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Engevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik
Halfway into the Sævareidfjord lies the officer’s farm Engevik. In the beginning of the 1700s the farm was in part estate of the crown and owned by fa...

Engevikhavn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik
The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre develope...

Øpstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Samson L. Øpstad
The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, b...

Holsund

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Eikelandsosen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...

Hopslia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...

Møshovd

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Dale farm

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...

Straume - Salmon

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From times immemorial salmon and trout have been caught with various tools in the fjord and the streams here. Finds in the Stone Age settlements at Sk...

Stamnes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

Gullbrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From written sources we know that the farm Gullbrå was in use early in the 1600s. The Apostolic church in Bergen owned land here that it rented out, b...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Eksingedalen - landscape

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...

Lake Nesheimvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ekso

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
In the late 1800s, Ekso was known among the nobility in England as having among the best salmon rivers. In summer the Lords could haul in big fish of ...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

Moastølen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Skipshelleren

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland, Svein Indrelid
For vel 7000 år sidan var Straume ein av dei beste – om ikkje den beste – veideplassen i Hordaland. Steinalderfolket som busette seg ved Skipshelleren...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Veafjorden

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Some decades ago, Veafjord and the currents in toward the bigger rivers were the most likely places to see harbour seals in Hordaland. In the summer f...