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![Hereiane. Jonahornet in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_19.jpg?itok=zuuwq9tu)
Hereiane
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedrock often causes travellers who see it from the north side of the fjord to wonder. Why does it look like this, and why is there so little that grows here? It is a long way to the heavy metal industry in Ålvik and Odda, and there hasn’t been a forest fire in modern times.
![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![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.
![Hårteigen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_26.jpg?itok=3IkRLl38)
Hårteigen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monument for the mighty rock layers that once covered the entire plateau.
![Sålesnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_20.jpg?itok=GdLshTb5)
Sålesnes
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. Kvernurdi is mentioned in a diploma in 1421, when Bård Sigurdsson at Torsnes became the owner through a settlement. Already then it must have been customary to cut millstones here.
![Eidfjord church.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_403-3.jpg?itok=tfrzqYxj)
Eidfjord church
The old stone church at Eidfjord has an open position on the terrace at Lægreid. In a diploma from 1310 it transpires that Torgeir on Sponheim donated a gift for the erection of the church in Eidfjord. Thus we can assume that the church was under construction at the time. The elements in the style confirm such a dating.
![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.