#hareid

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.

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

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

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

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

Ålesund fra Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, 1981.

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.

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