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Skjeggedal

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

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...

Lussand-roadwork

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work sta...

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...

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 ...

The old Kvalheim road

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The village of Kvalheim has the ocean as its next-door neighbour and the landing conditions have always proved difficult in bad weather. There was a s...

The old vaulted bridge at Maurstad

Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the night of 11 October 1984, the more than 100-year-old vaulted bridge at Maurstad collapsed. A road-historical cultural monument was suddenly gon...

The old road between Rimstad and Berstad

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Between the farms of Rimstad and Berstad there used to be an old road, used by pilgrims, postmen and local people alike. There are still many traces o...

"Knut" and two other six-oared boats

Communications
Båt / Boat Transport / Transport
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Årstein Svihus
The "Sunnfjord boat" used to be the common boat type in the Sunnfjord area, but already 150 years ago, it was beginning to lose ground to a modified...

The small town of Undredal

Historier om migrasjon
Bygd / Village Utvandring / Emigration
Published: 25.09.2007
Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
Undredal is a very special small town, located about half-way into the Aurlandsfjord. Until the late 1980s, the town could only be reached by boat. To...

The canal through the strip of land called Florø-eidet

Communications
Kanal / Canal
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
Before the city of Florø was established in 1860, the trade at Florelandet was located in the bay of Gaddevågen and at Eidet. In 1872/73, a canal wa...

Utvær lighthouse - the landmark furthest to the west

Communications
Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
From 1900 to 1920, 37 lighthouses were built in this country. One of these was the Utvær lighthouse, and its impressive and solid construction was bui...

The first roads in Solund

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
Slim and agile, state road 606 winds through the Solund landscape. But it came at a price to knock one's way through the conglomerate, in order to con...

Solund emigrants go west

Historier om migrasjon
Utvandring / Emigration
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Alf Strand
In 1848, the first family emigrated from Solund. Up to 1924, some 200 persons from Solund had found a new home in the USA, and most of them settled ...

In Memory of Fartein Valen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ronny B. Skaar Bjarne Kortsen
“Fartein Valen is the key figure within newer Norwegian music. Not by way of being more popular than other younger composers, but because he aims at t...

Lysøen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland Stephan Tschudi Madsen
Lysøen, this fairytale castle with its Russian-inspired onion dome on the corner turret, stands as a reminder of the diversity of the period called Hi...

Transport and Communication

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bård Kolltveit Erling Virkesdal Anders K. Engevik
THE FJORD STEAMER BOAT “On the quay at Bergen, there lay a boat, So beautifully polished that it shone, With fine masts and a funnel with tone...

Farmers from the Fjords

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Kåre Engevik
Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, tu...

From “Spearway” to National Highway

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Johannes Gjerdåker
1. “SPEARWAY (public road), tracks to the mountain pasture and cattle tracks shall remain as they were from ancient time). 2.When the spearway runs ac...

The Warp-Weighted Loom - A thousand year tradition in weaving

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ivar Skre
The art of spinning, the art of weaving and the art of dyeing wool is knowledge which has been an important resource in the natural household for seve...

Folk Music and the Hardanger Fiddle

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Jostein Mæland
It is in Hordaland County that we find the oldest traces of a folk music stemming from our national instrument, the Hardanger fiddle. And it is still ...

Local Dialects in Hordaland

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Helge Sandøy
Language tells us both about social distance and human contact in many different ways. The dialects show how people who have had connections and deali...

The Literary Landscape

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Idar Stegane
Naturopplevinga hjå lyrikarane våre gjev ofte vår eiga landskapsoppleving ein djupare resonnans-botn, men styrken i naturens krefter kjem også fram, ...

The Artist and his Experience of Nature

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Gunnar Danbolt
På ferd mot vest over Hardangervidda opplever vi det dramatiske panoramaet når vidda går over i djupe bergkløfter og høge fossefall – eit utsyn som ha...

Stalheimskleiva

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
From the oldest times on record in Norway one of the most important traffic arteries between west and east Norway has passed across Bolstad – Voss – S...

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...

Ygre

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak L.Helleve
Ygre Station lies hidden away for highway travellers, just below the road Vossevangen-Mjølfjell. The station building at Ygre was constructed at Nestt...

Tangarås

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settle...

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...

Spjutøy

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Gunn Nordal
At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...

Holmen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
HOLMEN AND THE KØLLE FAMILY Holmen lies by the fjord, innermost in Ulvikpollen. Originally this was a small smallholding or coast dweller’s place b...

Bergensbanen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T.Helleve Atle Ove Martinussen
Already at the beginning of the 1870s demands were made that there had to be a railway connection between Bergen and East Norway. The first section be...

Tveit

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
TWO NEIGHBOURS – THE DECORATIVE PAINTER AND THE FIDDLE MAKER ...

Mørkhølen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Statens vegvesen Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

Li

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Turøyvarden

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Atle Ove Martinussen

Firda - the local newspaper for the whole county

Dialects and arts
Avis / Newspaper
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal
The newspaper Firda is today by far the biggest newspaper in the county, and the only daily. The circulation in 2000 was 14,628. The newspaper cover...

