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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 ...

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...

Lyse Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Marit Nybø

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...

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...

Ådland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Ådland, innermost in the Samnanger Fjord is an old church centre and transport centre; a nodal point in the transport from sea to land. The white pain...

Årstad

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håko...

Lyse chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the mon...

Høybøen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Kjersti Randers Sigrid H.H. Kaland
In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...

Hop - The royal mounds

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Herdla Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
A letter from the Pope Eugenius 3 in 1146 mentions St. Nikolaus church at Herdla. This church belonged under Munkeliv monastery, which was founded in ...

Tyssøy

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church ...

Risøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Hjartøy

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigmund Alsaker
A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....

Holmefjord

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are ...

Samnøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

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 ...

Døso

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad
On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...

Vargavågen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad Tor Lunde

Korskirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Domkirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Fantoft Stave Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...

Kyrkjebyrkjeland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Håkonshella

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik