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Nordåsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G.Gade
The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as ...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Rådalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bernt-Håvard Øyen
"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...

Tokagjelet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of th...

Steinsdalsfossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen Inge Aarseth
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...

Skårsvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
In September, 1901, a load of golden orfe fish was transported from Preussen to Bergen for stocking of Nygårdspark. One of the originators of the proj...

Fyksesundet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
"GIANT FEMALE TROLL" ...

Fykse

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
LANDSLIDE AT FYKSE ...

Stølsdalen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The grey alder forest down by the river in Stølsdalen is full of life. The many birds are very busy finding enough to eat from day to day – but the bi...

Jonstein

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook....

Hereiane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...

1905 - The municipality of Selje

People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting¿s parliamentary resolution on 7 June. This ...

Folgefonna

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...

Sålesnes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen, Nils Georg Brekke, Atle Sollesnes
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. K...

Herand - geologi

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein Jansen
SCULPTURES IN THE BEDROCK...

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...

Oksen

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
OKSEN – A WEATHER PREDICTOR...

Djønno

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
LION ANT...

Husedalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
OLD PINE FORESTHardangervidda has no more beautiful entryway for hikers than Husedalen. The river, its waterfalls and the expansive landscape is well ...

Matre - Salmon spot

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
BEST SALMON SPOT IN THE COUNTY...

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...

Haugsdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
Early in the 1900s there were much larger salt water deltas in Hordaland. But, essentially all of the larger river deltas got filled in and regulated ...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Frøyset river network

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Frøyset river network is protected from power station-building - not because of its pristine nature - but because it is a typical river network for th...

Dyrdal

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...

Raunøya

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden....

War grave at Novelandet

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 02.07.2003
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Nearly 120 000 Americans lost their lives in the First World War, most of these at the front in France. One of them was Lorents Bakke from Bremanger. ...

Andvikedalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
ELM- AND LIME TREE...

Shore seine fishing for fat herring in Solund

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
A rusty bolt in a bay can be the only visible memory of shore seine fishing, from times when the sheer momentum of the herring shoal coming from the w...

Godske farm

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
GODSKE AND GODSKE FARM ...

Herlandsnesjane

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually l...

Storavatnet - Red-throated diver

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The troll-like sounds from the Red-throated diver carry long distances between the mountains around Storavatnet. The high-pitched, haunting screeches ...

Storavatnet - shoreline

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The regulation of Lake Storavatnet has created a rare geological phenomenon: When Herlandsfossen power station taps the reservoir during the spring an...

Lonelva

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It is said that the salmon populations with the largest and the smallest salmon in the world both come from the waters that run out into the fjord sys...

Litlandsvatnet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Nils Georg Brekke
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...

Hellandsfossen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SALMON LADDER IN HELLANDSFOSSEN WATERFALL ...

Mostraumen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back acro...

Otterstadstølen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
Otterstadstølen lies in an idyllic grassy plain surrounded by rich forest, but also with high mountains close by. The mountainsides are steep and typi...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

Nedre Helland - skred

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and t...

Steinslandsvatnet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
SNOW AVALANCHE FANS AND DEPRESSIONS ...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Eksingedalen - landscape

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...

Lake Nesheimvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ekso

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
In the late 1800s, Ekso was known among the nobility in England as having among the best salmon rivers. In summer the Lords could haul in big fish of ...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

Moastølen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Skipshelleren

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland, Svein Indrelid
For vel 7000 år sidan var Straume ein av dei beste – om ikkje den beste – veideplassen i Hordaland. Steinalderfolket som busette seg ved Skipshelleren...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Skjervet - river theft

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...

Seglberget

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
HOUSE MARTINS IN STONE WALLS...

Granvinsvassdraget

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Randolf Knotten
After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the ...

Joberget

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
Flowering lime is one of nature's blessings: The nectar gives clear honey. The flower is used as folk medicine. From the inner bark of the lime tree o...

Lussand - geology

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...

Uranes

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
One of the most magnificent deciduous forests in Hordaland grows along the border with Kvam. The rich growth comes from the phyllite and mica schist b...

1905 - Askvoll Municipality

People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
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...

Havås

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST Johan Havaas (1864–1956) lived at the little farm, Havås, far up on the slope on the southwest side of Lake Granvinsvatnet. He ...

Mundheim

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe
At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...

Froastad

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Villand Reutz
RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...

