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![The dwelling house at Rød, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_195-2.jpg?itok=0KnxvR7P)
Rød
In 1969 Sigurd and Margreta Dønhaug donated a collection of around 170 historical cultural objects to Kvinnherad municipality. They wanted their gift to become the start of a farm collection in Uskedalen. And that is what happened.
![Sunde, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_xxx.jpg?itok=7zdyKxkc)
Sunde
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an industrial adventure that made Sunde into one of the first industrial communities in Kvinnherad.
![Hauga House at Tveito, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_195-4.jpg?itok=i7qSkBTz)
![Portrait of Jonas Lie](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_jonas_lie.jpg?itok=TkSZobEx)
![The clustered community in Hjølmodalen early in 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/hjolmo.jpg?itok=iZcai_B_)
Hjølmo
In the steep hillside in Hjølmodalen, a small side valley from Øvre Eidfjord (Upper Eidfjord), which has been a key entrance to the Hardanger Plateau, the hamlet of old farmhouses still lie clustered together. The yard is empty today, some of the houses are used in the summer, but the grass grows round all the corners.
![Kjeåsen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kjeaasen.jpg?itok=v7Svgfx5)
Kjeåsen
High up above the fjord, at a height of 600m lie the two holdings at Kjeåsen. Today you can drive there by car, through a new tunnel that the power engineers in Sima have drilled. Until 1974 the only road went up the steep hillside, along iron bolted ladders across dizzying rocks – a road for the strong at heart.
![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.
![There are two holding in the hamlet at Måbø.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_407-3.jpg?itok=OGwM-qww)
Måbø
Måbø is the uppermost farm in Måbødalen. This narrow and steep mountain valley has been one of the routes from the fjord communities up to the mountain plateau from times immemorial. We are not certain of the meaning of the name Måbø. Perhaps it has its origin in an Old Norse male name Mávi, from the name for seagull, már. The last syllable “bø” means farm. Today Måbø gives us a compact close-up of the subsistence economy: the small farm with the clearance piles, stone walls and a lane that guided the animals into the yard, at the foot of the great mountain expanse.
![Rembesdalsskåka and the lower part of Demmevatnet, from Tresnuten. Demmevass cabin is visible to the left in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_491.jpg?itok=eg8SNPfS)
Simadalen
On the 10th of August, 1937, over half of the agricultural land in Simadalen was submerged by the river. The damage to roads and houses was also catastrophic. This was the most destructive flood ever recorded in Hordaland.
![The Nottveit farms are situated without road access at Mofjorden.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_330-1z.jpg?itok=vG7SLFkx)
Nottveit
In one of the frame-built haysheds at Nottveit, at holding No. 3, we discover that several of the staves have a medieval look, with large dimensions and carefully rounded edges. According to tradition, it was the farms Nottveit and Mostraumen that supplied the timber for the stave church at Mo, and it is not unlikely that these farms received the old timber in return when the new church was erected there in 1593.