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![Halnelægeret.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_409-2.jpg?itok=hEx5mouW)
Halne
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle drovers stopped here in the summer; they were the cowboys of their time. But Halnelægeret already had a long history before the cattle drovers came.
![The spotted trout](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_21.jpg?itok=LeOeyWy1)
Krækkjavassdraget
Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to be a genetic variant of brown trout. It lives in parts of the Krækkjav water system. Otherwise, on a world scale, this species is only found in a small area in Kaukasus, and possibly also in a lake in Rondane.
![Langavassmyrane looking towards Langavatn.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_39.jpg?itok=TWhBEzeV)
Langavassmyrane
The Ruff lek on Langvassmyrane is the only known phenomenon of its kind on Hardangervidda. Every year it attracts hens from the whole plateau. The marsh is also the richest wetland in the county. This green oasis is located in a rocky moraine landscape a few hours walking distance south of Dyranut.
![Electron Microscope Photo of cyclosporin mushroom Tolypocladium inflatum, magnified 500 times.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_8.jpg?itok=KE6ao1IE)
Skiftesjøen
A microscopic mushroom from Hardangervidda has been like a “golden hen” for the Swiss company Novartis. Everywhere in the world, companies are looking for genetic material from nature that can be used for developing new medicines. Occasionally they succeed.
![From Glesvær.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_26.jpg?itok=NLtS5nd7)
Glesvær
He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend about the sea snake. If so, he must have thought that that was what he had found, for the sea creature resembled more a fantasy figure of a sea snake than any fish he had ever seen.
![St. Ludvig.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_274-4s.jpg?itok=gXvooPsW)
Tyssøy
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church or the chapel of the Holy Ludvig (Louis). Two large stone blocks had lain in the western wall of the church’s nave, and this wall showed a length of 16 meters in the terrain.
![Iglatjødno](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/stord_44.jpg?itok=MRGFOnX6)
![Lake Tveitavatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/stord_42.jpg?itok=AqtnVja2)
Tveitavatnet
It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different species grow up and die out. Nonetheless, some plants get established, but don't manage to spread into new areas, because the climate is at the edge of what they can tolerate. Great fen-sedge is just such a plant.
![Ådlandsstova, as it stood at Nedre Ådland, Stord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-2_sk_414.jpg?itok=cG31Cib5)
Ådlandsstova
The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautifully oval-cut. One story links the cottage to the Gildeskålbakken at Orninggård (Lower Ådland); thus indicating that the cottage has been the medieval banqueting hall. The building has been dated back to the 13-1400s by carbon dating.
![Baldellia](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/stord_30.jpg?itok=cgEojqGU)
Ådlandsvatnet
Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living under water without drowning, and getting totally dried out without whithering. Many swamp plants are well adapted to these kinds of changes.