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The steep sloping landscape on Håvra

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

18.11.2017 - 19:49

The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy Island, actually first came into being in Viking times, with an incipient division of the farms into smaller units.

Skåråsmyri marsh and disappearing signs of the peat cutting that once was, though an old road still shows the way through the landscape

Skaråsmyri

19.05.2018 - 20:15

The language is shaped in daily life – out in the great “language laboratory”.

Local Dialects in Hordaland

15.05.2018 - 14:53

Language tells us both about social distance and human contact in many different ways. The dialects show how people who have had connections and dealings with one another throughout the ages, have developed a common language.

Spring herring fishery at Espevær in the 1850s

A True Gold Mine

14.03.2023 - 10:32

Fiddler Knut Hamre from Granvin

Folk Music and the Hardanger Fiddle

15.05.2018 - 14:52

It is in Hordaland County that we find the oldest traces of a folk music stemming from our national instrument, the Hardanger fiddle. And it is still this musical tradition which is characteristic of folk music here.

Bjørsvik

Bjørsvik

24.06.2018 - 15:41

The industrial settlement Bjørsvik

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