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![Herandsholmen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=1_UHuD_P)
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![Gray alder forest and birch forest along the river above Tveddal.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_22.jpg?itok=PXVD0c4M)
Stølsdalen
The grey alder forest down by the river in Stølsdalen is full of life. The many birds are very busy finding enough to eat from day to day – but the biggest challenge is to make oneself heard above the roar of the Stølselva River.
![The boathouses at Svåsand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=KK04JZW2)
Svåsand
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along the Hardanger fjord. It is the farms at Svåsand that have their boathouses here, four main farms with origins far back in time.
![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:
![Vik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_380-1z.jpg?itok=ZLVdp7pL)
Vik
The farm Vik in Jondal has been one of the earliest settled farms in Jondal; a good and fertile farm east of the river. Legends hold that mighty men have lived in Vik, and it is easy to imagine that the farm may have been a chieftain’s seat for some time.
![Boathouses in Breiviksunde](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_287-2.jpg?itok=IO29IAY2)
![The village on Hernar in early 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_290-1_0.jpg?itok=qrlhwvpl)
Hernar
Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favourable weather before heading out west, and this is where the ships from the western Isles came in. Hjeltefjorden is proof of this. The fjord is named after the people from Hjaltland (Shetland).
![Hjelmevågen, Øygarden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_289-1.jpg?itok=XBi64SD6)
Hjelmo
On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From times immemorial this has probably been the fish-shed location for these farm units and this was also the landing place for the churchgoers.
![The mill in Kvernapollen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_287-3.jpg?itok=bugwrxNl)
Kvernapollen
When the workers came to Kollsnes to start on the work with the landing for the gas terminal from the Troll field in the North Sea, they found the ruins of an old farm mill at Kvernapollen.