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Skjeggedal
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ålmerket
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
LARS KINSARVIK AND TROND LARSSON HUS I stova si på Ålmerket i Kinsarvik dreiv Trond Larsson Hus (1806–1878) i mange år ei blømande handelsverksemd. H...
Exciting history in a closed-down school building
Skule / School
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
The closed-down school building at Holevik at Staveneset has been changed into a museum where the main theme is World War II. ...
Askvoll nursing home
Sjukehus / Hospital
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
At Ask in Askvoll municipality, the county of Sogn og Fjordane for more than 40 years provided a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Tuberculosi...
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...
Geita lighthouse
People and Society
Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Anders Gjerde
On the eastern Geita (literally: the Goat), a small island in the Buefjorden between Aralden and Værlandet, the Geita lighthouse is located. The easte...
Askvoll during the Viking Period
Slag / Battle
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
Askvoll is centrally located on the sea lane, and in the surrounding area several sea battles were fought during the Viking Period. The Norse saga lit...
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...
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...
Klausen Mekaniske Verksted Ltd.
Skipsverft / Ship yard
Published: 14.09.2001
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
The business at Bøvika was established by Jørgen Klausen in 1948. His brother Olav joined later, and became the manager. Until 1980, the operation w...
Vilnes church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Vilnes church is a longchurch built of logs located at Vilnes on the southern tip of the island of Atløy in the municipality of Askvoll. The church wa...
Askvoll church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Askvoll church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Askvoll. The church has a seating capacity of 425, and it was consecrated on 13 Decemb...
Bulandet 'bedehus' chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Bulandet "bedehus" chapel is an extended "bedehus" built in wood, located on the point of Kjempeneset on the island of Musøya in the municipality of A...
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...
The Gjelsvik stone
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
Professor Nikolaus Gjelsvik (1866-1938) was born at the farm of Gjelsvik in the municipality of Vevring, now Askvoll municipality. He is regarded as...
Father and son Bakke - prominent liberals from Holmedal
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
During the second half of the 1800s, there was a large-scale rise in Norwegian national culture and intellectual life, and at the head were the "rad...
The rock carvings at the point of Staveneset in Askvoll
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
On the weather-exposed Staveneset, one of the westernmost points on mainland Norway, we find ancient traces of human activities. ...
The great transformation in Stongfjorden
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial sites in Norway, and its aluminium plant was the first in Scandinavia....
The mines at Grimelia
Gruve / Mine
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
In June 1759, "Grimmeliens Kobberværk" was given royal privilege to run mining operations within a radius of about 20 kilometers. This included Sørd...
Trollefos Uldvarefabrik
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
For more than thirty years the Trollefossen waterfall on the farm of Engjabøen at Holmedal provided the woollen mill by the same name with electric ...
Helle Teglverk
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
From the 1890s until around 1920, the old municipality of Fjaler was the most industrialized of the municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane...
Vårdal teglverk
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
From the 1890s until around 1920, the old municipality of Fjaler was the most industrialized of the municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. ...
Memorials for war airmen at Askvoll
People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 03.12.2000
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
On Midsummer Eve, 23 June 1943, an Allied airplane crashed on the shore near the home of Chester Saltskår at the point of Stavenes. The two Norwegian ...
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 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...
Menhir at Holmedal
Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 02.10.2000
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 1999 Harald Bakke from Holmedal rescued a menhir from ending up at the bottom of the sea. The stone had lain in the pebbles, and ...
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 Askvoll church for fallen soldiers 1940-1945
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In the churchyard at Askvoll, there is a memorial stone with 16 names, - all from the municipality of Askvoll, who lost their lives during the war...
Memorial stone for the brothers Asbjørn and Vemund Melvær
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
Magnus and Marie Melvær lost their two sons during the war 1940-1945. Asbjørn, born 1908, died in captivity in Germany. Vemund, born 1922, was los...
