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![Potholes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_31.jpg?itok=W2LZyIpN)
![Skjervet toward the east. Jørdre Farm up to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_32.jpg?itok=HGK8HMBs)
Skjervet- river theft
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward Granvin. The glacier from Raundalen down the windy valley along the Vosso to Bolstadøyri went too slow to make the turn.
![The “window house” at Ystås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_367-4x.jpg?itok=Z1TrRuGr)
![The oldest farmyard at Fryste or Frøystein.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_362-1x.jpg?itok=eOmGpFJ-)
Frøystein
The farm Frøystein by the Ulvik fjord is commonly called Fryste. In 1614 the name was written Frøstemb – an obvious Danish influence – and the form Frøsten was used up until the land register in 1886 and 1907. It is probable that the name of the farm originally was Frystvin; a vin-name. Thus it has no connection with neither Frøy (Norse fertility god) nor stein (stone).
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)
![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.
![Glacial river plain at Lake Klevavatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_32.jpg?itok=duW0R_ur)
Rallarvegen
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end came the glaciers and sculptured the vast landscape. Along the ground or on the horizon, from bicycle or on foot - the landscape tells its story - and it tells it clearer on Rallarvegen than many other places.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![Ramnagjelet, Ulvik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_45.jpg?itok=pbWriFAE)
Ulvik-village
The ice cap that covered the land during each of the 40 past ice ages over the past 2 million years of Earth's history pressed down the crust of the earth - like a finger on a rubber ball. And when the ice finally loosened its grip 11,000 years ago, the earth's crust rose again, most where the ice was thickest, least where it was thin, quickly in the beginning, and later more slowly. To this day, the land in the inner part of Norway continues to rise by perhaps one millimetre per year. By and large, however, the crust in Hordaland has again reached equilibrium after the weight of the ice was removed.
![The cross church from 1710](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_359-3_0.jpg?itok=a4Vem1vB)