University of BergenPublished: 20.02.2013 | Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Mo with the Otterstad farm in the background early in the 1900s. At Mo is stored gravel and sand. (KK Bergen, KK pk 2632, Bs. UBB.)
Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the farm were probably constructed a little after the middle of the 1800s. Both here and on the Mo side, the boatsheds were important storage places at the seashore; wood and other farm products intended for the town; corn and merchandise in return.
Just before Christmas 1743 something happened that made a great impact on Otterstad and the Mo farm. This year there was a great flood in the river that tore away a narrow stretch of gravel out by the Mostraumen (Mo current). The sea flooded into what was earlier the Mo Lake, thus transforming it to the Mo Fjord. The shore of the former lake was left lying lower than previously, and the Mo farm acquired new fields towards the fjord; “Nerebøen” (the nether field).
"M/S Bruvik"
“M/S Bruvik” on its last trip through Mostraumen in 1976.(Helge Sunde).
- Litleskare, J. (1933) Mo kyrkja (Moe Capell) og Eksingedalen kyrkja (Fladeqval Capell). Bergen.
