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This is what the northernmost part of the fishing village might have looked like in Viking times

Hjartøy

19.05.2018 - 19:53

Herdla church in 1863.

Herdla Church

12.06.2018 - 16:58

A letter from the Pope Eugenius 3 in 1146 mentions St. Nikolaus church at Herdla. This church belonged under Munkeliv monastery, which was founded in Bergen by Øystein around 1110. The Herdla Church may stem from this time.

This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.

Toftøyna

27.03.2019 - 15:07

Blomvågen 1851.

Blomvågen

07.12.2018 - 11:48

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås who had been interviewed by the newspaper. He thought that he had discovered a 120 000 year old whale bone, remains of life from before the last Ice Age.

Stone quarry in Kollevågen, 1922

Hanøy

12.06.2018 - 16:56

Bronze keys and remains of a wooden stick from Døso.

Døso

16.06.2018 - 14:11

Raudlia

Raudlia

15.05.2018 - 13:39

Oselva

Oselva

16.06.2018 - 15:58

Oselvo is the biggest waterway on the Bergen peninsula, with sources in Gullfjellet and Sveningen. There is a fall of only 60 metres along the entire stretch from Samdalsvatnet Lake to the sandbank in Fusafjorden. It is rare to see a river like this in western Norway. There is salmon along this entire section of the Oselvo river.

Villelia

Villelia

15.05.2018 - 13:43

Hjelmevågen, Øygarden

Hjelmo

16.06.2018 - 18:29

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.

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