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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...

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...

Kitchen utensils and cooking

Kjøkkenutstyr / Kitchen accessory
Published: 24.01.2008
Author: Kari Larsen
At Ytre Moa kitchen utensils and cooking equipment make up an interesting category of objects. Each utensil as well as the objects seen as a whole can...

Bjellandsvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is...

Hopsfjellet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
On June 2nd, 1992, a big forest fire broke out in Sveio. The fire started southeast of Hopsfjellet. In a strong wind the flames spread quickly northwa...

Einstapevoll - slates

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...

Straumen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

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

The burial mounds at Ytre Moa

Archaeology
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 24.01.2008
Author: Kari Larsen
In addition to six house sites, 20 burial mounds and a menhir (memorial stone) are located on the Moa terrace. Some of the burial mounds are found in ...

The farm of Ytre Moa – farming and the use of resources

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 11.10.2007
Author: Kari Larsen
The means of subsistence at Ytre Moa were based on the same natural resources that people have used until fairly recent times; the soil, the forest an...

Textile tools and textile production

Verktøy / Tool
Published: 24.01.2008
Author: Kari Larsen
There is a relatively high occurrence of textile tools in the finds at Ytre Moa. With our knowledge of grazing conditions, finds of tools for gatherin...

Ytre Moa – Life in and among the houses

Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 24.01.2008
Author: Kari Larsen
A rich selection of objects has been found at Ytre Moa, both meant for ornaments and ordinary use. The objects tell us something about the life and wo...

Jewellery and personal objects

Tilbehøyr / Accessory
Published: 24.01.2008
Author: Kari Larsen
Few but various types of jewellery and personal objects have been found at Ytre Moa. These objects demonstrate that the people who lived at Ytre Moa p...