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![The oldest farmyard at Fryste or Frøystein.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_362-1x.jpg?itok=eOmGpFJ-)
Frøystein
The farm Frøystein by the Ulvik fjord is commonly called Fryste. In 1614 the name was written Frøstemb – an obvious Danish influence – and the form Frøsten was used up until the land register in 1886 and 1907. It is probable that the name of the farm originally was Frystvin; a vin-name. Thus it has no connection with neither Frøy (Norse fertility god) nor stein (stone).
![Bogatunet, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_300-1.jpg?itok=esCVtRrx)
Boga
In the lightly undulating landscape at Boga there lies an old house with several rooms on a small rise. In fact it looks like three houses built into one another; a scullery, a living room and a store with a loft. From other sources we know that this house had covered passageways and sheds round all the walls in the 19th century; a compressed “long house” with inter-connections between all the rooms. This is a building style from the Middle Ages that we see traces of; a building corresponding to those we have seen remains of at Høybøen in Fjell and Lurekalven in Lindås. Bogatunet was restored in 2006.
![Syltastova, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_299-3.jpg?itok=aV5JS7GY)
![Ystebøtræet, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_301-1.jpg?itok=mqbwhdA8)
![Leirvik (Stord), around 1910](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_208-1.jpg?itok=4Zov-htE)
Leirvik- The trading post
Already in the Middle Ages the good harbour at Leirvik provided a connecting point. Here was a court of law, and a guesthouse was established here in the 1600s. But Leirvik never achieved the status of a trading post or a ship-loading place. In the census of 1865 parts of the farms Nordre Bjelland, Leirvik and Orninggård are mentioned as the “Coastal district of Lervig”. And the community grew around the old guesthouse location early in the 1800s.
![The main building at Huglo, Stord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_213-3_futastovo213.jpg?itok=JflzRyZ3)
Sørhuglo
The tax collector’s farm at Sørhuglo is one of the many farms for state employees in Hordaland. According to history, “Futastovo” was built by the tax collector Gram in the second half of the 17th century. In 1943 the building was moved to Sunnhordland Folk Museum.
![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.
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.
![Norheimsund seen from Tolo around the turn of the former century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_371-1xx.jpg?itok=N0nElTs1)
Norheim
Norheim, “the farm by the narrow sound” is mentioned in a diploma from the Middle Ages and in an inheritance document. This is one of the large farms in Hardanger, of those that belonged to the powerful families; Sandven in Kvam, Torsnes in Jondal, Aga in Ullensvang and Spånheim in Ulvik.
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)