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Undarheim

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Fet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Hilde Nagel

Seim

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tveito

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
THE HAUGA HOUSE AND THE SKILBECK COLLECTION ...

Skålafjøro

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE SHIPYARD AT SKÅLAFJØRO...

Gjerde

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

Gjuvsland

Plant life
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...

Skjervet - road construction

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Knut Kjerland Johannes Gjerdåker
The road between Eide in Granvin and Voss is one of the oldest roads mentioned in the Middle Ages. In a diploma from 1343 from Voss regarding distribu...

Kongstun

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on...

Øvre Folkedal

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Folkedal, which today is like a small “detour” from the main highway, was in the Middle Ages centrally situated in one of the most important roads bet...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rød

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1969 Sigurd and Margreta Dønhaug donated a collection of around 170 historical cultural objects to Kvinnherad municipality. They wanted their gift ...

Rosendal Barony

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Per Jahn Lavik Anne Grete Honerød
The Barony of Rosendal lies in the grounds of the old noble estate of Hatteberg, on the north side of the Hatteberg river, around one kilometre up fro...

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...

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 ...

Lussand-roadwork

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work sta...

Storegraven

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centra...

Fjelberg

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The beautiful vicarage on the Fjelberg Island lies a few minutes walk up from the fjord, in a compact enclosure with the church south of the main buil...

Halsnøy Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the ...