For more than 3000 years chieftains at Avaldsnes, on the strait between Karmøy and Haugesund known as Nordvegen, levied tolls on passing ships.
It is these chieftains or kings, from the time before written records began, who have endowed us with a history told through monumental burial sites, carved stones and other treasures discovered on the seabed ad much as on land.
It was here, following the battle of Hafrsfjord in 870 AD, that Harald the Fairhaired established Norway＇s first throne and the strait of Nordvegen gave its name to Norway
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