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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...

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...

Water level marks in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 19.12.2001
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
Along the entire Norwegian coast, so-called water level marks were chopped into the rock in the 19th century. 123 such marks are known today, and two ...

Clip fish-drying in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 19.12.2001
Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

The Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society
Øy / Island
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...

1905 - Solund Municipality

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

Memorial stone over fallen on Hersvik churchyard

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

Memorial stone over fallen on Solund churchyard at Hardbakke

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

Memorial stone for fallen on Husøy churchyard at Straumen

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

Boga

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the lightly undulating landscape at Boga there lies an old house with several rooms on a small rise. In fact it looks like three houses built into ...

Alverstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The hostelry in Alverstraumen was in operation in 1660, but we do not know for certain how old the place really is. From the time of the sagas the inn...

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Verås

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
VERÅS – A FARM IN THE HEATH...

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...

Isdal

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Isdal one of the few clustered settlements left in the Hordaland communities, after the extensive changes taking place around the turn of the former c...

Håøy

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Birger Odland
Håøy lies centrally in one of the main shipping lanes going into Bergen --- with Håyøsund on the south side facing Meland, and Hagelsundet facing Lind...

Holmeknappen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ture Andersen
If you come by sea to Bergen and come up the Herdle Fjord, the yellow ochre marine shed at Holmeknappen is a well known landmark to starboard as you c...

Fløksand

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...

Frekhaug

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been...

Iden

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
IDEN – A NOBLE ESTATE ...

Kolåseidet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Asbjørn Toft Gunnstein Kolstad
The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. ...

Isdalstø

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...

Litleoksa

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LONGHOUSE AT LITLEOKSA...

Landsvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE CHIMNEY ROOM FROM LANDSVIK ...

Odland

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Edvin Odland Johs. Fosse Atle Ove Martinussen
The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse bu...

Lygra

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Mons Kvamme
The heath landscape on outer Lygra, Utluro and Lurekalven will in future become part of a landscape protection area, to be maintained through traditio...

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...

Spjutøy

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Gunn Nordal
At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...

Øvre Tveiten

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On an east-facing slope above Halllandsvatnet lies the farm hamlet of Øvre Tveiten, two kilometres north of Manger. The stone hayshed lies with its ga...

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...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

Sylta

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Vassel

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Skule
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
The small, white-painted schoolhouse at Vassel is a modest, but worthy representative for the school in the rural community – an institution for knowl...

Ystebøtræet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tofting

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The memorial at Ospa - the MTB 345 tragedy

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