The lookout point and the adjacent car park of Stegastein are located on the old mountain road between Aurland and Lærdal - county road 243 - has been included in the national tourist road project of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The lookout point received the award for the year's best construction project at the "Byggegallaen" in 2006.
Førde church is a basilica church in wood located on the farm Skei in the centre of Førde. It has 600 seats and was consecrated on 1 October, 1885 by bishop Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef. The architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan designed the church. It is the parish church of Førde parish and main church of Førde "sokn" (sub-parish).
From 1900 to 1920, 37 lighthouses were built in this country. One of these was the Utvær lighthouse, and its impressive and solid construction was built to withstand the extreme weather conditions.
State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Selvik in Askvoll was built in the years 1975-1980, and was given the name of "Folkelånsvegen". The reason for the name is that the road was paid in part by a "public shareholding company". People from all over the Sunnfjord district bought shares. Without this great interest it is doubtful if the road would have been built.
Gulatinget was the assembly site for the jurisdiction of western Norway. From the early 10th century and for a period of about 400 years, the assembly at Gulen played a key role in the judicial system of this part of the country.
Isak Refsnæs (1852 - 1928) from Stadlandet painted both landscapes and portraits. Nevertheless, he is best known as a "marine" painter and interpreter of the west-Norwegian coastal landscape.
Steigastølen, which is located straight under the Ølnesstølen mountain farm and close to Bergastølen, used to be the summer mountain farm for the farm called Steig. At the mountain farm the milk was separated and churned, and the skimmed milk was given to the calves. Lars Steig cultivated about two acres near the mountain farm. He cut the hay and later transported the hay down to the main farm in wintertime. The mountain farm was in use until 1979. The two buildings still remain and are now used as cabins.
2 liters of water
approx. ¾ kilos of cut soup bones of salted/dried meat
2 cups of dried mutton in small pieces
2 cups of dried pork in small pieces, bacon can also be used
small dumplings made of 3 raw grated potatoes
½ boiled potato mashed
½ teaspoon salt
semolina to make about 2 ½ cups of batter
2 cups of sliced carrots
2 cups of white cabbage cut in pieces
Anna Myklebust (1868-1942) from Bryggja put down an unusually high number of hours for the temperance movement. She established a children's lodge at Bryggja and travelled for many years as a speaker in the Nordfjord region. In 1847, the regional lodge erected a memorial stone on her grave at Totland church.
Vilnes church is a longchurch built of logs located at Vilnes on the southern tip of the island of Atløy in the municipality of Askvoll. The church was built in 1674 and has a seating capacity of 130. The vicar Otthe Jonassøn was in charge of the building project. In the 1950s, the church was restored according to the plans of the architects Johan and Claus Lindstrøm. Vilnes church is a "sokn" church for the Vilnes "sokn" in the parish of Askvoll.
The "Sunnfjord boat" used to be the common boat type in the Sunnfjord area, but already 150 years ago, it was beginning to lose ground to a modified version of the "Nordfjord boat". The coastal society "Over stokk og stein" (literally: stumbling forward) at Bremanger today owns one of the few original Sunnfjord boats still afloat.
In the summer of 1999 Harald Bakke from Holmedal rescued a menhir from ending up at the bottom of the sea. The stone had lain in the pebbles, and year by year it had moved toward deep water. One year later the stone was erected beside two burial mounds on the seafront of the farm of Bakke.
Leikanger church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Leikanger on the eastern side of Stadtlandet in the municipality of Selje. The church has a seating capacity of 400, and was consecrated on 28 October, 1866. It was built by using the material from the old Selje church which was torn down the same year. The architect in charge of the rebuilding in 1895 was Lars Sølvberg. As of 1 January, 1997, Leikanger church is the "sokn" church for the Leikanger "sokn" in the Selje parish.
Johannes Haarklou (1847 - 1925) won for himself a prominent position in Norwegian music in the period 1880 - 1925. He was a composer, a music review writer, an organist, and a conductor. Yet he was overshadowed by his great contemporaries, Grieg, Svendsen, and Sinding. Too many of his works have been forgotten in the archives.
The people of Kråkenes have always been faced with bad landing sites. There were five known sites: Storehola, Keila, Stiksvika, Bleke and Synstestøa. In 1933-38, a road was built to Kråkenes from the Kvalheim farm.