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![Sculptures in the bedrock](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_23.jpg?itok=fS00QTt-)
![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 soil tongues below Jomfrunuten.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_36.jpg?itok=aOfkkEth)
Jomfrunuten
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patterns in stone and earth.
![Osa and the Osa fjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_360xxx.jpg?itok=YQCQAW0y)
Osa
At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast with the steep hillsides in the background, where Norddalen leads up to the mountain. There are two farms here. Osa and Sævartveit – the farm at the river mouth and the hollow by the sea.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![Traces of the dwellings and activity in the quarry.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_464_takskifer_ulvik_2_150.jpg?itok=tTKVd-vg)
![Bordalsgjelet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_33.jpg?itok=xPd4kUeG)
Bordalsgjelet
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing stones, the water has carved into the bedrock for thousands of years - and is still doing so today.
![From Hamlagrøhornet one sees a division between the fertile phyllite and the naked Precambrian basement rock types in the landscape](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_55.jpg?itok=WKuDCDHt)
Hamlagrø
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversity is especially obvious. The geological conditions change much here within a short distance.
![Slopes above the Kårdal boarding house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_22.jpg?itok=Fvt_DoMF)
![Working with roof slates in the slate quarry at Nordheim around the year 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_29.jpg?itok=AFazwPkE)
Nordheim
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until the Voss Railway came in 1883 and woke them, like the prince in the fairytale who awakened the Sleeping Beauty."