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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Bekkjarvik

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

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 ...

Gjerde church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Skånevik - Norwegian engine museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Åkrafjorden

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Magnus Saltnes Ingvald Skålnes

Frette

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE FRETTE PAINTERS...