Vesoldo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...

Aksnesholmane

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is ...

Kvamskogen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...

Rindarne moraine

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
MORAINE RIDGES The Rindarne moraine is visible from the right stretch of road in Eikedalen, toward Kvamskogen. Northeast of Lake Eikedalstvatnet it s...

Fedje bog

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The wild rabbit is really native to Northwest Africa, but the Ancient Romans introduced them to large parts of Europe. Not to Norway, rightly enough: ...

Solund church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 05.02.2003
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Solund church is a so-called longchurch made of wood, situated in the municipal centre of Hardbakke in Solund. The church has a seating capacity of 20...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Innarsøyene

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SEA BIRDS ON INNARSØYANE ...

Holmengrå

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Sunde
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...

Bernhard Færøyvik - pioneer in coast vessels history

Person / Person
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
Bernhard Færøyvik from Solund was one of our most prominent vessel historians. He was a pioneer as well as an adviser in drawing and visualizing the o...

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...

Davik church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Davik church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Davik in the municipality of Bremanger. The church, with a seating capacity of 500, was ...

Rugsund church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Rugsund church is a wooden longchurch located on the farm of Hessevågen on the mainland side of Rugsund in the municipality of Bremanger. The church h...

Vardetangen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
WESTERN CAPE ...

Lyngoksen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
The swamp layer at Lyngoksen is unusually thick, and the island therefore stands out from the rest of the islands along the coast. Even up on the ridg...

Many-sided activities vital in Solund

Fiske / Fishing Jordbruk / Farming
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
In order to survive on the rugged islands in the west, the people had to harvest from the sea as well as from the land. The money came more easily fro...

Purkebolsvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Purkebolsvatnet is perhaps western Norway's largest sleeping city - for birds. They come in the thousands, usually in later summer and autumn. Th...

Leirvågen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
A marsh is a grassy meadow that is strongly influenced by salt from the sea. This type of nature is abundant in Denmark, among other places. The flatl...

Grunnosen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
A PROTECTED NERITIC ...

Hersvik Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 05.02.2003
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Hersvik church is a wooden longchurch located on the farm of Hersvik in the northern parts of the municipality of Solund. The church has a seating ca...

Kinso

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SALMON OF KINSO RIVER...

Huse housing development

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Vidar Valen
RADON GAS IN THE GROUND The country's most comprehensive mapping of radon in homes has been carried out in the housing development Huse in Kinsarvik....

Ullensvang vicarage

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
Well over 200 years ago, the priest Niels Hertzberg started making climate observations at the vicarage at Lofthus in Ullensvang. Hertzberg was active...

1905 - Gjert Holsen, member of the Storting

People and Society
Person / Person Politikk / Politics Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 06.12.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution in the Storting on 7 June. This article is abou...

Opedal

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
FRUIT-GROWING ON FLOOD DEPOSITS The old road through Opedal and Helland in Lofthus gives a beautiful introduction to the Fruit Kingdom, both when in ...

Veivatnet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
From Kinsekvelven river and inward to Lake Veivatnet, we can wander through one of Hardangervidda's many fertile areas. A number of finicky plants gro...

Hårteigen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

Velure

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Inge Aarseth
ANNUAL AVALANCHES South of Velure the mountainsides plunge from 1500 metres right down into Sørfjorden. No place along the fjord has snow avalanches ...

Kvalvikane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...

Lote

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

Matskorhæ

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...

Kalvanes

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Bjørn Moe
On the 17th of January, 1993, the area between the towns of Odda and Eitrheimsneset were struck by a giant avalanche. One person was killed, and there...

Odda - The industrial town

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Karsten Eitrheim Endre Skaar Nils Georg Brekke
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...

Buardalen Valley

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Atle Nesje Bjørn Moe
Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mo...

Sandvin

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It is not easy to know what the conditions are at the nesting grounds when one is far away in winter - perhaps in France or the Mediterranean. At Sand...

Opo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...

Låtefossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...

Grytøyrelva

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...

Valldalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arvid Odland Kåre Utaaker
Valldalen or Valdalen, the name that the locals used in past times, had been a permanent settlement for a long time, and later the biggest mountain-fa...

Hæreid - geology

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Olaf Dahl
The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natura...

Eio

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Simadalen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
On the 10th of August, 1937, over half of the agricultural land in Simadalen was submerged by the river. The damage to roads and houses was also catas...

