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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...

Paul Berstad - local singer and folk-tune collector

People and Society

Musikk / Music Person / Person

Published: 28.09.1999

Author: Liv Fridtun (1970 - )

Paul Berstad (1908-1993) was an excellent local singer, and, in addition, he was an important source for the folk-tune tradition in the western part o...

Skjeggedal

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Selje church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Selje church is a wooden longchurch located north of the Seljesanden beach in the municipality of Selje. The church, with a seating capacity of 500,...

Leikanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Leikanger church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Leikanger on the eastern side of Stadtlandet in the municipality of Selje. The churc...

Forest and memorial stone at Ersholmen

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen

On the small island of Ersholmen between the mainland and the island of Selja the first attempt at afforestation at Selje was carried out by the vicar...

Dragseidet

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Historisk monument / Historical monument

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Dragseidet occupies a famous place in Norwegian history due to one major event: the christening assembly in 997, when King Olaf Tryggvason assembled i...

Hardangervidda – Crossing the Uplands

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per M. Bremnes

Slepa, the ancient “drove roads” across the plateau, date back to prehistoric times. Through the centuries cattle have been driven to the markets in t...

Hordaland – a historic region

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir Atle Ersland

“It was on such a chilly, silver-grey morning that the Hørde folk, the Harudes of Caesar and Tacitus, must have come running in from the sea on the wi...

Lykling - soapstone

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

SOAPSTONE FOR BERGEN'S CHURCHES ...

Rosesmuggrenden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett

THE COMMUNITIES AROUND SANDVIKEN...

Kvernhusvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Ness

Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Lavik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Egil Johansen

THE LAYMAN CHIEFTAINS FROM LAVIK...

The old warning beacons in Selje

Historisk monument / Historical monument

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen

In former times burning beacons formed part of a network of warning system that the enemy was on their way. At times of unrest and national emergencie...

Ålmerket

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

LARS KINSARVIK AND TROND LARSSON HUS I stova si på Ålmerket i Kinsarvik dreiv Trond Larsson Hus (1806–1878) i mange år ei blømande handelsverksemd. H...

Selje vicarage

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen

The vicarage at Selje has long-established traditions dating back to the Middle Ages, with the first written reference about 1350. The old name of the...

Støle

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

High above the sea and the beach flats, on one of the wide terraces shaped by the sea and the ice, lies the farm Støle (Stødle). The Old Norse name of...

Slåtterøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Bømlahamn

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Støle church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

The stone church at Støle may have been built around 1160 probably as a private chapel for the mighty Stødle clan. It is likely that it was Erling Ska...

Grindheim church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

The first church at Grindheim was a stave church with a free-standing steeple. The church was first mentioned in 1326, but was probably built long bef...

Skånevik - the trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

There are only two buildings left of the old trading and guesthouse settlement in Skånevik. They are in the centre, close to the main road passing thr...

Memorial stone for Johannes Haarklou

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 04.12.2001

Author: Hermund Kleppa

Johannes Haarklou (1847-1925), born at Hårklau in Haukedalen, is one of the most versatile music composers Norway ever had. He studied in Germany an...

Kyrping

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the lib...

Halsnøy Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the ...

Fjelberg

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The beautiful vicarage on the Fjelberg Island lies a few minutes walk up from the fjord, in a compact enclosure with the church south of the main buil...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland

In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rød

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1969 Sigurd and Margreta Dønhaug donated a collection of around 170 historical cultural objects to Kvinnherad municipality. They wanted their gift ...

Rosendal Barony

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Per Jahn Lavik Anne Grete Honerød

The Barony of Rosendal lies in the grounds of the old noble estate of Hatteberg, on the north side of the Hatteberg river, around one kilometre up fro...

Kvinnherad Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden

The stately Kvinnherad Church with its characteristic profile set out against the mighty Malmangernuten in the background, gives you a rare feeling of...

Ænes

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Ænes has been one of the prosperous farms at the Mauranger Fjord in medieval times. At the time of Harald Gilles, around 1130, we hear of GAUT at Ænes...

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...

Espevær - the Trading Post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kari Shetelig Hovland

In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local c...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

Moster - The old church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden

Moster is mentioned as a church site already in the time of Olav Tryggvason. According to the sagas the king is supposed to have laid the foundations ...

Mosterhamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through...

The Great Landowners, Gentry and Monasteries

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ernst Berge Drange

REGIONS, ESTATES AND A GOOD MARRIAGE “The aristocracy is a gang of rough, impudent blokes. They came here to the country and make a lot of themselves...

Ryvarden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the Islandic Landnåmabok there is a story that the explorer Floke Vilgjerdsson built a cairn “where meetest Hordaland and Rogaland” and the cairn w...

The cannery at Askvoll

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Sunnfjord Fabrikk / Factory Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

When Norway Foods' cannery at Askvoll was closed down in 1992, the production of sardines had gone on for a longer time at Askvoll that at any other p...

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 fallen soldiers - from Værlandet and Bulandet

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 07.07.1999

In the churchyard at Værlandet there is a memorial stone for fallen soldiers from Værlandet and Bulandet. The stone stands on the grave of one of them...

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 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...

Årskog

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll

Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm ...

Engesund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Erik Gilj

For more than 350 years Engesund has been a place for hostelries and trading in the Fitjar islands. The place is centrally placed in the shipping lane...

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 ...

In Memory of Fartein Valen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ronny B. Skaar Bjarne Kortsen

“Fartein Valen is the key figure within newer Norwegian music. Not by way of being more popular than other younger composers, but because he aims at t...

Einstapevoll - the farm

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Einstapevoll (from einstape: “bregne” (fern)) lies on the west side of the Tittelsnes peninsula. Up to 1831 the farm was a vicarage belonging to Stord...

Haugsbø

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The single unit farm without a road to it, Haugsbø, is situated on the east side of the Tittelsnes peninsula facing Ålfjorden. As far back as the Mid...

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...

Sæbøtunet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Mo

When you come into the well-tended farm steading at Sæbø just above Etne centre, you get the impression of a Sunnhordland farm from well before the ti...

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...

Names in the Landscape

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Botolv Helleland

A tale of man and the environment...

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...

Brandasund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On Gisøya Island, on the west side of Brandasund Sound, there is a very privileged trading post and traveller's Inn from the 1600s, with the North Sea...

Leirvik - The prison

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The district prison in Leirvik officially started operations in 1863. Together with the corresponding institutions in Voss and Bergen, this was Søndre...

Sagvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Egil Nysæter

The pit saw on the property of the farm Valvatna, is the origin of the name Sagvåg. The sawmill is mentioned as early as 1564. The name of the place a...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

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...

Sørhuglo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The tax collector’s farm at Sørhuglo is one of the many farms for state employees in Hordaland. According to history, “Futastovo” was built by the tax...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

Vingen rock-carving site

Archaeology

Historisk plass / Historical site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

The Vingen site is today the second biggest rock-carving field in Norway with some 2000 figures. Nevertheless, it was a stroke of good luck that made ...

The burial mounds at Botnane

People and Society

Gravplass / Cementery Historisk plass / Historical site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

On the mainland side of Bremanger, close to the border to the municipality of Flora, lies the hamlet of Botnane with the farms of Øvrebotnen, Sørbotne...

Hjølmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the steep hillside in Hjølmodalen, a small side valley from Øvre Eidfjord (Upper Eidfjord), which has been a key entrance to the Hardanger Plateau,...

Vetvik - the big farm that was deserted

People and Society

Grend / Hamlet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

On the northwest coast of Bremangerlandet - with the ocean as its neighbour, we find the deserted hamlet of Vetvik. Earlier this was a small rural com...

The fisherman shacks at Liset

People and Society

Fiske / Fishing Grend / Hamlet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

On the western side of the farm Liset at Bremanger, there is a peaceful place. Only a few old foundation walls remain, bearing witness to hectic ac...

Monument commemorating Georg Distad

People and Society

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone

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...

The mountain farm of Myklebustsætra at Ålfoten

People and Society

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

On the road between Ålfoten and Svelgen is the valley of Myklebustdalen with the mountain farm of Myklebustsætra located close to the lake of Sætrav...

Måbø

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

Måbø is the uppermost farm in Måbødalen. This narrow and steep mountain valley has been one of the routes from the fjord communities up to the mountai...

