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The runic stone at Barmen

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the island of Barmen there is rune stone ¿south along the shore". The runes date from the elder futhark alphabet with 24 signs. The inscription has...

The track around Selja

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
Selja, the holy island which has such an important place in our history, is situated about one kilometre off the mainland. The island covers an area o...

The old warning beacons in Selje

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
In former times burning beacons formed part of a network of warning system that the enemy was on their way. At times of unrest and national emergencie...

The coastal fort at Storeneset

Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kjell-Ragnar Berge
At the point of Storeneset on the road out to Eltvik the Germans in 1942 built a coastal fort with six French field guns and a number of smaller guns ...

War memorial at Hovden in Ervik, and at Kjerringa

Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kjell-Ragnar Berge
As early as in the winter of 1942-43, the Germans started the construction of a road from Ervik and up to Hovden, but it was only in the summer of 194...

Selje vicarage

Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
The vicarage at Selje has long-established traditions dating back to the Middle Ages, with the first written reference about 1350. The old name of the...

The 'marsh men' at Stadlandet

Foretak / Association
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
According to the Voting Rights Act from 1814, the right to vote in rural areas was limited to officials and land owners. The Act did not require any m...

The artist Bernt Tunold

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
When were you born, asked the journalist who interviewed Bernt Tunold in 1934. In 1577, replied Tunold. In 1577, asked the puzzled reporter. What happ...

The artist Isak Ræfsnes

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
Isak Refsnæs (1852 - 1928) from Stadlandet painted both landscapes and portraits. Nevertheless, he is best known as a "marine" painter and interpreter...

War grave at Selje church - Ole Dagfinn Eide

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 12.05.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Both during and after the war fatal accidents happened when people inadvertently stepped on mines. At Osmundvåg, the 18-year-old Ole Dagfinn Eide died...

The Ervik service - a centuries-old tradition

Festival / Festival
Published: 19.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 2003, a large number of people attended the Ervik service. The vicar gave a brief account of the tradition around this annual sermon ...

The memorial chapel at Ervik and the "Sanct Svithun" tragedy

Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the autumn of 1943 the coastal express steamer "Sanct Svithun" was bombed by allied aircraft in the shipping lane off Stad. More than 50 persons pe...

Forest and memorial stone at Ersholmen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
On the small island of Ersholmen between the mainland and the island of Selja the first attempt at afforestation at Selje was carried out by the vicar...

Memorial stone commemorating those who lost their lives during the Second World War from Selje.

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
18 persons from Selje lost their lives as a consequence of the Second World War. Many of these were seamen. The people of Selje erected the memorial...

Memorial stone at Leikanger church in Selje

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 09.08.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
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Memorial for the poet vicar Claus Frimann

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Claus Frimann, born 1746, was vicar at Davik for 42 years. He is known as the poet vicar in Nordfjord, best known perhaps for his book "Almuens sanger...

Room to commemorate Russian prisoners of war

People and Society
Minne / Reminder
Published: 12.05.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
After the Second World War, 21 corpses were found at the camp for prisoners of war at Ervik in Selje. They were first buried on the graveyard at Ervik...

The church site Bø on the island of Selja

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Borgny Dam-Nielsen
Bø is the name of a farm on the eastern side of the island of Selja. Bø is one of the oldest farm names in Norway, indicating a big, central farm on a...

Leikanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Leikanger church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Leikanger on the eastern side of Stadtlandet in the municipality of Selje. The churc...

Selje church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Selje church is a wooden longchurch located north of the Seljesanden beach in the municipality of Selje. The church, with a seating capacity of 500,...