Tussafoten

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Skytjedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Måbødalen - geology

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terr...

Vøringsfossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
The official height of Vøringsfossen is 182 metres. A long time before modern measuring methods were invented, natural historians and other curious pe...

Stend station

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Horda Museeum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Håkonshella

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bu

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

Skredhaugen

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

Reisete

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik
CROSSING THE GLACIER ...

The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 11.07.2006
Author: Kristin Ese
Far to the west towards the ocean lies the hamlet of Kråkenes. A cart road to this place was built in the 1940s. The road could hardly be used in the ...

Espe

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik
HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...

Heggjagarden

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The transport exchange on the farm Vik in Eidfjord was an important part of the communication network in older times. This is where people secured tra...

Varberg

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Måbødalen - road construction

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per M. Bremnes
THE ROADS THROUGH MÅBØDALEN...

The fishing industry at Færøy

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
The seine-drying facility at Færøy is enormous. Yet it is only one part of the fishing industry which grew up and expanded in this place in the course...

Hårbrekke

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

Skogasel

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
A RENAISSANCE LODGING HOUSE ...

The track up to the mountain farm of Rimstigen

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 23.02.2006
Author: Åsmund Ohnstad
The farms of Bakka and Tufto are located on the western side of the Nærøyfjord about six kilometres north of the village of Gudvangen. In the mountain...

Haugatun

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Torgeir Alvsaker
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen
Close to the main road at Bru lies a large well-proportioned building with classical features; of size most like a church, with church vestibule and a...

Strandebarm

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Atle Ove Martinussen
BOAT-BUILDING IN STRANDEBARM Doing work in addition to farming has long traditions in Strandebarm, and work connected to various craft activities has...

Vikingnes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
STONE MOUNDS ALONG THE FJORD ...

Jondal

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Torgeir Alvsaker
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kari Losnedahl
THE HOUSE FOR THE YOUTH MOVEMENT – STRONGHOLD OF NORWEGIANNESS...

Indre Vikane

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
INDRE VIKANE – A TRACE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE LANDSCAPE ...

Herandsholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1754 the law officer Andreas Heiberg advised that a guesthouse location be established at Herandsholmen, as there were no lodging places for travel...

Bakko

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the Nationa...

Hardanger Folk Museum

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

Håhaugsteinen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Årekol

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
GUNNAR ANFINSEN ÅREKOL ...

Kinsarvik

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketi...

Veafjorden

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Some decades ago, Veafjord and the currents in toward the bigger rivers were the most likely places to see harbour seals in Hordaland. In the summer f...

Raundalen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Thousands of years ago - when the climate was warmer than today - there was probably a lot of moose in Hordaland. We know this from finds of bone from...

Mjølfjell

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Jordalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
During the last ice ages, parts of the Voss river system were stolen and sent down Nærøydalen valley to Nærøy Fjord (Nærøyfjorden). Before this big ri...

Holo

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Mary Losvik
I Kvassdalen var det aktiv stølsdrift med mjølking av kyr og geitehald nokre år inn i vårt tusenår, og slik hadde det vore i meir enn to hundre år. Så...

Vikafjellet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The largest reindeer herd in Hordaland - outside of Hardangervidda - lives in the mountainous area between Voss/Vaksdal and Sognefjorden....

Myrkdalsdeltaet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Mykdal delta had an unusually diverse bird life, right up until 1987. The Myrkdal delta should have been protected, and the plans were prepared. Despi...

The school at Svanøy

Skule / School
Published: 24.06.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The Svanøy school is located in the centre of the island. There are two buildings, the old school from 1874, and a new, modern building from 1982, wit...

Ulvund

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Mary Losvik
One of the oldest farms in Myrkdalen, Ulvund, is recognized as one of 14 areas in Hordaland having an especially valuable cultural landscape. The dirt...

Nordheim

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...

Lønaøyane

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The Strandaelvi river is forever protected from the development of hydropower. The Lønaøyane islands – which comprise the delta furthest north in Lake...

Vossagran

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Knut Nedkvitne Stein Byrkjeland
How did the spruce tree get to Voss? Did the seed or small spruce plants get help from people, for example, to make it here unscathed? Nobody knows....

Vossavangen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
WATER FROM THE GROUNDEssentially all of the inhabitants at Vossavangen receive their tap water from the large sand- and gravel deposits at Prestegards...

