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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 ...

Tyssøy

Archaeology
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 ...

Trellevik

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

Risøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Goltasundet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils O. Golten
For generations the land-seine was the most important tool for catching herring and mackerel, and therefore a suitable casting bay was worth its weigh...

The Bakkejekta sloop

Communications
Båt / Boat Hamn / Port Handel / Trade
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...

Memorial stone for Sigurd Fossen

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

Memorial for Anders Askevold

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 13.11.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The painter Anders Askevold (1834-1900) is best known for his animal motifs. "A specialist of high rank in the painting of animals", is the characte...

Memorial stone for Bernt Askevold

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 31.10.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the church at Askvoll there is a three-meter-high memorial stone commemorating Bernt Askevold. Into the back is carved: "Venner paa begge...

Memorial stone over Christen Jenssøn

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Around 1950, a big slab of stone with an old inscription was found in the Askvoll churchyard. The carved letters CIS matched Christen Jenssøn, vicar...

Memorial stone for fallen soldiers - from Værlandet and Bulandet

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
In the churchyard at Værlandet there is a memorial stone for fallen soldiers from Værlandet and Bulandet. The stone stands on the grave of one of them...

Memorial stone at the farm of Ytre Ålen for fallen soldiers in the war 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
A short distance from the sea at the farm of Ålen in Askvoll, there is a memorial stone for three young boys who lost their lives in the war 1940-...

Memorial stone at Holmedal for fallen soldiers in the World War 1939-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Six men from the Holmedal parish (earlier Fjaler municipality, now Askvoll) lost their lives during the World War 1939-1945: three on Norwegian me...

Anchor at Værlandet - memorial of shipwreck

People and Society
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 30.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the night of 30 December 1919, the SS "Orm Jarl" ran aground to the west of Alden. Two salvage vessels arrived at the disabled ship, and for some t...

Memorial stone for Ola Espedal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...