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Seim
Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat here, and the farm became Crown Property up to the 1400s. According to the sagas, Håkon den gode is buried on the farm.
![Storsetehilleren/Matrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_319-3.jpg?itok=VSiOpI2L)
Matrehola
On a large gravel terrace in Matredalen (the Matre valley), a couple of kilometres from the coastal settlement Matre, lies Storseterhilleren, at the end of a large stone block that came rushing down from the mountain. The Matre river runs just over 100 metres to the east of the cave.
![The iron bars found at Rambjørg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_319-2.jpg?itok=Kl9g7nMT)
![Door](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_319-4.jpg?itok=-5nryjpy)
![Drawing of runic letters engraved in a carving knife from Fløksand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/linalaukrf.gif?itok=9G3iwJhY)
![The smithy at Odland, Meland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_297-1_0.jpg?itok=n38ypKHf)
Odland
The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse built a smithy in 1877, and this was in operation right up to the 1980s - one of the centres for auger production in Meland. In 1930 yet another smithy was built here. There was a smithy at Fossesjøen as early at the 18th century, and at the end of the 19th century they went over to auger smithing. There is still a market for hand-forged augers.
![Hamre church, Osterøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_325-2_-hamre_kirke.jpg?itok=vm3U9puE)
Hamre Church
Hamre Church has, by all accounts been one of the four main churches in Horda County in the Middle Ages. Hamre was a main church for the whole of Hordaland. Timber remains in the present church show that there was a stave church here in medieval times.
![Hosanger church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_327-2.jpg?itok=wyNffaZc)
Hosanger church
On Christmas Day 1795, at 5 a.m., the lightning struck the church in Hosanger. After three hours, the timbered church from the 1600s, which had replaced the stave church from the Middle Ages, was in ashes. Already on New Years Day in 1796, a sermon was held for the Hosanger population in the main church at Hamre, to which the congregation belonged earlier,
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![Silver dinar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_325-3.jpg?itok=9lwSwy0C)