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Skålafjøro

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE SHIPYARD AT SKÅLAFJØRO...

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby
Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Verftet

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard wa...

Sandviken

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

Liarbø

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll Ivar Skre

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

Sailing Sloops and Boat Building

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Kolle
Marine activities expanded greatly throughout the 19th century, and provided a livelihood for many people. Fishing and shipping were probably the subs...

The Wooden Boat

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arne Emil Christensen
Craftsmanship through two thousand years ...

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...

Vernacular arts and crafts

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
“Stay in the Peace of the Lord from the evil Eye of Envy as the Envied Earth will not let itself be ploughed. Here I eat my bread here I fear my ...

Berge

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Olav Tveiten
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and r...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

Staup

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve
The farm STAUP lies on a shelf in the terrain above Løno. From the highway E16 it is possible to glimpse the houses through the trees. The farm is wit...