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![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![Avalanche - landslide accident at Kalvanes in Odda in January, 1993.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_1.jpg?itok=D01BzdF_)
Kalvanes
On the 17th of January, 1993, the area between the towns of Odda and Eitrheimsneset were struck by a giant avalanche. One person was killed, and there was a lot of material damage.
![Anatase](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_11.jpg?itok=gFwWuBQa)
![Sculptures in the bedrock](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_23.jpg?itok=fS00QTt-)
![From Grønafjellet toward Kattnakken.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_16.jpg?itok=aYyd-7QK)
Grønafjellet
Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, here and there one nonetheless finds mountain plants, and this makes some coastal mountainsides a little bit different. Perhaps the growth on these mountainsides gives us a little glimpse of a distant past?
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![The stave church in Røldal](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_55-1.jpg?itok=s4rVLQ2e)
Røldal
The stave church in Røldal was one of the key pilgrimage churches in West Norway. The church was probably built between 1250 and 1350, and in the high Middle Ages Røldal was the most important destination for pilgrims in the country beside the Nidaros cathedral. It was the crucifix that attracted people to midnight mass on midsummer night. That was when it excreted its miraculous sweat.
![In the middle of the flat pastures at Torsnes was the farmyard of the estate, undivided until the middle of the 1700s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_381-2_fonna_112.jpg?itok=3bxpYqSH)
Torsnes
When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process of pulling down the old dwelling house on the farm. As the committed observer of ancient monuments and antiquarian buildings that he was, bishop Neumann has provided us with interesting details:
![The Battle of Fitjar from Erik Werenskiold pen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_214-2_ny.jpg?itok=_9eechIK)
Fitjar- the King's farm
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most dramatic events in Norway’s history, the Battle of Fitjar. This was the place where Norway’s king, Håkon the Good, suffered his fatal injury in the fight with Eirik’s sons, probably in the year 961.