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![Bjørsvik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_11_1.jpg?itok=vyYie0Yy)
Bjørsvik
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik
![Tufted Ducks](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_7.jpg?itok=g_0kvi80)
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Seim
Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat here, and the farm became Crown Property up to the 1400s. According to the sagas, Håkon den gode is buried on the farm.
![Bergesfjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_31.jpg?itok=i9o6PSWe)
![The green Hisøya Island](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_45.jpg?itok=QgN_C4RW)
Hisøya
"I am going to prove to you that I am right". That is what the idealist and county doctor Christian Heitmann is supposed to have said in the early 1890s. He sat together with the parish priest, Kullmann, at Heitmann's home in Stord and discussed whether the islands in western Norway could have been forested or not. The priest thought that the area was too barren and weather-beaten for forest to have been able to grow so far out in the sea. But, Heitmann was sure he was right. He challenged the scepticism and set off to work.
![Siggjo from the south. (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_52.jpg?itok=ZLhD-gho)
Siggjo
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate from one or several volcanoes that spewed out glowing lava and ash. But, the shape of the mountain, as it appears today, formed later and by completely different forces.
![Bergesvatnet Lake with Skogafjellet to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_49.jpg?itok=kEQx0X4t)
Skogafjellet
You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to shaping one of the westernmost pine forests in Norway.
![The eider population at Bømlo has increased sharply during the last decade.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fuuugler.jpg?itok=gor6FPw4)
![Botnavatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_20.jpg?itok=q4QcNNrR)
![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.