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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...

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

Øy / Island

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Plass / Spot

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...

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...

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 ...

The first roads in Solund

Communications

Veg / Road

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...

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...

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...

Clip fish-drying in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 19.12.2001

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

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 Solund shipping lanes - communication arteries between north and south

Sund / Strait

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...

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...

"Springar" from Solund

Musikk / Music

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...

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...

Farm flour mills in Solund

Mølle / Mill

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...

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