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Li
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Bu
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Mo
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The farms in Modalen are situated on old, fertile sediment beds from the river or the sea – between Mofjorden and Steinslandvatnet. As far back as the...
1905 - The municipality of Selje
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting¿s parliamentary resolution on 7 June. This ...
1905 - Solund Municipality
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Kjerstin Risnes
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 7 Jun...
1905 - Askvoll Municipality
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 7 Jun...
1905 - The municipality of Førde
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Kjerstin Risnes
In 1905 Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 6 June...
1905 - The Storting representative Ivar Lind
People and Society
Person / Person
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 06.12.2004
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting resolution of 7 June. This artic...
1905 - Gjert Holsen, member of the Storting
People and Society
Person / Person
Politikk / Politics
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 06.12.2004
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution in the Storting on 7 June. This article is abou...
1905 in Florø - memories from that year written 40 years later
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.01.2005
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent nation. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Norwegian Storting's resolution of 7 June....
1905 - The municipality of Sogndal
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 20.02.2005
Author:
Berit Selseng
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting¿s parliamentary resolution of 7 June. This ...
1905 - Vågsøy municipality
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 16.03.2005
Author:
Gunnar Urtegaard
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by a parliamentary resolution of the Norwegian S...
1905 - The municipality of Bremanger
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Karianne Schmidt Vindenes
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Norwegian Storting's (Parliament) resolut...
1905 - Gulen municipality
People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author:
Karianne Schmidt Vindenes
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Norwegian Storting's resolution of 7 June...
About Kringom
Published: 05.04.2024
Ådland
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ådland, innermost in the Samnanger Fjord is an old church centre and transport centre; a nodal point in the transport from sea to land. The white pain...
Ådlandsstova
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautiful...
Ådlandsvatnet
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Stein Byrkjeland
Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living...
Ænes
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Hans Emil Lidén
Ænes has been one of the prosperous farms at the Mauranger Fjord in medieval times. At the time of Harald Gilles, around 1130, we hear of GAUT at Ænes...
Ænesdalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...
Aga
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustere...
Agastølen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Whoever wanders the mountain plateau will form time to time hit upon old mountain summer farms, with solid old stone sheds, half sunk into the ground;...
Ågotnes - crystals
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...
Ågotnes - Stonechat
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
STONECHAT ...
Åkrafjorden
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Magnus Saltnes
Ingvald Skålnes
Aksnesholmane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is ...
Ålfoten church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Ålfoten church is a cog-joint wooden longchurch in the village of Ålfoten in the municipality of Bremanger. The church can seat 100, and it was buil...
Alfred Maurstad - from Tuftene in the hamlet of Maurstadgrenda
Musikkinstrument / Musical Instrument
Musikk / Music
Musikkverk / Musical work
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
The actor Alfred Maurstad (1896-1967) was born and grew up at Bryggja in the western part of Nordfjord. The home of his childhood was the smallholding...
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...
Alverstraumen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The hostelry in Alverstraumen was in operation in 1660, but we do not know for certain how old the place really is. From the time of the sagas the inn...
Ålvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
BRONZE FIND FROM ÅLVIK...
Alvøen
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for...
Anchor at Værlandet - memorial of shipwreck
People and Society
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 30.11.2005
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In the night of 30 December 1919, the SS "Orm Jarl" ran aground to the west of Alden. Two salvage vessels arrived at the disabled ship, and for some t...
Ancient relics in bog and stone
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The rocky ground in Solund did not invite people to carve art into it. But there were numerous shelters which were suitable as living quarters for t...
Andvikedalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
ELM- AND LIME TREE...
Andviki
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anna Karina Stang
Musikk / Music
Musikkverk / Musical work
Person / Person
Published: 28.09.1999
Author:
Liv Fridtun (1970 - )
Anna Stang (1899-1996) is a fine representative of the singing tradition in the western Sunnfjord district. Her repertoire was varied and comprised di...