Vik
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The farm Vik in Jondal has been one of the earliest settled farms in Jondal; a good and fertile farm east of the river. Legends hold that mighty men h...
Torsnes
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Leif Galtung
When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process ...
Svåsand
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along...
Herand - Tveiti sawmill
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Sverre Haugen
Amund Tveiten
Tveiti sawmill in Herand is probably the last water-powered sash-saw in the country that has been in regular operation up to our time. There has been ...
Hesthamar
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Bjarne Sørensen
Hesthamar, some kilometres north of Utne, is one of the oldest residences for a district recorder in the country. In 1637, barely 50 years after the o...
Utne
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
When sergeant Peder Larsen Børsem from Strandebarm was “demobilised” in 1721, following the large Nordic War, he married the Bergen lady Elisabeth Sch...
Jåstad
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The farm Jåstad, situated a few kilometres north of Agatunet, must have been a grand farm in medieval times. Torolf on Jåstad is mentioned as arbitrat...
Aga
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustere...
Kvammen chapel
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Kvammen chapel is a local church community centre built in concrete and red brick in the village of Kvammen, on the southern side of the Førdefjord in...
Stongfjorden 'bedehus' chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Stongfjorden "bedehus" chapel is a rebuilt "bedehus" built in wood. It is situated in the village of Stongfjorden in the municipality of Askvoll. The ...
Værlandet "bedehus" chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
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The road connection Værlandet-Bulandet
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The archipelago of Værlandet - Bulandet consists of the area to the west of the Aldefjord. In 1981, Askvoll municipality forwarded a suggestion for a ...
Holmedal church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 03.09.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Holmedal church is a wooden longchurch in the village of Holmedal in the municipality of Askvoll. The church seats 432 and was consecrated on 24 Novem...
"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...
The ferries on the Dalsfjord
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Long before the heated debates about a bridge across the Dalsfjord, there was conflict about roads across and around the Dalsfjord. The roads had to w...
Road between Askvoll and Stongfjorden
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial villages in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with the first aluminium plant in Scandinavia. The industrial...
Røldal
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Hans Emil Lidén
Harald Jordal
The stave church in Røldal was one of the key pilgrimage churches in West Norway. The church was probably built between 1250 and 1350, and in the high...
Dyrskard
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Nils Nonås
Harald Jordal
Right from the start the road across Haukelifjell was a road from “fjord to fjord”, from the bottom of Sørfjorden to Dalen in Telemark. The connection...
Kinsarvik church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Peter Helland-Hansen
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Hans Emil Lidén
By all accounts the church in Kinsarvik must have been one of the four main churches in the old Horda County. The stone church standing today was rest...
Huse
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The farm Huse is situated on a broad terrace in the valley above the church and the commons ground in Kinsarvik. Huse is one of the largest farms in K...
Helleland
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
The old “recorder residence” at Helleland has been both residence for the district recorder and officer’s residence. The main building, which came und...
Ullensvang church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first ...
Måge
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visi...
Tyssedal
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Randi Bårtvedt
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefal...
Odda - The tourist town
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Randi Bårtvedt
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hi...
Reinsnos
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Inge Reinsnos
The mountain settlement Reinsnos is situated at nearly 700 metres above sea level at the end of the Reinsnos lake; an entry point to the Hardanger pla...
Stølsdalen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The grey alder forest down by the river in Stølsdalen is full of life. The many birds are very busy finding enough to eat from day to day – but the bi...
Jonstein
Plant life
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
Landscape
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...
Folgefonna
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...
Sålesnes
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen, Nils Georg Brekke, Atle Sollesnes
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. K...
Herand - geologi
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Øystein Jansen
SCULPTURES IN THE BEDROCK...
Oksen
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
OKSEN – A WEATHER PREDICTOR...
Djønno
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
LION ANT...
Husedalen
Plant life
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 ...
1905 - Askvoll Municipality
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 7 Jun...
Kinso
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
SALMON OF KINSO RIVER...
