Editing Bykle (section)

==History==
At ''Storhedder'', north of the lake ''Storheddervatnet'' near the mountain [[Storheddernuten]], there are [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[Runic alphabet|runic]] inscriptions dating over 1000 years old.

The [[Hovden, Agder|Hovden]] area was interconnected more with the districts to the west of the mountains than communities further down the Setesdal valley. The main mountain [[plateau]] trade route led west to Suldal municipality in Rogaland. The Byklestigen pass was the line of divisions between [[Norwegian dialects|dialects]]; in Valle to the south the classic Setesdal tongue was spoken while in Bykle the dialect includes a significant mixture from neighboring Telemark county.

[[Falcon]]s were trapped in the heights above Bykle. From as early as 1203 and as late as 1780 there are reports of [[English people|English]] and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] trapping of falcons at Breivik in Bykle. One byproduct of the numerous Dutch visits in the 1560s was the discovery that the natives had no natural resistance to [[syphilis]]; a state physician had to be dispatched there to stem the disease.

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2183. Sætersdalen, Mellem Valle og Bykle (6934554401).jpg|Farm - c. 1885
2182. Sætersdalen, Mellem Valle og Bykle (6788440874).jpg|Farm - c. 1885
2184. Sætersdalen, Mellem Valle og Bykle (6934554861).jpg|Traveling in Bykle - c. 1885
Byklar Lindahl.jpeg|Farming family from Bykle wearing traditional [[bunad]]s - c. 1885
Byklar med slipestein Lindahl.jpeg|Farming family from Bykle wearing traditional [[bunad]]s - c. 1885
File:Bykle - no-nb digifoto 20160225 00071 NB MIT FNR 05954.jpg|View of the village of Bykle and the [[Old Bykle Church]] - 1948
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