Ånuglo
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Harald Salvesen
Stein Byrkjeland
Take a tour to Ånuglo on a warm summer's day. You can anchor up in Skipavågen and go exploring along the beach. Or, you can find giant holly trees and...
Årbakka - The prehistoric site
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through t...
Årbakka - The trading center
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
THE TRADING CENTRE...
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
...
Årekol
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
GUNNAR ANFINSEN ÅREKOL ...
Arkitecture Guide Bergen
Published: 12.05.2025
Arnatveit
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in th...
Årsand
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shal...
Årskog
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Arne Tislavoll
Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm ...
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...
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...
Ask - The king's estate
People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anders Bjarne Fossen
Ask - jordbær
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...
Askrova "bedehus" chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 14.12.2000
Author:
Harald J. Stavang
Askrova "bedehus" chapel was consecrated by bishop Ragnvald Indrebø on 14 April, 1957. However, the planning was started much earlier, actually as far...
Askvoll nursing home
Sjukehus / Hospital
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
At Ask in Askvoll municipality, the county of Sogn og Fjordane for more than 40 years provided a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Tuberculosi...
Askvoll during the Viking Period
Slag / Battle
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
Askvoll is centrally located on the sea lane, and in the surrounding area several sea battles were fought during the Viking Period. The Norse saga lit...
Askvoll church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Askvoll church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Askvoll. The church has a seating capacity of 425, and it was consecrated on 13 Decemb...
Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing - big fisheries in the 1950s
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In the course of the 1950s, tuna fishing became big fisheries, which in the summer season employed a great many fishermen and vessels from Solund. The...
Aurlandsvangen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Bygd / Village
Published: 12.11.2007
Author:
Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
The place name of Aurlandsvangen comprises a large area, corresponding to the Vangen "sokn" (sub-parish). This includes the farms along the fjord from...
Bakholmen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ronny B. Skaar
On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this w...
Bakka church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Torkjell Djupedal
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Bakka church is a so-called longchurch made of wood, located in the hamlet of Bakka in the Nærøyfjord. The church, with a seating capacity of 200, was...
Bakko
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the Nationa...
Batalden "bedehus" chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 05.12.2002
Author:
Torkjell Djupedal
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Batalden "bedehus" chapel is an extended "bedehus" built in wood on the island of Fanøya in the municipality of Flora. The "bedehus" chapel, which has...
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
...
Begla - weapons depot with sinister shadows
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The bay of Beglevågen in westernmost Solund must be the smallest in the country. Here the resistance movement had a weapons depot during the Second ...
Beitelen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fjell / Mountain
Published: 15.11.2007
Author:
Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
Beitelen is one of the most famous landmarks in the Nærøyfjorden World Heritage area. The characteristic mountain top offers an excellent view of the ...
Bekkjarvik
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
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...
Bergen - Rain City
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Karsten Eitrheim
"With its strange situation (surrounded by high mountains), this city has the advantage of a beautiful port and considerable shipping, but also the di...
Bergen anno 1320
Published: 13.06.2025
Bergen – The Urban Community
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
Bergen - our first royal residence city – has for centuries been Norway’s, and for long periods, Scandinavia’s biggest city. The historical monuments ...
Bergenhus
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...
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...
Bergensbanen - snow measurements
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Arve Tvede
Opponents of the Bergen Railway used the snow argument for all it was worth. During the debate in Parliament before the decision about the route was r...
Bergesfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...
Bergsdalen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...
Berle church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Berle church is a local church community centre in the village of Berle in the municipality of Bremanger. The church, which can seat 210 persons, wa...
Bernhard Færøyvik - pioneer in coast vessels history
Person / Person
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Bernhard Færøyvik from Solund was one of our most prominent vessel historians. He was a pioneer as well as an adviser in drawing and visualizing the o...
Bjellandsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is...
Bjoreidalen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Bjoreidalen is one of the classic bird localities on Hardangervidda. It is especially known for its wading birds, with as many as 17 of the 19 wader s...
Bjørsvik
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Stein Byrkjeland
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...
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, ...
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...
