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![Eidfjord church.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_403-3.jpg?itok=tfrzqYxj)
Eidfjord church
The old stone church at Eidfjord has an open position on the terrace at Lægreid. In a diploma from 1310 it transpires that Torgeir on Sponheim donated a gift for the erection of the church in Eidfjord. Thus we can assume that the church was under construction at the time. The elements in the style confirm such a dating.
![Folkedal](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_367-4.jpg?itok=88ZF6fTB)
Øvre Folkedal
Folkedal, which today is like a small “detour” from the main highway, was in the Middle Ages centrally situated in one of the most important roads between Hardanger and Voss. This is the road that Olav Haraldsson travelled in 1023, when he came from the royal farm at Avaldsnes for a meeting with the Voss inhabitants about the new belief. The road passes across the mountain pasture Krossaset and down Bordalen to Vangen.
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![Vegane gjennom den tronge og bratte Måbødalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_407-1.jpg?itok=jN0RFHBc)
![Workers](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_369-3.jpg?itok=8KobiG8l)
Lussand-roadwork
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work started in February 1933, and on 9 October 1937 Crown Price Olav opened the stretch of road between Øystese and Ålvik at Fyksesund bridge.
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)
![On the trail toward Kyrkjedøri, a half hour walk from Finse station, we find these small ridges](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_12.jpg?itok=gpoawGzE)
Trail toward Kyrkjedøri
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended up on the roofs of Norway. Also the thrust sheet from the continental collision has found its way to Finse, after a several hundred kilometre-long, trek through the mountains, that took several tens of millions of years to complete.
![The cross church from 1710](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_359-3_0.jpg?itok=a4Vem1vB)
![Grunnosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/austr_17.jpg?itok=YXEI98_B)
![Holmengrå](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fedje_18.jpg?itok=sUXXEBb1)
Holmengrå
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like high mountain landscape during the earth's Paleozoic Era, to a flat lowlands terrain during the Mezosoic Era. Just 400 million years ago, large and small stones plummeted down from the high mountains. Some of these stones became incorporated into the conglomerate bedrock on Holmengrå.