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![Ryvarden lighthouse (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_172-1s.jpg?itok=1-55erzn)
Ryvarden
In the Islandic Landnåmabok there is a story that the explorer Floke Vilgjerdsson built a cairn “where meetest Hordaland and Rogaland” and the cairn was named Flokavarði. Tormod Torfæus wrote in Historia Norvegica (1711) that this name was still in use, but that the farmers used “Ryvarden” for the same place.
![Tjernagelshaugen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-173-1.jpg?itok=MnCkbLQ1)
Tjernagel
For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn in his account of Knut the Mighty, who in the year of 1028 sailed from Denmark to Nidaros: “And in front of the old cairn at Tjernagel sailed soldiers sharp with peace”.
![The gold ring from Vikse.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_176-3.jpg?itok=xoq393Bj)
![Vossevangen around 1890.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_346-1.jpg?itok=eNbPT8K3)
Vangskyrkja
Vangskyrkja (Vangen church) is the largest of the medieval churches in Hordaland; one of the four “fjordung” churches in the county. A royal letter from 1271 shows that the church was under construction at this time. Vossevangen at Vangsvatnet, where the wide and expansive valleys of the Voss communities meet, was the natural location for a church.
![The rock paintings in Grødalshaug, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_234-x.jpg?itok=3teSxvuP)
Grødalshaug
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of the rock is a steep rock cliff facing the valley, the bog and the stream. On this rock face we find rock carvings from the Bronze Age.
![Lyse chapel, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_238-1.jpg?itok=QUOPChLG)
Lyse chapel
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the monastery estate, following the takeover of the property by the District Recorder (Stiftskriver) Niels Hanssøn Schmidt two years previously. The chapel, with its harmonic proportions, lies in the cultural landscape beside the grand monastery estate, witness to a time gone by. But even today, there is a tradition of high mass on the 2nd day of Ascension in Lyse Chapel.
![The Gramshaug rock paintings.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh175.jpg?itok=hgFlf3um)