- The film depicts working life in Havrå in Haus municipality, where operating methods and working methods had practically not changed in recent centuries.
- Documentary film (recorded 1950) about farming in Havrå, Haus municipality, Osterøy outside Bergen. A film from a closed off small Norwegian rural community. A few miles east of Bergen lies Osterøya, with one of the most famous gardens in Western Norway. In most farms, the replacement has meant that the users now live separately. But in Havrå there is still the old cluster goat yard, as it has done for hundreds of years. It is most like entering a small town when you enter through the Garen, which they call the long street through the yard, and meet people hurrying to and fro between the houses. The stream that flows through the yard is good to have. In the gutter at the top, they fetch water, and there they wash their clothes. But further down the stream goes underground, and there it takes up paths from gutter stones at each house. The stove house at Havrå is in the middle of the yard, the sheds on the outskirts. From the yard, you have a good view of the yard with old and new. Roof by roof, roofed with wild and harding slabs, vossa slate, peat and flagstone, and even wave ink. At the end of March, the spring season begins with manure application. They don't have a horse in Havrå, the man himself has to be. It will be filling the kips and carrying them on the back out into the field and onto the bow. But the guys are not alone in the work. Everyone, take care if the work is to be finished on time. In the old days, the women used to walk and spade when they were carrying dung, but that has now come to an end. Spring is coming across the country. The snow is melting, the cowslips are blooming on the ground, and in the sheepfold it is lambing time. The little newborn lambs must be earmarked before they can be let out together with the adult sheep, otherwise it will be inadvisable to keep them apart from each other. Because in Havrå all the sheep graze in teams, both in the spring when they stay at home on the farm, and later in the summer when they go up in the fields. The first day of summer, 14 April, was spodagen, the old people said. They don't stay online as tightly these days anymore, but it is still the case that everyone takes part at the same time, as in the other big ones. In the old days, it was also common for them to do shift work in the pod, as in so many jobs. Right up until 1915, they used wooden picks to turn the soil, but now only the spade is in use. Plows have probably never been in the soil in Havrå. In Havrå, it is customary that it is the wife of the house who wounds. After sowing, they go over the field with harrows to get the grain into the soil. In the past, they could mostly subsist on grain in Havrå, but today they only grow some oats...
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