"Knut" and two other six-oared boats

Communications

Båt / Boat Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

The "Sunnfjord boat" used to be the common boat type in the Sunnfjord area, but already 150 years ago, it was beginning to lose ground to a modified...

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...

The German coastal artillery fortifications at Tangane

People and Society

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kjell-Ragnar Berge

In the autumn of 1940, The German navy started the construction of a coastal fort at Tangane. The construction work was led by Germans, but much work ...

The Bakkejekta sloop

Communications

Båt / Boat Hamn / Port Handel / Trade

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gaute Losnegård

To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...

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...

Agastølen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Whoever wanders the mountain plateau will form time to time hit upon old mountain summer farms, with solid old stone sheds, half sunk into the ground;...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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

People and Society

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone

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 ...

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...

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

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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...

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

Landscape

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...

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...

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 for Anders Askevold

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 13.11.2001

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The painter Anders Askevold (1834-1900) is best known for his animal motifs. "A specialist of high rank in the painting of animals", is the characte...

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...

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...

Kjeåsen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

High up above the fjord, at a height of 600m lie the two holdings at Kjeåsen. Today you can drive there by car, through a new tunnel that the power en...

Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary

People and Society

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...

War remnants at Rutledal

People and Society

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kjell-Ragnar Berge

As early as in May 1940, the Germans came to Rutledal and built a land-based facility for launching torpedoes. Later on they started building a coasta...

Brekke church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Brekke church is a longchurch built in wood, located in the village of Brekke on the Risnesfjord in the municipality of Gulen. The church has a seat...

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...

The old schoolhouse at Hardbakke

People and Society

Skulehus / School building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Hardbakke was the second place in Solund which had a schoolhouse. From 1870 onwards, the schoolchildren could climb up the stone steps to a spacious c...

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...

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 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...

Demographic Growth – A Drive to Development

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ståle Dyrvik

The cultural landscape or that part of it which is still green and inviting to the eye has been shaped by the farmers’ toil down through the generatio...

Bakholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar

On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this w...

Hufthammar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Johan Haugland

Farming in Austevoll has nearly all been in combination with fishing as the main industry. The farms in the district are therefore small, even in a we...

Krosshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Krosshamn lies in the shipping lane northeast of Hundvåkøy, near Sandtorv. The name probably derives from the fact that this is Austevoll’s harbour si...

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...

Mariakirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen ...

Bryggen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In the 1300s Bergen was a trading centre of European dimension. The town is thought to have had around 7000 inhabitants and was the largest and most i...

Vågsbunnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Vågsbotn was the name of the innermost part of the eastern part of town from Auta-almenning (today’s Vetrlidsalmenning), skirting the bottom of Vågen ...

Strandsiden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

During the 1300s Strandsiden changed from a rural area with a monastery to a pulsating trading centre with boathouses, storehouses and embankment....

Verftet

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard wa...

Bergen – The Urban Community

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Bergen - our first royal residence city – has for centuries been Norway’s, and for long periods, Scandinavia’s biggest city. The historical monuments ...

The City and the Stril country

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Bjarne Fossen

The relationship between Bergen and its neighbouring districts, normally known as “Strilelandet”, has, over the centuries, given rise to greater confl...

Sandviken

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett

Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced...

Alvøen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for...

Damsgård

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

As a fairytale castle Damsgård Hovedgård lies on the slope rising up from the Puddefjord. The old connection between the farm and the sea, as we see i...

Salhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Salhus has been a connecting point for sea travellers far back in time. The name probably derives from the Old Norse word sáluhús, “house for travell...

Arnatveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in th...

Stend

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garden Stend høyrde i mellomalderen til Nonneseter kloster. Etter reformasjonen var han i eiga til Vincents Lunge fram til 1680. Då overtok generaltol...

Transport and Communication

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bård Kolltveit Erling Virkesdal Anders K. Engevik

THE FJORD STEAMER BOAT “On the quay at Bergen, there lay a boat, So beautifully polished that it shone, With fine masts and a funnel with tone...

Fana church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Frederik Konow Lund

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In the Middle Ages the stone church in Fana was a place for pilgrimage, containing a miraculous silver crucifix that could heal the sick. A hill to th...

