#hareid

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Kirkegård og kirke, Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, Norge, 1972.

My paternal ancestors would have been buried in this cemetery a few kms from the ancestral farm in Hjörungavåg, but a custom in Norway has been the removal of bones to an ossuary after a century, leaving the graves for new inhabitants. Records in the church itself do give evidence of my grandfather's family, and of course more recent family have been buried here.

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Evening sky by knutpettersfoto https://flic.kr/p/22iC2rB

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Naust, Brandal, Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, 1976.

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Kvist, Hareid kirke, Møre og Romsdal, Norge, 1972.

The church attended by my paternal ancestors -- where they were baptized and recorded, confirmed, married, and buried in its adjacent churchyard.

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Brandal, Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, 1976.

Glad syttende mai!

My grandfather was from the somewhat flatter agricultural area just to the left of this hillside.

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Ålesund fra Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, 1981.

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Hjørungdal gård, Møre og Romsdal, 1984.
 Now abandoned, this house, about 200 years old, was the childhood home of my paternal grandfather. The farm is still held by a member of the family, but a new house with all mod cons has been constructed. In Norway there is a tradition of maintaining abandoned old buildings, and thus many of the old farmhouses one sees standing are unused but well-maintained.

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Landlig landskap med gårder, Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, 1976.