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Cover against the seal, hiding places at the water's edge

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In a number of places along the coast, seal hunting from land has taken place. A sheltered bay with skerries and rocks near the shore was a good platf...

Farm flour mills in Solund

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Few associate grain cultivation with the Solund landscape. Nonetheless, even in the smallest of streams there are visible signs of flour milling. Le...

Ospa - idyll with dramatic war history

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 30.08.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In 1943, the motor torpedo boat MTB 345 had to go in to Ospa in Solund because it ran out of fuel. It could not go on, and was detected by German pl...

The sheepfold - beauty shop of the wild sheep

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Granite stone fences on to a crag, with green patches around and stones rolled to the side on the beach to make room for the rowboat: the sheepfold ...

Oyster cultivation in Solund

Fiske / Fishing Jordbruk / Farming

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The rugged Solund coastline has a wealth of small, round fjords with narrow outlets, called "polls", bays, and coves which are well suited for the cul...

The boat repairman - essential element in the coast community

Båt / Boat Reparasjon / Repair

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

When the fisherman had had the misfortune to bump the boat into the sea floor so hard that the bailing pump had to work non-stop, and despair was gett...

Oldra - big arms depot in rock cave

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

During the Second World War, there was on the island of Oldra a depot with large quantities of weapons and other war materials. The depot was disclo...

Storsundet - important base for resistance activity during the war

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Storsundet in Solund became an important base and a hub for resistance activity in the Sogn district during the war. The Shetland traffic used the p...

Utvær lighthouse - the landmark furthest to the west

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

From 1900 to 1920, 37 lighthouses were built in this country. One of these was the Utvær lighthouse, and its impressive and solid construction was bui...

The Solund shipping lanes - communication arteries between north and south

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Many a travelling sailor at the helm has wished that the Solund sea-lanes were much shorter. A good thing, then, that the islands were blessed with go...

Ships going down and running aground in Solund

Ulukke / Accident

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The archipelago of Solund was brutal for sailing vessels in strong westerly winds. But motor vessels went wrong as well, with tragic consequences. A...

Herring bays and seine rocks

Published: 29.03.2000

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Nature was generous in providing herring bays and mackerel coves in Solund. Fjord branches from north to south were ideal places for plankton in the s...

The steamship quay - economic and social innovation

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

With the steamship quays, the communities got a new look. In the 1920s, after years of hazardous toil in boarding boats, the first quays in Solund a...

The first roads in Solund

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Slim and agile, state road 606 winds through the Solund landscape. But it came at a price to knock one's way through the conglomerate, in order to con...

"Springar" from Solund

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A variant of the traditional folk dance "springdans" is the Solund "springar". This dance, and fiddle music written down after fiddle players in wes...

Husefjellet - signal station in the mountain

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

From the signal station on Husefjellet the Germans could monitor the traffic through the shipping lane of Indre Steinsund. In addition, they had an ...

Tungodden - signal station in a rain of bullets

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

It is hard to believe that the Germans would build a signal station on the outermost point of Oddenova. The temptation became too great for the alli...

Hugøy - signal station on Hugøyknolten

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Drawn back on the highest knoll, and built into the terrain, the lookout post at Hugøy was located, difficult to detect from the shipping lanes in t...

Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary

People and Society

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...

The potato shipwreck at Seglsteinen

Skipsvrak / Ship wreck

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In the pitch-dark night in December 1944, a German convoy is sailing north across the waters of Sognesjøen. No lighthouses are lit, yet the leader b...

The old schoolhouse at Hardbakke

People and Society

Skulehus / School building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Hardbakke was the second place in Solund which had a schoolhouse. From 1870 onwards, the schoolchildren could climb up the stone steps to a spacious c...

"Påting" - environment friendly young coalfish fishing

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In early evening in the summer, a fleet of motor boats from western Solund headed west. Their destination was the numerous fishing grounds far out, ...

The old youth association house at Hardbakke

Forsamlingshus / Assembly house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

After years on the road between schoolhouse, private homes, and vicarage barn, it was an unbelievable relief for the Hardbakke youth association when ...