Boat-landing facilities at Kråkenes
Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gunnar Urtegaard
The people of Kråkenes have always been faced with bad landing sites. There were five known sites: Storehola, Keila, Stiksvika, Bleke and Synstestøa...
Boga
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
In the lightly undulating landscape at Boga there lies an old house with several rooms on a small rise. In fact it looks like three houses built into ...
Bolstad
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
The village at Bolstadøyri acquired its structure around the middle of the 1800s, but from the old days there has been a meeting place here; court loc...
Bømlahamn
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Bømoen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bondhusdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
J. Riis-Simonsen
The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s...
Bordalsgjelet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...
Borgåsen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Bjørn Myhre
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and ...
Borgund stave church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Borgund stave church is situated in the village of Borgund in the municipality of Lærdal. The church is said to be built about 1150, and is consider...
Børtveit
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Børtveit is known to be a place with a lot of rain. We must go to Samnanger or Indre Matre to find a higher rainfall. The average rainfall on Børtveit...
Botnavatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...
Botnen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive...
Brandasund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
On Gisøya Island, on the west side of Brandasund Sound, there is a very privileged trading post and traveller's Inn from the 1600s, with the North Sea...
Brandvikneset
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Per Harald Salvesen
ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...
Brattholmen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The old guesthouse location in Brattholmen on the east side of Litlesotra, was probably established in the first half of the 1700s. A list from 1748 m...
Breiviksundet
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Sigmund Alsaker
There are still fishing sheds standing that were in use right up until the former turn of the century during the winter fisheries. The owners of these...
Brekke church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Brekke church is a longchurch built in wood, located in the village of Brekke on the Risnesfjord in the municipality of Gulen. The church has a seat...
Brekke
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
PER SIVLE ...
Brekkhus
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
BREKKHUS IN TEIGDALEN – A CRAFT CENTRE...
Bremanger church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Bremanger church is a longchurch built in wood and located at Hauge, in the innermost part of the bay of Bremangerpollen in the municipality of Brem...
Bru
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a traditi...
Bruknappen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Aud Karin Skagen
The hostelry place in Bruknappen is situated north in Radsundet, just south of Festo, by a sheltered idyllic bay, close to the main lane. Sloops both ...
Bryggen
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
In the 1300s Bergen was a trading centre of European dimension. The town is thought to have had around 7000 inhabitants and was the largest and most i...
Buadalsbrotet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...
Buardalen Valley
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
Bjørn Moe
Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mo...
Bukken
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Hans Emil Liden
In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch fu...
Bulandet 'bedehus' chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Bulandet "bedehus" chapel is an extended "bedehus" built in wood, located on the point of Kjempeneset on the island of Musøya in the municipality of A...
Byfjorden
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Herman G.Gade
Swimming and fishing is fully possible in Byfjorden (By Fjord). The water is of good quality most places, after considerable resources have been used ...
Bygda Dyrdal
Landscape
Grend / Hamlet
Published: 01.10.2007
Author:
Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
A small greenstone (greenschist) axe from the Stone Age may be an indication that there has been a settlement since prehistoric times in the village o...
Byparken
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it i...
Byrkjehaugen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
On the farm Bø, close to the highway between Bulken and Voss lies Byrkjehaugen, one of the largest burial mounds in West Norway. Originally it was aro...
Byrknesøy chapel
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 27.11.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Byrknesøy chapel was originally a "bedehus" (a lay evangelical house) located in the extreme western part of the municipality of Gulen. The chapel, ...
Cannery at Sauesund
Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 01.10.2001
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
The production of canned crab on the Sogn og Fjordane coast was started and had the largest volumes at Askvoll. Crab fishing is also rich in this di...
Cholera gravesites in Gulen
Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
In the 19th century, there were two outbreaks of cholera in Norway, in 1831 and 1848. The first one did not reach western Norway but the second one ...
Church Art – a Message in Pictures
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Henrik von Achen
In the still and dim church interiors of the Middle Ages the performances of belief came to life in the gleam from the wax candles. Here the essential...
