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The sites show the longhouse, a smaller “old folk’s house” and a hayshed.

Lurekalven

07.12.2018 - 18:51

Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islands there is only a small sound. As late as the 1920s, milking cows were rowed over the sound from Lygra in summer – a form of farming that was adapted to the coastal landscape.

The combination building at Nordvik.

Nordvik

16.06.2018 - 17:27

Hammarsland, Fusa

Hammarsland

30.03.2018 - 08:42

Kårstad, Veafjorden

Stamnes

18.06.2018 - 20:13

Havrå and the arable fields up to the enclosed meadow.

Havrå

12.05.2023 - 11:07

In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small “hamlet” is one of the few undisturbed farming communities that gives us the impression of the large communal yards in West Norway in the 1700s, with houses built close together and strips of arable land.