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![Gjerde church at Etne](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_186_y.jpg?itok=6BRujecm)
![Grindheim church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_188_yzx.jpg?itok=aRPBqArF)
Grindheim church
The first church at Grindheim was a stave church with a free-standing steeple. The church was first mentioned in 1326, but was probably built long before this time.
![Boat engines, Norwegian Engine Museum in Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_189_motormuseum_1_150.jpg?itok=CDwNdWQJ)
![Støle church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_187_stole_kyrkje_150.jpg?itok=QkdeOeRd)
Støle church
The stone church at Støle may have been built around 1160 probably as a private chapel for the mighty Stødle clan. It is likely that it was Erling Skakke, the king’s representative and father of king Magnus Erlingsson, who built the church.
![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?
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)
![The farm steading of Årskog.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_217-2.jpg?itok=jDL5OgDI)
Årskog
Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm steading exists as it was in the 1800s. In 1980 the two brothers, Lars and Olai Årskog donated the farm with all its contents of tools and interior decoration, for museum purposes.
![Hardanger Folk Museum](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/hardanger20folkemuseum.jpg?itok=qxQqq1YB)
![Skredhaugen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-2.jpg?itok=yDgN2ZD4)
![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.