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Dyrdal

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

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....

Sogns Tidend - local newspaper 1877-1947

Avis / Newspaper

Published: 06.06.2003

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The local newspaper 'Sogns Tidend' was published in the years between 1877 and 1947 - the first few decades in Lærdal, but from 1903 in Sogndal. Durin...

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

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 ...

Memorial commemorating the museum founder - landowner G. F. Heiberg

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 27.11.2003

Author: Hermund Kleppa

At the entrance to the museum "De Heibergske Samlinger - Sogn Folkemuseum" at Kaupangerskogen there is a memorial commemorating the founder, landowner...

Memorial at Rugsund church for war victims in the Second World War

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 16.12.2003

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The 19-year-old Johan Friis from Rugsund died in the first Norwegian shipwreck after the Second World War broke out in 1939. In 1994, the Rugsund "sok...

Herlandsnesjane

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

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 ...

War grave at Grotle churchyard - seaman Arthur Hauge

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone

Published: 07.01.2004

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The former municipality of Bremanger had 13 war victims from the Second World War. Most of these were lost at sea. Only three got a grave at their hom...

Storavatnet - shoreline

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

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SALMON LADDER IN HELLANDSFOSSEN WATERFALL ...

War grave at Selje - Peder Sandvik

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone

Published: 14.01.2004

Author: Hermund Kleppa

"In a statement from the chief command of the Norwegian Royal Navy he died on his post for the country." These words are written in the death notice o...

Mostraumen

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...

War grave at Selje - Reidar Drage

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone

Published: 14.01.2004

Author: Hermund Kleppa

On 15 April, 1946, the cargo on a motor boat loaded with German ammunition caught fire on her way to a dumping site in Nordfjord. People jumped overbo...

Otterstadstølen

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...

Remnants of a concrete base on the island of Silda - traces of an unusual shipwreck

Ulukke / Accident

Published: 14.01.2004

Author: Gunnar Silden Hermund Kleppa

On the night of 13 January 1925, SS "Aladdin" ran aground on the eastern side of Silda. The whole crew survived this dramatic accident, but it meant t...

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

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

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ekso

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Skipshelleren

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...

The Tunold stone at Selje

Monument / Monument

Published: 18.02.2004

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The artist Bernt Tunold, born at Selje on 25 February, 1877, died in Bergen on 23 January, 1946, is held to be one of the great painters from wester...

Skreien

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Veafjorden

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...

The farmyard tree at Skorpeidet - memorial tree for a navy serviceman

Published: 20.02.2004

Author: Malvin Toft Hermund Kleppa

''Close to the house was a birch so wide / there the magpies had their old nest,'' sings Ivar Aasen in his song Gamle garden. (The old farm). In forme...

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...

Eldsfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Håkon Austrheim

The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...

Rylandvassdraget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There is a lot of trout and a large char population in Lake Rylandsvatnet. The lake was stocked with char, probably in 1907. The promoters of the proj...

Leiro

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Salhusfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Herman G.Gade

When the debate about building a pontoon bridge over Salhus Fjord was raging, some were afraid that the bridge would disrupt the ecology of the fjord ...

Myking

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

Between Lake Kvalheimsvatnet and Lake Mykingsvatnet, north of Grindheim, we find one of the biggest continuous lowland bogs in Hordaland. It is 500-60...

Manger

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Mangerite is a rock type that was first made famous in a treatise by the Bergen geologist Carl Fredrik Kolderup in 1903. The rock type got its name fr...

Vågenes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than ...

Toska

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most imp...

Vardetangen

Published: 06.02.2024

WESTERN CAPE ...

Lyngoksen

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

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

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...

War grave memorial in Førde - Torberg Haaland

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person

Published: 03.02.2003

Author: Hermund Kleppa

Engineer and pilot officer Torberg Haaland was one of two from Førde who lost their lives in the service of their country during the Second World Wa...

Grunnosen

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...

Fedje bog

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...

Sogn og Fjordane central county hospital

Sjukehus / Hospital

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

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Sunnfjord Hotell

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Losji / Accommodation

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Sunnfjord Hotell opened for business in 1968. The initiative was local, many local shareholders were behind it, and the inhabitants of Førde have al...

Vatlestraumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Firda - the local newspaper for the whole county

Dialects and arts

Avis / Newspaper

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The newspaper Firda is today by far the biggest newspaper in the county, and the only daily. The circulation in 2000 was 14,628. The newspaper cover...

Litlesotra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CORAL REEFS ...

Fjell river network

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir H.Johnsen

There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...

Løno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe William Helland-Hansen Stein Byrkjeland

Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Lø...

The Hess family business at Buskøy

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The old patrician seat of Buskøy, with a trade and inn-keeping license from 1705, has been the home of several enterprising and successful people. For...

