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The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn
“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...

A True Gold Mine

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Kolle
THE GREAT HERRING ADVENTURE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY In that year the adventure started at Christmas time. The scene is a rural district on the fjord in...

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 ...

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...

Måge

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visi...

Troldhaugen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Stone quarry in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Hordaland has been through several "Stone Ages". The first was in the real Stone Age, with Bømlo as its centre. Hard stone as tools and weapons was th...

Mining in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Ølve has the oldest known mines in Hordaland. In 1642, privilege was granted by the king to build an iron works in Jernsmuget on the property of Lille...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

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...

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Tveit

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

Tysse

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland
As early as 1862 Svein L.Røsseland started a country store and lodging house at Ytre Tysse, and later on he became steamship agent and the first post ...

Årekol

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

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
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