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![The clustered community in Hjølmodalen early in 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/hjolmo.jpg?itok=iZcai_B_)
Hjølmo
In the steep hillside in Hjølmodalen, a small side valley from Øvre Eidfjord (Upper Eidfjord), which has been a key entrance to the Hardanger Plateau, the hamlet of old farmhouses still lie clustered together. The yard is empty today, some of the houses are used in the summer, but the grass grows round all the corners.
![Kjeåsen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kjeaasen.jpg?itok=v7Svgfx5)
Kjeåsen
High up above the fjord, at a height of 600m lie the two holdings at Kjeåsen. Today you can drive there by car, through a new tunnel that the power engineers in Sima have drilled. Until 1974 the only road went up the steep hillside, along iron bolted ladders across dizzying rocks – a road for the strong at heart.
![There are two holding in the hamlet at Måbø.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_407-3.jpg?itok=OGwM-qww)
Måbø
Måbø is the uppermost farm in Måbødalen. This narrow and steep mountain valley has been one of the routes from the fjord communities up to the mountain plateau from times immemorial. We are not certain of the meaning of the name Måbø. Perhaps it has its origin in an Old Norse male name Mávi, from the name for seagull, már. The last syllable “bø” means farm. Today Måbø gives us a compact close-up of the subsistence economy: the small farm with the clearance piles, stone walls and a lane that guided the animals into the yard, at the foot of the great mountain expanse.
![The village on Hernar in early 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_290-1_0.jpg?itok=qrlhwvpl)
Hernar
Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favourable weather before heading out west, and this is where the ships from the western Isles came in. Hjeltefjorden is proof of this. The fjord is named after the people from Hjaltland (Shetland).
![The farm at Færavåg, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_224-1.jpg?itok=c4I6NRHp)
Færavåg
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 sons. They in turn divided it between their two sons, thus there were four equal holdings on the farm. And it is said that all households lived in the same house. They each stayed in their own corner around the fire in the middle of the floor.
![The trading post Godøysund at the end of the 1880s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_223-1.jpg?itok=JgA7duW3)
Godøysund
The old hostelry centres were strategically placed with good harbours and anchoring conditions where people travelled. GODØYSUND, or Gøysundet, as it was called, was in the middle of Tysnes Parish, with easy access from the sea, also for the local population. Gøysundet is amongst the oldest hostelries in Sunnhordland.
![The large boathouses at Klinkholmen, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_225-1.jpg?itok=VlmWHr4P)
Klinkholmen
Kubbervik, or Vikjo as it was known colloquially, must have been established as a trading post under the farm of Håland some time around 1600. The reason for this was probably the thriving trade on Scotland. Every year ships from the islands in the west came to buy lumber in Bårsund. Vikjo was the harbour in use, as the place is ideally situated on the route through Bårsund, the sound between Reksteren and Tysnesøy.
![The main house at Nedrevåge, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_221_y.jpg?itok=6T-APezc)
Nedrevåge
Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both large stones and gravel. A lot of what slid down from the Vågsliene (slopes at Våg) collected in Neravåge. It was so bad that the damage “never again can be remedied or restored”, it was said in 1670.
![Botnagrenda](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_369-_2.jpg?itok=9FLr126Z)
Botnen
Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive cultural contact with the outside world.
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
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 tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.