Bømoen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Bordalsgjelet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...

Rekvesøyane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets ...

Førland

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

Sætre

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

Kvalvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
TOFTEGÅRD AT KVALVÅGEN...

Kvalvågstraumen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
WHALE HUNTING ...

Fedje traffic office

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen

Sculpture of Pål Bårdsson - vicar at Undredal and archbishop

Monument / Monument
Published: 06.10.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Many churches have portraits of their own previous vicars going back many centuries. However, no church can match the Undredal church in this respect....

Vosso

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Geir H. Johnsen
There is probably no bigger salmon to be found in the whole wide world than in Vosso. The average size varies from season to season of course, but for...

The Vosso river network

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
The Vosso is Hordaland's main artery, she has never run more richly than in our times, and no other river in western Norway carries so much water. The...

Vangsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
150 YEAR BATTLE AGAINST FLOOD It is figured that if nature had her way, a so-called hundred-year flood would increase the water level in Lake Vangsva...

Hamlagrø

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Teigdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
It is not surprising that there are several folk tales connected to the large and unusual scree deposit that is found at Langeland, uppermost in Teigd...

Fadnesskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...

Ulvikapollen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
When the lush beach area innermost in Ulvikapollen was protected, the bird life was instrumental to the decision. The plant diversity is just as impre...

Ulvik-village

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The ice cap that covered the land during each of the 40 past ice ages over the past 2 million years of Earth's history pressed down the crust of the e...

Solskinstjørni

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disa...

Osafjorden

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

Rallarvegen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end ca...

Buadalsbrotet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...

Bergensbanen - snow measurements

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Opponents of the Bergen Railway used the snow argument for all it was worth. During the debate in Parliament before the decision about the route was r...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Askvik
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...

Jomfrunuten

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Olaf Dahl Atle Nesje
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patt...

Nordrenut

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It must have taken a long time for the snails of Finse to make it to the mountains; six species have been found as high as 1470 m a.s.l. For the snail...

Finse

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Wenche Eide
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete wi...

Fruo

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, ...

The big "river theft" in the valley of Nærøydalen

Naturformasjon / Natural structure
Published: 19.05.2005
Author: Inge Aarseth
The river of Nærøydalselvi has not always been as big as it is today. Throughout the last few ice ages it has stolen many tributary rivers which previ...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Sysendalen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...

Krækkjavassdraget

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to...

Skiftesjøen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Hanne Svarstad Olav Aas
A microscopic mushroom from Hardangervidda has been like a “golden hen” for the Swiss company Novartis. Everywhere in the world, companies are looking...

Bjoreidalen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Bjoreidalen is one of the classic bird localities on Hardangervidda. It is especially known for its wading birds, with as many as 17 of the 19 wader s...

Langavassfjellet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
ESKERS ...

Trodalen

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

Kjetland

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On the farm Kjetland there is an old house with a loft – probably from the 1600s or early 1700s. The exterior is not radically different from other ho...

Rambjørg

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...

Matre - Bjørn West museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes Erling Virkesdal
THE BJØRN WEST MUSEUM...

Kringlebotnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes
Close to Hummelfossen (waterfall) there is a narrow path leading up the steep mountainside. The path leads to the farm Kringlebotnen, which lies in th...

Andviki

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

Anchor at Værlandet - memorial of shipwreck

People and Society
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 30.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the night of 30 December 1919, the SS "Orm Jarl" ran aground to the west of Alden. Two salvage vessels arrived at the disabled ship, and for some t...

Mjelddalen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Valestrand

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland
OLE BULL AND THE FOLK MUSIC ...

Memorial stone commemorating women's graves at Skaim

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 08.12.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa Svein Indrelid
On the northern side of the church at Aurlandsvangen there is a stone linked to a prehistoric find of a grave at the farm Skaim. The stone has been er...

Valestrandsfossen - Youth centre

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen
VALESTRAND – A CLASSICAL YOUTH CENTRE ...

Raknes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...

Gjerstad

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

Kossdalen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås
KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...

Mjøsvågen

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Andersen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises ...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

Borgund stave church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Borgund stave church is situated in the village of Borgund in the municipality of Lærdal. The church is said to be built about 1150, and is consider...

The first ferry connection in western Sogn

Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
One of the most important road and ferry connections today with a high volume of traffic is the connection between Lavik and Oppedal in western Sogn. ...