"Oaldsbygda"

If you look to the east, you will see an abandoned hillside village: Oaldsbygda. In 1910, the nine farmsteads here were home to 70 people. They had a post office, a pier and even their own schoolhouse. In 1930 the villagers built a telephone line, assisted by volunteers from a village on the other side of the mountain. But after the Second World War, the locals started to move away. The last family moved out in 1953. Small communities are fragile; once some people move, things get a little more difficult for those who stay behind.