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
...
Civil Servants in Small Societies 1650 – 1850
People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Anne-Hilde Nagel
The white painted Rococo building on Hesthamar, the magistrate’s estate just north of Utne in Hardanger, with its steep, pointed gable roof stands out...
Clip fish-drying in Solund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 19.12.2001
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
...
Conglomerate for nuisance, benefit, and decoration
Naturformasjon / Natural structure
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The glacier did not reach out to the westernmost islands of Solund. In return, it left a rich collection of conglomerate stone eastward on the islands...
Contact us
Published: 05.04.2024
Contact
Published: 06.02.2024
Cover against the seal, hiding places at the water's edge
Felle / Trap
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In a number of places along the coast, seal hunting from land has taken place. A sheltered bay with skerries and rocks near the shore was a good platf...
Cultural monument of the church site on the island of Silda
People and Society
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
On the island of Silda there was a church from about 1320 to 1580. It was a chapel church in the parish of Selje. It was no longer in use after a new ...
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Svein Indrelid
The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy...
Dale power station
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...
Dale farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...
Dale
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anders Haaland
THE INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENT OF DALE ...
Dalland
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Harald Dalland
Arne Emil Christensen
Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Neumann
Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...
Dalsøyra "bedehus"
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 02.06.2006
Author:
Olav Molde
The layment movement was very strong around 1900. Laymen preachers from various Christian organizations travelled around in the villages, holding meet...
Damsgård
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
As a fairytale castle Damsgård Hovedgård lies on the slope rising up from the Puddefjord. The old connection between the farm and the sea, as we see i...
Davik church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author:
Margrethe Henden Aaraas
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Davik church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Davik in the municipality of Bremanger. The church, with a seating capacity of 500, was ...
Dean Niels Griis Alstrup Dahl - public educator and welfare reformer
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gunnar Ellingsen
Dean Niels Griis Alstrup Dahl (1778 - 1852) was called a public educator and a patriot. His work as a vicar is somewhat overshadowed by everything he ...
Demographic Growth – A Drive to Development
People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Ståle Dyrvik
The cultural landscape or that part of it which is still green and inviting to the eye has been shaped by the farmers’ toil down through the generatio...
Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
...
Digernes
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Bjørn Moe
Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...
Djønno
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
LION ANT...
Domkirken
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
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...
Drageid canal
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Kåre Dalland
Dragseidet
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Torkjell Djupedal
Dragseidet occupies a famous place in Norwegian history due to one major event: the christening assembly in 997, when King Olaf Tryggvason assembled i...
Drøna
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Erling Rykkelid
GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...
Dyrdal
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...
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...
Earth and stone
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes...
Editorial staff
Published: 05.04.2024
Eidfjord church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anne Marta Hoff
The old stone church at Eidfjord has an open position on the terrace at Lægreid. In a diploma from 1310 it transpires that Torgeir on Sponheim donated...
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 ...
Eikangervågen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
TUFTED DUCKS IN EIKANGERVÅGEN BAY ...
Eikefjord church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Torkjell Djupedal
Eikefjord church is a cruciform church built in wood located in the village of Eikefjord in the municipality of Flora. The church - with 350 seats - w...
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...
Einstapevoll - the farm
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Einstapevoll (from einstape: “bregne” (fern)) lies on the west side of the Tittelsnes peninsula. Up to 1831 the farm was a vicarage belonging to Stord...
Einstapevoll - slates
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...
Eio
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
Eksingedalen - landscape
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...
Ekso
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
In the late 1800s, Ekso was known among the nobility in England as having among the best salmon rivers. In summer the Lords could haul in big fish of ...
Eldsfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Håkon Austrheim
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...
Engesund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Stein Erik Gilj
For more than 350 years Engesund has been a place for hostelries and trading in the Fitjar islands. The place is centrally placed in the shipping lane...
Engesundsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Engevik
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anders Kåre Engevik
Halfway into the Sævareidfjord lies the officer’s farm Engevik. In the beginning of the 1700s the farm was in part estate of the crown and owned by fa...
