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Lykling - soapstone

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

SOAPSTONE FOR BERGEN'S CHURCHES ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Leirvik - The trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

Already in the Middle Ages the good harbour at Leirvik provided a connecting point. Here was a court of law, and a guesthouse was established here in ...

Orninggård

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Ådlandsstova

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautiful...

Kåravika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Stord Teacher Training College

People and Society

Skule

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1838 Stordøens Seminarium was established by the parish priest Claus H. Daae as head. This was the first seminary in West Norway and likewise one o...

Nordhuglo

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Liarbø

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll Ivar Skre

Færøysund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Johan Sandvik

The old trading post lies at the sound between Stord and Færøy in Langenuen. There was a country store and steamship forwarding agent up to 1964. The ...

Smedholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll

Finnås rectory

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

WOODEN CLOGS AND POTATOES ...

Straumen

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Skålafjøro

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE SHIPYARD AT SKÅLAFJØRO...

Gjerde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tjernagelsholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Leirvåg

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ronny B. Skaar Bjarne Kortsen

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

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...

The Halsnøy Boat

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Arne Emil Christensen

Skorven

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Sydnes

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

COASTAL STONE CAIRNS AT HALSNØYA ...

Undarheim

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Fet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Hilde Nagel

Seim

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tveito

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

THE HAUGA HOUSE AND THE SKILBECK COLLECTION ...

Selsøya

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid, Arne Tislavoll

Neshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Neshamn must be an ancient place for meeting and spending the night for travellers. The place blossomed in connection with the times of economic expan...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Hiskjo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjørn Moe

THE TRADING POST AT HISKHOLMEN...

Outer Håvika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

Klinkholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

Kubbervik, or Vikjo as it was known colloquially, must have been established as a trading post under the farm of Håland some time around 1600. The rea...

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

Årbakka - The trading center

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE TRADING CENTRE...

Solstråleøya

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Godøysund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

The old hostelry centres were strategically placed with good harbours and anchoring conditions where people travelled. GODØYSUND, or Gøysundet, as it ...

Færavåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

The main house at Færavåg was built in 1599. History tells us that a German came to Færavåg and built the house. He divided the land between his two s...

Nedrevåge

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both...

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

Hovdanes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE WHEELHOUSE AT HOVDANES ...

Onarheim

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

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