Farmers from the Fjords

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Kåre Engevik

Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, tu...

From “Spearway” to National Highway

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Johannes Gjerdåker

1. “SPEARWAY (public road), tracks to the mountain pasture and cattle tracks shall remain as they were from ancient time). 2.When the spearway runs ac...

Strusshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

On the south side of Askøy, just west of Bergen, lies Strusshamn. The sheltered bay is one of the best harbours in Byfjorden, on the route south. At t...

Sailing Sloops and Boat Building

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Kolle

Marine activities expanded greatly throughout the 19th century, and provided a livelihood for many people. Fishing and shipping were probably the subs...

Hop - Thomas Erichsens Minde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

From the 1500s Hop was noble estate for the law speaker in Bergen and Gulen judicial districts. Several of the law speakers were of noble descent, suc...

Lyse Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Marit Nybø

Lysøen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland Stephan Tschudi Madsen

Lysøen, this fairytale castle with its Russian-inspired onion dome on the corner turret, stands as a reminder of the diversity of the period called Hi...

The waterfalls in the valley of Nærøydalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Foss / Waterfall

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

The impressive waterfalls in the innermost part of Nærøydalen - Sivlefossen and Stalheimsfossen are famous tourist attractions. They are both examples...

The Church and the Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Hans Emil Lidén

THE MOVING FORCE IN LOCAL SOCIETY “I recall the church’s exterior, the black tar-clad timber walls with the black pan tiles; I remember it made a glo...

Engevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Halfway into the Sævareidfjord lies the officer’s farm Engevik. In the beginning of the 1700s the farm was in part estate of the crown and owned by fa...

The waterfalls in Flåm and along the Aurlandsfjord

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Foss / Waterfall

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

In the valley of Flåmsdalen and along the Aurlandsfjord the landscape is dominated by a number of waterfalls. Some of them are among the most famous t...

Engevikhavn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre develope...

Beitelen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fjell / Mountain

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

Beitelen is one of the most famous landmarks in the Nærøyfjorden World Heritage area. The characteristic mountain top offers an excellent view of the ...

Holdhus church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Marta Hoff

The old church at Holdhus is one of the oldest timbered churches left in the west of Norway. The new church at Eide, built in 1889, replaced the churc...

Øpstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Samson L. Øpstad

The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, b...

Holsund

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kvalvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kvalvåg on Stolmen is first mentioned as a trading post in 1655, and in 1731 the owner Jens Meyer, was granted a royal trading privilege....

Berge

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Olav Tveiten

Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and r...

Bru

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a traditi...

Tangarås

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settle...

Nes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Nes lies directly inside Mundheim on a forested headland in the fjord between Mundheimsvika and Bondesundet, a farm with an attractive and we...

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...

Straume - Salmon

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

From times immemorial salmon and trout have been caught with various tools in the fjord and the streams here. Finds in the Stone Age settlements at Sk...

Stamnes

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

Gullbrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

From written sources we know that the farm Gullbrå was in use early in the 1600s. The Apostolic church in Bergen owned land here that it rented out, b...

Bolstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

The village at Bolstadøyri acquired its structure around the middle of the 1800s, but from the old days there has been a meeting place here; court loc...

Evanger

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Evanger (from Old Norse ålvangr, “vang”, “voll” (field) where the horses may graze) is the place where the river from Vangsvatnet, the Voss watercours...

Vik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Vik in Jondal has been one of the earliest settled farms in Jondal; a good and fertile farm east of the river. Legends hold that mighty men h...

Torsnes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Leif Galtung

When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process ...

Svåsand

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along...

Herand - Tveiti sawmill

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sverre Haugen Amund Tveiten

Tveiti sawmill in Herand is probably the last water-powered sash-saw in the country that has been in regular operation up to our time. There has been ...

Kvilekvål

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker Aslak L.Hellev

The story of Knute Nelson is like the story of Jack the Dullard. From narrow and poor conditions in his home country he worked his way up to become go...

Hesthamar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjarne Sørensen

Hesthamar, some kilometres north of Utne, is one of the oldest residences for a district recorder in the country. In 1637, barely 50 years after the o...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

Utne

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

When sergeant Peder Larsen Børsem from Strandebarm was “demobilised” in 1721, following the large Nordic War, he married the Bergen lady Elisabeth Sch...

