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![Nils Hertzberg’s prospectus from 1825 of “Ålmerket” and the site of the long ship shed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_390-4.jpg?itok=xZB1WC6Y)
Kinsarvik
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketing place, a “kaupang”, here; a connecting point in the communications between east and west. There were supposedly around 300 residents here but the place was likely wiped out in a great fire.
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)
![Olavskrossen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_346-3.jpg?itok=xw-nvaa7)
![Brekkhus](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_342_brekkhus_150.jpg?itok=TjykXKlw)
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![The iron bars found at Rambjørg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_319-2.jpg?itok=Kl9g7nMT)
![The waterfall at the top of Tokagjelet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_49.jpg?itok=OJAJPjRK)
Tokagjelet
There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of the crooked tunnels far down in the canyon, and the open Steinsdalen valley spreads out before us. The canyon both separates and joins together different epochs in western Norway's history.
![View in over Mostraumen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_16.jpg?itok=GnR34JLO)
Mostraumen
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back across Lake Movatnet. But, that year the flood opened a free passageway all the way to Mo. Hordaland had gained a new tidal waterway.
![The sites show the longhouse, a smaller “old folk’s house” and a hayshed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/3151.jpg?itok=c_m0Rz1s)
Lurekalven
Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islands there is only a small sound. As late as the 1920s, milking cows were rowed over the sound from Lygra in summer – a form of farming that was adapted to the coastal landscape.