valley
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Døso
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Gerd Bolstad
On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...
Vargavågen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Gerd Bolstad
Tor Lunde
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...
Straumen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Vangdal
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Nils Georg Brekke
At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has bee...
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...
Gramshaug
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Lyngholmen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Vikse
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
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...
The Halsnøy Boat
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Arne Emil Christensen
Sydnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
COASTAL STONE CAIRNS AT HALSNØYA ...
Halne
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle...
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...
Varberg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Vikingnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
STONE MOUNDS ALONG THE FJORD ...
Bakko
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the Nationa...
Håhaugsteinen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kinsarvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketi...
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...
The forgotten saga
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The saga regarding the settlement of Hordaland started off about 10,000 years ago. Most of this saga has been recorded in writing, not on paper, but o...
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 ...
Rambjørg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...
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...
Raknes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...
Høvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...
Byrkjehaugen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
On the farm Bø, close to the highway between Bulken and Voss lies Byrkjehaugen, one of the largest burial mounds in West Norway. Originally it was aro...
Olavskrossen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Johannes Gjerdåker
Sledasteinen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
“THE DANCERS” ON THE SLEDA STONE...
Women's graves at Skaim- settlement for 15 centuries
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 08.12.2005
Author:
Svein Indrelid
In the spring of 1964 there was some cultivation work going on at the farm of Skaim. This work included removing some rock heaps left from clearing th...
Mula
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Johannes Gjerdåker
MULA – A DESERTED FARM FROM THE MIDDLE AGES...
Gjøstein
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Seberg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
HALLSTATT - LEKVE ...
Hallingskeid
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE MARKETPLACE AT HALLINGSKEID ...
Sponheim
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Trå
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
A WOMAN’S GRAVE FROM VIKING TIMES In a woman’s grave on the farm Trå remains of a bronze ladle and runic inscriptions were found many years ago. Buri...
Ålvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
BRONZE FIND FROM ÅLVIK...
Rosseland
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Around 50 years ago a runic stone came to light in a barn wall at Rosseland. On one of the flat sides 25 runic signs had been carved. The letters are ...
Årbakka - The prehistoric site
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through t...
Dalland
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Harald Dalland
Arne Emil Christensen
Hamn
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE BOATSHED AT HAMN ...
Fosnstraumen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Anne Karin Hufthammar
Knut Andreas Bergsvik
At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” he...
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...
Fløksand
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...
Leiro
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Mangersnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Bård Kolflåth
SMALL BOATS IN THE IRON AGE At Mangersnes, in a bog just by the sea, there is a layer about one metre thick with wood that has traces of cutting, sh...
Seim
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat he...
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...
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes
Themes
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Svein Indrelid
The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy...
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