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The longhouse at Førland

Førland

21.11.2018 - 19:36

The extended farm dwelling at Hopland

Hopland

03.01.2019 - 15:24

The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in one row. There have been many such joined structures in the coastal communities, but today there are few remaining. If we travel to the other side of the North Sea, to the Faeroes, Shetland and the Orkney Islands, we find corresponding features in the older building traditions. We find ourselves in a large North Atlantic cultural area.

The Hopland mills around 1940.

Kvernhusvågen

30.03.2018 - 09:08

Drawing: longhouse, Sætre

Sætre

16.06.2018 - 18:35

Dale

Dale

18.06.2018 - 20:09

Gullbrå, Vaksdal

Gullbrå

24.06.2018 - 15:27

From written sources we know that the farm Gullbrå was in use early in the 1600s. The Apostolic church in Bergen owned land here that it rented out, but even early in the 1600s some of the land was in private ownership. Eksingedalen then belonged to Modalen parish, which was under Hamre parish. In 1723 the Apostolic church still had properties here, and Ivar and Lars were farmers.

The farm at Færavåg, Tysnes

Færavåg

19.06.2018 - 17:18

The main house at Færavåg was built in 1599. History tells us that a German came to Færavåg and built the house. He divided the land between his two sons. They in turn divided it between their two sons, thus there were four equal holdings on the farm. And it is said that all households lived in the same house. They each stayed in their own corner around the fire in the middle of the floor.

The wheelhouse at Hovdanes, Tysnes

Hovdanes

30.03.2018 - 20:24

The main house at Nedrevåge, Tysnes

Nedrevåge

19.06.2018 - 17:44

Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both large stones and gravel. A lot of what slid down from the Vågsliene (slopes at Våg) collected in Neravåge. It was so bad that the damage “never again can be remedied or restored”, it was said in 1670.