Haganes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Ågotnes - Stonechat

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Tjeldstømarka

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have...

Skogsøyna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by...

Blomvågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

Turøyvegen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Toftøyna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Raundalen

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Jordalen

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...

The Eggja runic stone

People and Society

Historisk monument / Historical monument

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Aage Engesæter

The Eggja stone is one of the best known runic stones ever found in Norway. It contains the longest known inscription of the old futhark (early runic)...

Holo

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

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

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 forgotten saga

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The saga regarding the settlement of Hordaland started off about 10,000 years ago. Most of this saga has been recorded in writing, not on paper, but o...

The school at Svanøy

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

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

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

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Bordalsgjelet

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

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 ...

Vosso

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 agricultural school at Mo

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The farm Mo became an agricultural school in 1858, and it is now the second oldest agricultural school in the country still in operation. The farm i...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Fossen Bratte

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

Langebrua

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

The bridge across the river Jølstra was named after the shopkeeper Hans Christian Fr. Lange, one of the people who took the initiative to build the ...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Sjøahola

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Sjøahola is the name of the first built-up area in Førde, and throughout several centuries it was the centre of the community, of communication, com...

Herdla - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The boat stop Steinen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Steinen became the port of call for Førde. Several activities grew up here, for example the first manufacturing industries. Yet, like so many other bo...

Firda Billag

Billag / Bus company

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Firda Billag is the biggest automobile company in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. It is owned by 13 municipalities and has its headquarters in Førde...

Herdla - Migrating birds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

The composer Johannes Haarklou

Musikk / Music Musikkverk / Musical work Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Johannes Haarklou (1847 - 1925) won for himself a prominent position in Norwegian music in the period 1880 - 1925. He was a composer, a music review...

Herdleflaket

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

The author Kristian Elster the Elder

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Kristian Mandrup Elster (1841-1881) was the first of four authors whose background was in the senior public official environment in Førde, and who a...

Ask - jordbær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

The author Ole Wilhelm Fasting

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Ole Wilhelm Fasting (1852-1915) was a vicar's son from Førde. He was an engineer, and worked for many years at Bergens Tekniske Skole (school of eng...

The author Kristian Elster the Younger

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Kristian Elster the Younger (1881-1947) had deep roots in the upper public officials circle in Førde. Evidence of this can be found in his writings....

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

Hjalmar Christensen - culture critic and author from Førde

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Hjalmar Christensen was a culture critic and author from Førde. He was most active in the capital, but all his life he held on to his childhood roots....

Hanøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

The artist Oddvar Torsheim

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Rolf Braadland

Oddvar Torsheim was born in 1938. He grew up in Naustdal but made Førde his home. He is known as a popular graphic artist, painter, and in later years...

Golta - Gneiss

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

The altarpiece in Førde church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkjekunst / Church art Måleri / Painting

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Quite a few people have become interested in the altarpiece in Førde church once they have seen it. It is unique, rich in motif, fine in the carving...

Golta - Pygmy willow

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Spildepollen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane

Forretningsbygg / Commercial building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Starting in the 1960s, comprehensive mergers of banks into larger units have taken place. This process started only in the 1970s in the county of So...

Glesvær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend abou...

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SEA BIRDS ON INNARSØYANE ...

Holmengrå

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...

Memorial stone for Ivar and Andrine Svardal

People and Society

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person

Published: 13.10.2006

Author: Hermund Kleppa

In the summer of 1956, the temperance people in the municipalities of Brekke and Gulen met at Rutledal. There was a special solemn atmosphere that day...

Fjærland church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Fjærland church is a so-called longchurch built of wood situated on the farm of "nedre Mundal" in the municipality of Sogndal. The church was built in...

Memorial stone for Edvin Færøy

People and Society

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person

Published: 13.10.2006

Author: Hermund Kleppa

Edvin Færøy lost his life in action in Valdres on 20 April 1940. He was first buried in Valdres but was later moved home and buried on the churchyard ...

Ystås

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE JOINED HAMLET AT YSTÅS ...

Nedre Folkedal

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

For many years the Folkedal scythe had a good reputation. Immediately above the highway through Folkedal there is a long brick building, on the inner ...

Øystese - Ingebrigt Vik museum

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Reidar Storaas

INGEBRIGT VIK – A CLASSICIST WITHIN NORWEGIAN SCULPTURE ...

Norum church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Norum church is a so-called longchurch (basilica type) made of wood and located on the area belonging to the farm Ylmeim in the municipality of Sognda...

Ålvik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

BRONZE FIND FROM ÅLVIK...