Huse housing development
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Vidar Valen
RADON GAS IN THE GROUND The country's most comprehensive mapping of radon in homes has been carried out in the housing development Huse in Kinsarvik....
Ullensvang vicarage
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Well over 200 years ago, the priest Niels Hertzberg started making climate observations at the vicarage at Lofthus in Ullensvang. Hertzberg was active...
Opedal
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
FRUIT-GROWING ON FLOOD DEPOSITS The old road through Opedal and Helland in Lofthus gives a beautiful introduction to the Fruit Kingdom, both when in ...
Veivatnet
Plant life
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...
Hårteigen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...
Bleie
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...
Velure
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Inge Aarseth
ANNUAL AVALANCHES South of Velure the mountainsides plunge from 1500 metres right down into Sørfjorden. No place along the fjord has snow avalanches ...
Kvalvikane
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...
Lote
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...
Matskorhæ
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...
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...
Odda - The industrial town
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Karsten Eitrheim
Endre Skaar
Nils Georg Brekke
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...
Buardalen Valley
Landscape
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...
Sandvin
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
It is not easy to know what the conditions are at the nesting grounds when one is far away in winter - perhaps in France or the Mediterranean. At Sand...
Opo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...
Låtefossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...
Grytøyrelva
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...
Valldalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Arvid Odland
Kåre Utaaker
Valldalen or Valdalen, the name that the locals used in past times, had been a permanent settlement for a long time, and later the biggest mountain-fa...
Skredhaugen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Reisete
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
CROSSING THE GLACIER ...
Espe
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...
Jondal
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Torgeir Alvsaker
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Kari Losnedahl
THE HOUSE FOR THE YOUTH MOVEMENT – STRONGHOLD OF NORWEGIANNESS...
Indre Vikane
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
INDRE VIKANE – A TRACE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE LANDSCAPE ...
Herandsholmen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
In 1754 the law officer Andreas Heiberg advised that a guesthouse location be established at Herandsholmen, as there were no lodging places for travel...
Bakko
Archaeology
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...
Hardanger Folk Museum
Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
Håhaugsteinen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Årekol
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
GUNNAR ANFINSEN ÅREKOL ...
Kinsarvik
Archaeology
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...
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...
War graves on Shetland - captain Kristoffer Lutenthun
Gravstein / Gravestone
Person / Person
Published: 17.03.2006
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
On 3 February 1940, the SS "Hop" left Bergen for England in ballast. The boat never got there. Three weeks later, the newspaper Firda Folkeblad had a ...
Anna Karina Stang
Musikk / Music
Musikkverk / Musical work
Person / Person
Published: 28.09.1999
Author:
Liv Fridtun (1970 - )
Anna Stang (1899-1996) is a fine representative of the singing tradition in the western Sunnfjord district. Her repertoire was varied and comprised di...
The struggle for bridge across the Dalsfjord
Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The Dalsfjord bridge has been the most hotly debated communications project in the county and has led to bitter political controversy. The start was t...
Løkeland cannery at Atløy
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 01.10.2001
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
The business was established by Sigurd Løkeland in 1922. Its principal product has been canned crab, au naturel or as paste. Until the 1960s, ca...
The cannery at Askvoll
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Sunnfjord
Fabrikk / Factory
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
When Norway Foods' cannery at Askvoll was closed down in 1992, the production of sardines had gone on for a longer time at Askvoll that at any other p...
Cannery at Sauesund
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 01.10.2001
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
The production of canned crab on the Sogn og Fjordane coast was started and had the largest volumes at Askvoll. Crab fishing is also rich in this di...
Helle Factories
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
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The inn at Sauesund
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Losji / Accommodation
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Anders Gjerde
Sauesund, like most places with an inn, is situated on a sound. The old inn is at Atløy, in the municipality of Askvoll, with a view across the narr...
The trading post of Kjempenes
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Anders Gjerde
Bulandet is situated on the ocean westernmost in the municipality of Askvoll, comprising ten small islands. The trading post of Kjempenes, where the...
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