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Landro

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik
Landro has been the largest estate on Sotra, including 15 farms with reasonable conditions for agriculture. Their boathouses have had an excellent har...

Hjelmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From...

Hernar

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favour...

Kvalvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Kvalvåg on Stolmen is first mentioned as a trading post in 1655, and in 1731 the owner Jens Meyer, was granted a royal trading privilege....

Bakholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar
On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this w...

Hufthammar

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Johan Haugland
Farming in Austevoll has nearly all been in combination with fishing as the main industry. The farms in the district are therefore small, even in a we...

Krosshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Krosshamn lies in the shipping lane northeast of Hundvåkøy, near Sandtorv. The name probably derives from the fact that this is Austevoll’s harbour si...

Notaholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The fishnet shed at Notaholmen stands as a reminder of the days when people used to row out on the fjord to set their nets. On Notaholmen the nets wer...

Strusshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
On the south side of Askøy, just west of Bergen, lies Strusshamn. The sheltered bay is one of the best harbours in Byfjorden, on the route south. At t...

Korsfjorden

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke
IN DEEP WATER...

Bekkjarvik

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

Hop - Thomas Erichsens Minde

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
From the 1500s Hop was noble estate for the law speaker in Bergen and Gulen judicial districts. Several of the law speakers were of noble descent, suc...

Ramsøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Nils Georg Brekke
“At thick of night a thundering knock on the door; the man in the house wakes up, jumps out and demands: Who cries? Yes, now you must out, the beacon ...

Herdla farm

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
Numerous finds show that the settlement at Herdla goes back to prehistoric times, and the large estate at Herdla has enjoyed a central place in the na...

Bukken

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch fu...

Glesvær - Trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åsmund Lien Atle Austestad
Glesvær is one of the oldest trading posts on the West Norwegian coast. In the 1700s and 1800s this was the most important fishing centre on Sotra. Th...

Golta - Long house

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters ...

Tælavåg

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar
Tælavåg has a significant place in the history of the German occupation in WWII. The small community by the sea, where for centuries people had made a...

Skogsvåg

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Øystein Frøiland
Kval i våg! Når det ropet gjekk, var det berre å få ut den kraftige kvalnota til å stengja vågen med, og så kunne veidinga ta til. I uminnelege tider ...

Brattholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The old guesthouse location in Brattholmen on the east side of Litlesotra, was probably established in the first half of the 1700s. A list from 1748 m...