According to the Voting Rights Act from 1814, the right to vote in rural areas was limited to officials and land owners. The Act did not require any minimum size of the properties. This Act lasted until 1884.
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The 'marsh men' at Stadlandet
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The artist Bernt Tunold
When were you born, asked the journalist who interviewed Bernt Tunold in 1934. In 1577, replied Tunold. In 1577, asked the puzzled reporter. What happened three to four hundred years ago is just as close to me as what happened 30 years ago, answered Tunold. Yesterday or a thousand years ago - what does it matter when you are faced with the real values in life, such as friendship values and spiritual values? -
The Gjelsvik stone
Professor Nikolaus Gjelsvik (1866-1938) was born at the farm of Gjelsvik in the municipality of Vevring, now Askvoll municipality. He is regarded as one of the greatest lawyers this country ever fostered. Gjelsvik also contributed much in the language movement, the youth movement, and the temperance movement. In 1941, the people of the Sunnfjord district erected a memorial stone at his place of birth. -
The rock carvings at the point of Staveneset in Askvoll
On the weather-exposed Staveneset, one of the westernmost points on mainland Norway, we find ancient traces of human activities. -
Trollefos Uldvarefabrik
For more than thirty years the Trollefossen waterfall on the farm of Engjabøen at Holmedal provided the woollen mill by the same name with electric power until the buildings burnt down in 1932. The enterprise created jobs, but it faced many problems. -
Helle Teglverk
From the 1890s until around 1920, the old municipality of Fjaler was the most industrialized of the municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. The largest enterprises before 1900 were the two brickyards. Helle Teglverk was started up in 1895, and Vårdal Teglverk in 1897. In 1905, 52 persons were employed at the two yards. In the early 1960s, Vårdal Teglverk was bought by Helle Teglverk, which was in operation until 1978. -
Askvoll during the Viking Period
Askvoll is centrally located on the sea lane, and in the surrounding area several sea battles were fought during the Viking Period. The Norse saga literature gives more information. -
Johan Schumann - sheep farmer at Hovden
On a crag on the island of Hovden to the west of Florø stands a three-metre-high stone in commemoration of Johan Schumann. The memorial stone was erected at the same time as the urn containing his ashes was buried there some time after his death in 1911. Who was he, this man who was honoured with such a special memorial? -
Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary
David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very carefully for his mission. Together with his wife he spent all his strength in their missionary work in the Philippines. -
Many-sided activities vital in Solund
In order to survive on the rugged islands in the west, the people had to harvest from the sea as well as from the land. The money came more easily from the fisheries, on the other hand, they failed more often.
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