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Grødalshaug

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of...

Årstad

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håko...

Høybøen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Kjersti Randers Sigrid H.H. Kaland
In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...

Hop - The royal mounds

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

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 ...

Risøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Hjartøy

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigmund Alsaker
A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....

Møshovd

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Peter Emil Kaland
Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...

Skjelbreid

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...

Vinnesleira

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland
Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...

Holmefjord

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are ...

Samnøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Lona

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

Eidsbøen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...

Ulvensletta

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Bondevik

Os valley

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Døso

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad
On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...

Vargavågen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad Tor Lunde

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...

Fjell river network

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Geir H.Johnsen
There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...

Haganes

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...

Blomvågen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Jan Mangerud
"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

Fossen Bratte

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Åsane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...

Håkonshella

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Isdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...