Finne

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Peter Bonde, who owned Finne towards the end of the 1200s, had a jumping stag in his family emblem. This stag is the origin for the heraldic blazon of...

Vangskyrkja

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidé

Vangskyrkja (Vangen church) is the largest of the medieval churches in Hordaland; one of the four “fjordung” churches in the county. A royal letter fr...

Jåstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Jåstad, situated a few kilometres north of Agatunet, must have been a grand farm in medieval times. Torolf on Jåstad is mentioned as arbitrat...

Aga

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustere...

Mølster

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

“Above the old Vossevangen lies the old Mølster family farm. It is situated on a hill, as family farms will do. It is as if chance has wanted to make ...

Fjose

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

The farm Fjose lies uppermost in Tjukkebygdi, one of the good grain farms on the sunny side here. The woodcarver Styrk Fjose (1873-1937) came from thi...

Ringheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

The farm Ringheim by Lundarvatnet is amongst the largest in Voss. It is divided into eight units and four cadastral numbers: Store Ringheim, Indre Rin...

The School

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Asbjørn Tveiten

The little white painted school house, the village school, often set between knolls and little woods in the outer fields, placed as centrally as possi...

Local Dialects in Hordaland

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Helge Sandøy

Language tells us both about social distance and human contact in many different ways. The dialects show how people who have had connections and deali...

The Literary Landscape

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Idar Stegane

Naturopplevinga hjå lyrikarane våre gjev ofte vår eiga landskapsoppleving ein djupare resonnans-botn, men styrken i naturens krefter kjem også fram, ...

The Artist and his Experience of Nature

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Gunnar Danbolt

På ferd mot vest over Hardangervidda opplever vi det dramatiske panoramaet når vidda går over i djupe bergkløfter og høge fossefall – eit utsyn som ha...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby

Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

Herdlevær

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ronny B. Skaar

Herdlevær lies on one of the small islands west of Hjeltefjorden, facing the North Sea and the big ocean. Today you may arrive there by car. The numer...

Hjelmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From...

Hernar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favour...

The Women in Farmhouse Life

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Eldbjørg Fossgard Ågot Gammersvik

Kvinnene hadde ein sentral plass i det gamle bondesamfunnet. Fiskarbonden på kysten og langs fjordane var ofte ei kvinne, og i mangesysleriet på garda...

The Warp-Weighted Loom - A thousand year tradition in weaving

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ivar Skre

The art of spinning, the art of weaving and the art of dyeing wool is knowledge which has been an important resource in the natural household for seve...

Vernacular arts and crafts

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

“Stay in the Peace of the Lord from the evil Eye of Envy as the Envied Earth will not let itself be ploughed. Here I eat my bread here I fear my ...

The Wooden Calendar - Tradition and popular belief

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Brynjulf Alver

The old Norwegian farmers’ calendar, the wooden calendar staff, follows the Norse system of reckoning time, and divides the year into a summer half, a...

Folk Music and the Hardanger Fiddle

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jostein Mæland

It is in Hordaland County that we find the oldest traces of a folk music stemming from our national instrument, the Hardanger fiddle. And it is still ...

The Norwegian Language Movement and the Two High Cultures

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Wigdis Jorunn Espeland

The year 1849 was the breakthrough year for the National Romantic movement in Norway. It was in that year that Ole Bull, the renowned fiddler brought ...

The Chapel and the Layman’s Movement

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Karl Egil Johansen

Den kristelege lekmannsrørsla, den frilynde norskdomsrørsla og den politiske sosialradikalismen er ideologiske motpolar, men kulturelt og politisk er ...

Møvik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

In the winter of 1849 the impoverished Fjell municipality was forced to put money into new burial places at Møvik and Bildøydalen, because of the ragi...

Holmen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

HOLMEN AND THE KØLLE FAMILY Holmen lies by the fjord, innermost in Ulvikpollen. Originally this was a small smallholding or coast dweller’s place b...

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 ...

Kjelstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic ...

Krossøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy...

Kræmmerholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged...

The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn

“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...

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