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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...

Farmers and Settlements

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

From 4,500 to 5,000 years ago most of Hordaland was a landscape of forest, right out to the coast and the islands. With our inner eye we can see old o...

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...

Årsand

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shal...

Tjernagel

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn ...

Borgåsen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Bjørn Myhre

In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and ...

Helgaberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is...

Fitjar - the King's farm

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most...

Rimsvarden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Rimsvarden lies high and unencumbered, an enormous stone mound on the highest top with a wide view of the Fitjar rural community. With its 30 meters a...

Hystad - burial mounds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The biggest collection of prehistoric burial relics in Stord is to be found in Hystadmarka. There are still 16 burial mounds and two stone rings visib...

Hæreid - archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie...

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 ...

Grødalshaug

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of...

Dale farm

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...

Stamnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

Hopland

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Svein Indrelid

The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in ...

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

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 ...

Høybøen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Kjersti Randers Sigrid H.H. Kaland

In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...

Nordhuglo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Hop - The royal mounds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Tyssøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

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

Risøya

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Hjartøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigmund Alsaker

A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....

Samnøya

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Eidsbøen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...

Døso

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad

On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...

Vargavågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad Tor Lunde

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...

Straumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

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...

Vangdal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Nils Georg Brekke

At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has bee...

Gramshaug

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Lyngholmen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Vikse

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The Halsnøy Boat

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Arne Emil Christensen

Sydnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

COASTAL STONE CAIRNS AT HALSNØYA ...

Halne

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Varberg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

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...

Vikingnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

STONE MOUNDS ALONG THE FJORD ...

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...

Håhaugsteinen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

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...

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...

Rambjørg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...

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...

Raknes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...

Høvik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...

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...

Olavskrossen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Johannes Gjerdåker

Sledasteinen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

“THE DANCERS” ON THE SLEDA STONE...

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...

Gjøstein

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Seberg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

HALLSTATT - LEKVE ...

Hallingskeid

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE MARKETPLACE AT HALLINGSKEID ...

Sponheim

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

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...

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 ...

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...

Årbakka - The prehistoric site

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through t...

Dalland

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Harald Dalland Arne Emil Christensen

Hamn

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE BOATSHED AT HAMN ...

Fosnstraumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Anne Karin Hufthammar Knut Andreas Bergsvik

At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” he...

Fløksand

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...

Mangersnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Bård Kolflåth

SMALL BOATS IN THE IRON AGE At Mangersnes, in a bog just by the sea, there is a layer about one metre thick with wood that has traces of cutting, sh...

Seim

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat he...

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...

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...

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Svein Indrelid

The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy...