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![The smokehouse at Vika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_378-3.jpg?itok=bQsLSdp6)
![Dwelling house and store from the Øystese hamlet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_370-1.jpg?itok=7m6cFMFJ)
![Norheimsund seen from Tolo around the turn of the former century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_371-1xx.jpg?itok=N0nElTs1)
Norheim
Norheim, “the farm by the narrow sound” is mentioned in a diploma from the Middle Ages and in an inheritance document. This is one of the large farms in Hardanger, of those that belonged to the powerful families; Sandven in Kvam, Torsnes in Jondal, Aga in Ullensvang and Spånheim in Ulvik.
![Smokehouse in Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_372_z.jpg?itok=BTL-Cz8e)
Vikøy
Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger, has obtained a central position in the Norwegian national romanticism.
![Tangarås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_377-2.jpg?itok=GLZcKtJn)
Tangarås
From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settlements in West Norway made a strong impression on the young boy when his family moved from Setesdal, from “the stifling mystique of the ballad”, to Strandebarm in 1876. The new district doctor bought the old captain’s farm at Tangarås, which had for some time been a military head farm after Håbrekke further into the settlement.
![Nestunet by Nesvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_378_x.jpg?itok=TEDlV-ov)
Nes
The farm Nes lies directly inside Mundheim on a forested headland in the fjord between Mundheimsvika and Bondesundet, a farm with an attractive and well-kept cultural landscape.
![Ådlandsstova, as it stood at Nedre Ådland, Stord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-2_sk_414.jpg?itok=cG31Cib5)
Ådlandsstova
The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautifully oval-cut. One story links the cottage to the Gildeskålbakken at Orninggård (Lower Ådland); thus indicating that the cottage has been the medieval banqueting hall. The building has been dated back to the 13-1400s by carbon dating.
![Skrivargarden in “”Kåravikjo”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_210-2.jpg?itok=sQdjqHps)
![Ask mot Herdlefjorden og Holsnøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_18.jpg?itok=31Vc89f-)
Ask- jordbær
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in 1909 for growing strawberries on Hop, it appeared that the soil and climate in this area was perfect for the mass production of strawberries.
![Stone quarry in Kollevågen, 1922](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_21.jpg?itok=Xnws-T7D)