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The bailiff farm at Bruland

Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
The bailiff farm at Bruland is held to be one of the best preserved examples of a high-ranking official¿s residence in western Norway. The main buil...

Kirkevollen

Bolig / Residence
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
Kirkevollen is one of two listed public officials' buildings in Førde, the bailiff residence at Bruland being the other. It is beautifully situated at...

The captain farm

Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
Of all the farms at Skei the captain farm Ytre Skei has been owned by public officials, most of them military officers, for the longest uninterrupted ...

The agricultural school at Mo

Skule / School
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
The farm Mo became an agricultural school in 1858, and it is now the second oldest agricultural school in the country still in operation. The farm i...

Sjøahola

Grend / Hamlet
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
Sjøahola is the name of the first built-up area in Førde, and throughout several centuries it was the centre of the community, of communication, com...

Firda Billag

Billag / Bus company
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
Firda Billag is the biggest automobile company in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. It is owned by 13 municipalities and has its headquarters in Førde...

The author Ole Wilhelm Fasting

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
Ole Wilhelm Fasting (1852-1915) was a vicar's son from Førde. He was an engineer, and worked for many years at Bergens Tekniske Skole (school of eng...

The author Kristian Elster the Younger

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
Kristian Elster the Younger (1881-1947) had deep roots in the upper public officials circle in Førde. Evidence of this can be found in his writings....

Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane

Forretningsbygg / Commercial building
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
Starting in the 1960s, comprehensive mergers of banks into larger units have taken place. This process started only in the 1970s in the county of So...

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...

Millennium stone at Holsen

Monument / Monument
Published: 23.11.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
At the turn of the millennium 1900-2000millennium stoneswere erected in many places. At Holsen a stone was put up on the millennium spot in the distri...

Trå

Archaeology
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...

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 ...

Skjervet - river theft

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...

Seglberget

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
HOUSE MARTINS IN STONE WALLS...

Granvinsvassdraget

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Randolf Knotten
After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the ...