Rosseland

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Around 50 years ago a runic stone came to light in a barn wall at Rosseland. On one of the flat sides 25 runic signs had been carved. The letters are ...

Mate from Florø - on a memorial plaque in Bergen

Plakett / Plaque

Published: 24.01.2006

Author: Hermund Kleppa

During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, more than 2000 Norwegian seamen lost their lives at sea. Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab (BDS - The Berge...

Sandven

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE COASTAL COMMUNITY AND SANDVEN HOTEL ...

Hardanger Maritime Museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir Madsen

Tveit

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Reidar Storaas

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

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...

The mountain farm Langhuso in the valley of Undredalsdalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 13.03.2006

Author: Åsmund Ohnstad

The farms of Undredal and Hjøllo are located close together on the western side of the Aurlandsfjord, about five kilometres south of the entrance to...

Vika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The old smokehouse still left in the farmyard at Vikjo a little south of Omastrand, was protected in 1924. The smokehouse is from the 1500's. ...

Vikingnes

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...

War graves on Shetland - captain Kristoffer Lutenthun

Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person

Published: 17.03.2006

Author: Hermund Kleppa

On 3 February 1940, the SS "Hop" left Bergen for England in ballast. The boat never got there. Three weeks later, the newspaper Firda Folkeblad had a ...

Indre Vikane

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

INDRE VIKANE – A TRACE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE LANDSCAPE ...

Dale

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

THE INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENT OF DALE ...

Straume - maritime environment

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE FRAME-BUILT BOATSHEDS AT STRAUME ...

Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Høvik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...

Brekkhus

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

BREKKHUS IN TEIGDALEN – A CRAFT CENTRE...

Byrkjehaugen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

On the farm Bø, close to the highway between Bulken and Voss lies Byrkjehaugen, one of the largest burial mounds in West Norway. Originally it was aro...

Lydvo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

LYDVALOFTET ...

Olavskrossen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Johannes Gjerdåker

Fleischers Hotel

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

Ole Bull-akademiet

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland

Sigbjørn Berhoft Osa and Ole Bull - Akademiet...

Sverrestigen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

In the year 1177 king Sverre was travelling from East Norway towards Bergen, but at Voss he was met by an army of farmers who forced him to turn round...

Sledasteinen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

“THE DANCERS” ON THE SLEDA STONE...

Rekve

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland

FIDDLERS FROM REKVE...

Gjernes

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ole Didrik Lærum

MAGNUS DAGESTAD ...

Women's graves at Skaim- settlement for 15 centuries

Historisk plass / Historical site

Published: 08.12.2005

Author: Svein Indrelid

In the spring of 1964 there was some cultivation work going on at the farm of Skaim. This work included removing some rock heaps left from clearing th...

Mula

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Johannes Gjerdåker

MULA – A DESERTED FARM FROM THE MIDDLE AGES...

Nesheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

NESHEIMSTUNET ...

Myrkdalen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

Gjøstein

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Brekke

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

Seberg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

HALLSTATT - LEKVE ...

Ulvik church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

CROSS CHURCH AND STAVE CHURCH...

Hallingskeid

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE MARKETPLACE AT HALLINGSKEID ...

Sponheim

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Vallaviki

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjarne Sørensen

When Anders Paulson Wallevik (1874-1965) took over the sloop “Haabet” after his father around 1900, he established a wide-ranging business, merchant, ...

Trå

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

A WOMAN’S GRAVE FROM VIKING TIMES In a woman’s grave on the farm Trå remains of a bronze ladle and runic inscriptions were found many years ago. Buri...

Kjerland

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On the farms Kjerland and Røynstrond, east of the river that flows into the fjord, we find many decorative painters who belong to the so-called sòleki...

Stend station

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Memorial stones commemorating Bolette Pavels Larsen

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hermund Kleppa

The Bergen author Bolette Christine Pavels Larsen died on 8 December, 1904. Mrs Pavels Larsen was born in Sogndal, lived in Bergen, and over a long pe...

Horda Museeum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Håkonshella

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Skredhaugen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Reisete

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

CROSSING THE GLACIER ...

The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Måbødalen - road construction

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per M. Bremnes

THE ROADS THROUGH MÅBØDALEN...

Fishing ground bearings - the key to the harvest of the sea

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Most of the fishing ground bearings (called ¿méd" in Norwegian) are today forgotten. But once, having good fishing bearings for oneself could be compa...

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...

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

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Årekol

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

GUNNAR ANFINSEN ÅREKOL ...

Dalsøyra "bedehus"

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Bedehus / Chapel

Published: 02.06.2006

Author: Olav Molde

The layment movement was very strong around 1900. Laymen preachers from various Christian organizations travelled around in the villages, holding meet...

Kinsarvik

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...

Bu

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke