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![The décor from the Skogasel house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_376-2.jpg?itok=QmBEEr5T)
![The smokehouse at Vika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_378-3.jpg?itok=bQsLSdp6)
![Smokehouse in Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_372_z.jpg?itok=BTL-Cz8e)
Vikøy
Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger, has obtained a central position in the Norwegian national romanticism.
![Dwelling house and store from the Øystese hamlet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_370-1.jpg?itok=7m6cFMFJ)
![The mountain farm Øyna in Reinsnos.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_399-1x.jpg?itok=xrSyoFMA)
Reinsnos
The mountain settlement Reinsnos is situated at nearly 700 metres above sea level at the end of the Reinsnos lake; an entry point to the Hardanger plateau.
![Aga farmyard](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_389-2x.jpg?itok=Exy3i-3z)
Aga
The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustered settlement. “Lagmannsstova”, named after the “lagmann” (law speaker) Sigurd Brynjulfsson, was already protected in 1924; one of the authentic profane wooden buildings from the Middle Ages still standing. All the same it is the farmyard itself that is the key cultural monument.
![A “chest piece” from Bu museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-3.jpg?itok=OmJbReR9)
![The medieval house at Huse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_391-1.jpg?itok=7TiWr5uu)
Huse
The farm Huse is situated on a broad terrace in the valley above the church and the commons ground in Kinsarvik. Huse is one of the largest farms in Kinsarvik. The house from the Middle Ages, still standing at Huse today, probably from the middle of 1200, is joined on to a house in the Swiss style from around 1890. This house, with a smoke-vent in the roof, bears witness of a grand old farm and of the chieftain’s power in early medieval times.
![Today Jåstadstova is placed at Hardanger Folk High School at Lofthus](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_388-1.jpg?itok=XiKCdQX1)
Jåstad
The farm Jåstad, situated a few kilometres north of Agatunet, must have been a grand farm in medieval times. Torolf on Jåstad is mentioned as arbitration moderator in 1293, and in the vaulted corridor at Lyse Kloster Sigurd, farmer at Jåstad, and his wife Sigrid – the king’s kinswoman - are buried.
![Skredhaugen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-2.jpg?itok=yDgN2ZD4)