Engevikhavn
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anders Kåre Engevik
The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre develope...
Erslandsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
CANADA GEESE - AN IMPORT WITH AN AFTER TASTE ...
Ervik church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 05.09.2002
Author:
Torkjell Djupedal
Sigurd Vengen
Anders Gjerde
Ervik church is a longchurch built in brick and concrete, located in the bay of Ervika, far to the west at Stadtlandet in the municipality of Selje....
Espe
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...
Espevær - the Trading Post
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Kari Shetelig Hovland
In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local c...
Espevær - lobster park
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
William Helland-Hansen
The first Lobster Park in Espevær was built in 1887, and at the most there were three here. Operations ceased in 1957. The one lobster park that remai...
Espevær-The UFO-Ring
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Olav Aas
In Svartaneset on the west side of Espevær in October of 1975, a large oval imprint was discovered in an undulating field, where the grass had been fl...
Espevik
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...
Espevikpollen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
OYSTER DAMS ...
Etne river
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
There is still life to be found that is just “hanging on a string”. The Etne river has been the most important river for sports- fisherman in Hordalan...
Etnedeltaet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Sveil Olaf Dahl
Stein Byrkjeland
During the latter half of the 1900s the big natural river deltas on Westland disappeared. Until the 1980s there was still a small, but significant rem...
Evanger
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Evanger (from Old Norse ålvangr, “vang”, “voll” (field) where the horses may graze) is the place where the river from Vangsvatnet, the Voss watercours...
Exciting history in a closed-down school building
Skule / School
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
The closed-down school building at Holevik at Staveneset has been changed into a museum where the main theme is World War II. ...
Fadnesskaret
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...
Færavåg
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ernst Berge Drange
The main house at Færavåg was built in 1599. History tells us that a German came to Færavåg and built the house. He divided the land between his two s...
Færøysund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Harald Johan Sandvik
The old trading post lies at the sound between Stord and Færøy in Langenuen. There was a country store and steamship forwarding agent up to 1964. The ...
Fana church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Frederik Konow Lund
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
In the Middle Ages the stone church in Fana was a place for pilgrimage, containing a miraculous silver crucifix that could heal the sick. A hill to th...
Fantoft Stave Church
Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...
Farm flour mills in Solund
Mølle / Mill
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Few associate grain cultivation with the Solund landscape. Nonetheless, even in the smallest of streams there are visible signs of flour milling. Le...
Farmers and Settlements
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
From 4,500 to 5,000 years ago most of Hordaland was a landscape of forest, right out to the coast and the islands. With our inner eye we can see old o...
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...
Father and son Bakke - prominent liberals from Holmedal
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
During the second half of the 1800s, there was a large-scale rise in Norwegian national culture and intellectual life, and at the head were the "rad...
Fedje bog
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The wild rabbit is really native to Northwest Africa, but the Ancient Romans introduced them to large parts of Europe. Not to Norway, rightly enough: ...
Fedje traffic office
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Frank Johnsen
Ferstad
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s....
Fet
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Anne Hilde Nagel
Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary
People and Society
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...
Finnås
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...
Finnås rectory
People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Tore Lande Moe
WOODEN CLOGS AND POTATOES ...
Finne
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Peter Bonde, who owned Finne towards the end of the 1200s, had a jumping stag in his family emblem. This stag is the origin for the heraldic blazon of...
Finse
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Wenche Eide
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete wi...
Finsefetene
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
Firda Billag
Billag / Bus company
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
Firda Billag is the biggest automobile company in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. It is owned by 13 municipalities and has its headquarters in Førde...
Fishermen monument at Nord-Vågsøy church
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
At Nord-Vågsøy church, there is a memorial for fishermen who are lost at sea. It was erected by local people in 1998....
Fishing ground bearings - the key to the harvest of the sea
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Most of the fishing ground bearings (called ¿méd" in Norwegian) are today forgotten. But once, having good fishing bearings for oneself could be compa...
Fitjar - the King's farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most...
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