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![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![The guesthouse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_366-1.jpg?itok=GUuS5PEL)
Kongstun
In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on visitations, and the king could requisition free transport.
![The contrast between phyllite and Precambrian basement is clearly visible at Lussand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_27.jpg?itok=knbu7uIk)
Lussand- geology
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjord – dei krokar og buktar seg innover meir eller mindre vinkelrett på kysten. Hardangerfjordens utforming har røter 400 millionar år tilbake i tida, då den veike sona i fjellet, der isen seinare tok grådig for seg, vart danna. Denne sona stig på land ved Lussand.
![Glacial river plain at Lake Klevavatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_32.jpg?itok=duW0R_ur)
Rallarvegen
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end came the glaciers and sculptured the vast landscape. Along the ground or on the horizon, from bicycle or on foot - the landscape tells its story - and it tells it clearer on Rallarvegen than many other places.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![Stone quarry in Kollevågen, 1922](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_21.jpg?itok=Xnws-T7D)
![Strusshamn at the beginning of the 1800s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_269-2-3.jpg?itok=GGmjJiOc)
Strusshamn
On the south side of Askøy, just west of Bergen, lies Strusshamn. The sheltered bay is one of the best harbours in Byfjorden, on the route south. At the time of the sailing ships the harbour could be full of vessels from Bergen and abroad, lying in wait for favourable wind. Old anchoring rings from 1687 bear witness to this. Strusshamn was a quarantine harbour for ships that came sailing in with the yellow pest flag flying.
![The smallholding Træet, Askøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_269-4.jpg?itok=3Eer2fPn)
![The guesthouse place at Brattholmen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_280_z.jpg?itok=nAblwrL-)
Brattholmen
The old guesthouse location in Brattholmen on the east side of Litlesotra, was probably established in the first half of the 1700s. A list from 1748 mentions that the place “for some years has been inhabited by an Enrolled Sailor by the name of Peder Michelsen”. As was the case for most other military hosts, he was exempt from paying income tax.
![The saw tooth pattern is clearly visible from Skora Mountain southwards toward Tellnes and Skogsvågen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_26.jpg?itok=JF-ZMEUU)
Haganes
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken off shorter transverse sides. It has taken several hundred million years to file this saw blade, an enduring interplay between various geological processes.