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![The chest from Sekse, painted by Gunnar Årekol in 1813.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_388-3.jpg?itok=12rL18qi)
![Hardanger Folk Museum](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/hardanger20folkemuseum.jpg?itok=qxQqq1YB)
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Kjerland
On the farms Kjerland and Røynstrond, east of the river that flows into the fjord, we find many decorative painters who belong to the so-called sòlekistemålarane in Hardanger: Knut and Mikkjel Røynstrand and Johannes Jonsson Kjærland.
![Rosemåling](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/frette.jpg?itok=NK9-3KWy)
![Boat engines, Norwegian Engine Museum in Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_189_motormuseum_1_150.jpg?itok=CDwNdWQJ)
![Gjerde church at Etne](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_186_y.jpg?itok=6BRujecm)
![Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_393-1.jpg?itok=d1meAEuf)
Ullensvang church
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1309. At that time the present Gothic stone church must have been new. Judging by the style in the western portal and the eastern chancel windows, the church must have been built around 1300 or just before, probably by builders from Bergen influenced by the English Gothic style.
![A wedding at Kinsarvik church early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_390-1.jpg?itok=j36S-Hzq)
Kinsarvik church
By all accounts the church in Kinsarvik must have been one of the four main churches in the old Horda County. The stone church standing today was restored by cathedral architect Chr. Christie in 1880, and again by Peter Helland-Hansen in 1960-61. At that time an archaeological investigation was undertaken, which has unearthed new knowledge about the church.
![Storegraven and Granvin church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_365-4.jpg?itok=t9act0tk)
Storegraven
The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centrally situated at Granvinsvatnet, by the important traffic artery between Hardanger and Voss, where the road takes off to Ulvik.