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Lyngholmen

13.03.2018 - 21:20

Ryvarden lighthouse (Svein Nord)

Ryvarden

19.06.2018 - 17:14

In the Islandic Landnåmabok there is a story that the explorer Floke Vilgjerdsson built a cairn “where meetest Hordaland and Rogaland” and the cairn was named Flokavarði. Tormod Torfæus wrote in Historia Norvegica (1711) that this name was still in use, but that the farmers used “Ryvarden” for the same place.

Tjernagelshaugen

Tjernagel

19.06.2018 - 17:14

For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn in his account of Knut the Mighty, who in the year of 1028 sailed from Denmark to Nidaros: “And in front of the old cairn at Tjernagel sailed soldiers sharp with peace”.

The gold ring from Vikse.

Vikse

13.03.2018 - 21:21

Kyrkjegard, Leirvåg

Leirvåg

06.05.2019 - 10:23

Bautastein, Straumen gard (Svein Nord)

Straumen

06.05.2019 - 10:37

Den gamle handelsstaden på Tjernagelsholmen kring 1920 (foto: ukjent)

Tjernagelsholmen

06.05.2019 - 10:42

The Gramshaug rock paintings.

Gramshaug

29.05.2019 - 16:43

Folkedal

Øvre Folkedal

11.06.2020 - 08:41

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.

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