Water level marks in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Plakett / Plaque

Published: 19.12.2001

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Along the entire Norwegian coast, so-called water level marks were chopped into the rock in the 19th century. 123 such marks are known today, and two ...

Clip fish-drying in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 19.12.2001

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Grønafjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, ...

Yddal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement ...

Gullbotnen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Kvernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Slåttene

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Steinevik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Lysekloster - The monks and nature

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister enc...

Villelia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Raudlia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Hopslia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...

Hovaneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

PURPLE SAXIFRAGE - A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN PLANT - BY THE SEA ...

Ådlandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living...

Tveitavatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different specie...

Digernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...

Storsøya Island

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

On Storsøya Island, English ivy grows nearly everywhere. It creeps along the ground and climbs all the way to the top of the tree trunks. Together wit...

Brandvikneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Per Harald Salvesen

ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...

Moster

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

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...

Herdla - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Golta - Pygmy willow

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Kalandsvika

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Hopsfjellet

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...

The Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...

Gjuvsland

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Mary Losvik Nils Georg Brekke

For time immemorial, probably all the way back to the Middle Ages, animals from the Homestead at Gjuvsland have grazed on the sunny slopes on the sout...

Møkjedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

NORWAY'S BIGGEST YEW TREE ...

Ølveshovda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The Ancient Ash Tree

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Holmedalsberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is...

Tveitabotn

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

VIRGIN FOREST IN THE BOTTOM OF TVEITA ...

Skogafjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to s...

Floteskaret

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Tungesvikstranda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Langebudalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Reppadalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tou...

Kråmyrane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Fløyfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Vidden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

Rambjøra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

In Sanddalen and Helldalsåsen the building of houses has increased dramatically. Where there eariery was grazing land, hundreds of families now live. ...

Jonstein

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

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...

Husedalen

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Moastølen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing - big fisheries in the 1950s

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In the course of the 1950s, tuna fishing became big fisheries, which in the summer season employed a great many fishermen and vessels from Solund. The...

Joberget

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...

Uranes

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...

Havås

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

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...

Vesoldo

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...

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...

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...

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...

Veivatnet

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...

Lote

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

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...

Buardalen Valley

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

Hamlagrø

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...

Fadnesskaret

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...

Ulvikapollen

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...

Osafjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

The salteries - sea houses moved from the trading posts

Sjøbu / Sea house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A large number of houses from the westernmost parts of Solund have been on the move. Still, none have been more exposed and have tasted more of the ...

Begla - weapons depot with sinister shadows

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The bay of Beglevågen in westernmost Solund must be the smallest in the country. Here the resistance movement had a weapons depot during the Second ...

Ancient relics in bog and stone

Historisk plass / Historical site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The rocky ground in Solund did not invite people to carve art into it. But there were numerous shelters which were suitable as living quarters for t...

Utvær "skipreide" - area of defence with "leidang" ships and beacons

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The Solund islands are on the doorstep of communication across the North Sea, centrally and strategically, with good harbours and plenty of hiding p...

Wartime Shetland traffic - fishing boats go west

Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A short distance to Shetland and a rugged coastline with good harbours and excellent hiding places for people and vessels were the reasons why Solun...

Sloops in the Sognefjord trade

Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

From times immemorial, the people from Solund have bartered and sold their produce in Bergen and in communities along the Sognefjord. The cargo vess...

Hiskjo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjørn Moe

THE TRADING POST AT HISKHOLMEN...

Geitaknottane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Morten Hage Bjørn Moe

Many travellers between Mundheim and Gjermundshamn are captivated by the expansive view toward Øynefjord, Varaldsøy and Folgefonna. The barren pine fo...

Vollom

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On Vollom, northwest of Seim, we find the only natural beech forest in Western Norway, which is also the most northerly of its type in the world. Beec...

Conglomerate for nuisance, benefit, and decoration

Naturformasjon / Natural structure

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The glacier did not reach out to the westernmost islands of Solund. In return, it left a rich collection of conglomerate stone eastward on the islands...

Skuggestranda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...

Indrøy trading post

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Clearly visible in the shipping lane of Ytre Steinsund, the trading post of Indrøy is situated. It is a striking example of how a self-made man buil...