Langebrua

Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
The bridge across the river Jølstra was named after the shopkeeper Hans Christian Fr. Lange, one of the people who took the initiative to build the ...

Road from Florø

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Florø was founded in 1859, and was for close to 150 years the only city in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. What was highly unusual was the fact that t...

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...

The Flåm Railway - built 1923-1940

Communications
Jarnbane / Railway
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
On 10 July 1908, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided to build a railway line between Myrdal and Flåm. The work was not begun until 1923, a...

Åkrafjorden

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Magnus Saltnes Ingvald Skålnes

Frette

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE FRETTE PAINTERS...

Skorven

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Undarheim

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tveito

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
THE HAUGA HOUSE AND THE SKILBECK COLLECTION ...

Troldhaugen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

The Loftesnes bridge in Sogndal

Communications
Sund / Strait
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The Loftesnes bridge was the first bridge and road project in the county to be financed by toll money. The bridge was completed in 1958. In a 20-year ...

Munkebotn

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garnes

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Mannseidet - royal road and national cultural site

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
In former days travelling along the Norwegian coast took mostly place on sea. The old roads across the strips of land called Mannseidet and Dragseidet...

The "Trondhjemske" postal road in Gulen

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 26.09.2005
Author: Kristin Ese
The postal road in Gulen was formerly a part of the "Trondhjemske" postal road. In 1868, the road was no longer used as a postal road as the post was ...

The Royal Postal Road Bleiklindi - Styvi in the Nærøyfjord

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The present main road between Oslo and Bergen follows more or less the same route as the old postal roads did. However, from Lærdal it no longer follo...

The Måløy Bridge - Norway's longest bridge in 1974

Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 02.09.2005
Author: Kristin Ese
The Måløy Bridge was officially opened for traffic in the summer of 1974. The bridge project was realized by means of a strong local involvement and i...

Leirvåg

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ronny B. Skaar Bjarne Kortsen

Opposition to the Flåm Railway

Communications
Strid / Strife
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
When the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in 1883 decided that the line for the Bergen Railway would go by way of Myrdal and Finse, the county counci...

Totland - Måløy - "a highly suitable road"

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Totland-Deknepollen was the last remaining distance before there was a continuous road between Måløy and Oppland across the mountain pass of Strynefje...

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

The main road at Bremangerlandet

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...

Road between Villevika in Flora and Midtgulen in Bremanger

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The farms on the mainland between Florø and Midtgulen had to wait for a long time before they got any road. Up until 1993, people in this area did not...

The road along the fjord between Naustdal and Eikefjord

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The public road between Naustdal-Vevring-Stavang-Eikefjord was completed section by section, and not without discussions. The road between Stavang and...

"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...

Late road connection to the outside world for the industrial town of Svelgen

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
It was the development of hydroelectric power that created the industrial growth in Svelgen from 1914. However, it took a long before any road constru...

The road Oppedal-Instefjord - an important part of the main road network

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The road construction between Instefjord and Oppedal was an important link in the so-called Coastal Highway between Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund, the...

From riding path to road - between Kaupanger and Sogndal

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Kaupanger has always been an important historical place in Sogn. There is a reference to the place in the saga literature and it has been used as a ma...

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...

Os station

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ralph Wilson Anders Kåre Engevik
On Sunday July 1st 1894 the Nesttun-Os railway was opened. “On the platform Consul Gade wished the railway the best of luck, whereupon the first train...

Road and ferry between Byrknesøy and the mainland

Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The road connection between the islands of Mjømna and Byrknesøy was officially opened on 13 September 1997. This was 40 years after the county governo...

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 ...

Drageid canal

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Fedje traffic office

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen

Isdalstø

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...

The track up to the mountain farm of Rimstigen

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 23.02.2006
Author: Åsmund Ohnstad
The farms of Bakka and Tufto are located on the western side of the Nærøyfjord about six kilometres north of the village of Gudvangen. In the mountain...

Årekol

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
GUNNAR ANFINSEN ÅREKOL ...

Brekke

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
PER SIVLE ...

Vallaviki

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjarne Sørensen
When Anders Paulson Wallevik (1874-1965) took over the sloop “Haabet” after his father around 1900, he established a wide-ranging business, merchant, ...

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...

Øystese - Ingebrigt Vik museum

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Reidar Storaas
INGEBRIGT VIK – A CLASSICIST WITHIN NORWEGIAN SCULPTURE ...

Tveit

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Reidar Storaas

Valestrand

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland
OLE BULL AND THE FOLK MUSIC ...

Kossdalen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås
KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...

Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Ole Bull-akademiet

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland
Sigbjørn Berhoft Osa and Ole Bull - Akademiet...

Rekve

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland
FIDDLERS FROM REKVE...

Myrkdalen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
SJUR BYGD...

Reisete

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik
CROSSING THE GLACIER ...

The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 11.07.2006
Author: Kristin Ese
Far to the west towards the ocean lies the hamlet of Kråkenes. A cart road to this place was built in the 1940s. The road could hardly be used in the ...

Espe

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik
HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...

Måbødalen - road construction

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per M. Bremnes
THE ROADS THROUGH MÅBØDALEN...

Stend station

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik