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cdahl
Medium member
USA
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 Posted - 26/02/2007 : 23:24:06
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Can someone tell me about any web sites that could show me the lay of the land around Hegra with the farm names? My g-grandparents came from there and I would like to know a little about their way of life during the 1860's - mid 1880's. Thank you.
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 27/02/2007 : 00:48:34
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Hi,
no website, but here are some maps from the area.
From the detailed map, you'll see "Hegra Festning" (Hegra Fort), just south of Ingstad.
The fort was built 1907-1910, and was initially named Ingstadkleiva fort.
Originally built to protect Norway against the Swedes, it became very famous in April 1940, when it became the fort in southern Norway to stand out the longest against the German invasion. The fights against the German occupation went on for 23 days.
The quartering was underground, and the cold, wet and miserable conditions in the fort gave most of the soldiers bronchitis and pneumonia...
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Edited by - jwiborg on 27/02/2007 12:28:20 |
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
1100 Posts |
Posted - 27/02/2007 : 01:40:08
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My great-grandmother came from Hegra (in the Stjørdal area of Nord-Trondelag), and emigrated in 1879, I was there in 2005, visited Hegra Fort and family farms.
Here is a good article by Jon Leirfall about the conditions in Hegra in the 1880’s:
http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume27/vol27_1.htm
This website has good pictures of folk museums and such in Norway:
http://www.olavsrosa.no/en/
This is an organization for descendants of the Nord-Trondelag area:
http://www.tronderlag.org/
Here are some pictures from the Stjørdal area:
http://www.ktv.no/~bmo-ktv/pic/
There are pictures in the Stjørdalboka’s of farms but most of the current farm houses and buildings date from the 1950’s and older ones from the 1930’s.
There are some books published by local historical societies that show the area but not necessarily Hegra:
http://www.stjordal-historielag.no/
I have the book, Sånn va de Å!, and it is excellent. You can email them in English.
Do I have pictures of my visit to Hegra? Sadly, I lost the roll of film in my travels.
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Kåarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
5861 Posts |
Posted - 27/02/2007 : 10:16:17
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Great pictures, enter http://kart.finn.no/ , write Hegra, press søk and enter Hegra. Navigate in the map by dobbelclick and zoom , enter sattelite and watch the area.
Just wondering if the explorer late Helge Ingstad who rediscovered Vinland in 1961 named himself after one of the the Ingsatd farms in the Hegra area. He was born in the neighbor municipality Meråker.
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 27/02/2007 : 10:29:13
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Yes, Helge Ingstad is born on the Fjeld farm in neighbouring parish Meråker.
Strange lastname really, because his father is from Kristiania/Oslo, and his mother is from Tromsø.
Maybe they lived a year or two on the Ingstad farm further down the Stjørdal valley...?
They haven't lived for a long time in Nord-Trøndelag though, because his 3 year old sister Gunvor is born in her mothers hometown Tromsø.
However; there are also Ingstad farms in Østfold (Spydeberg and Askim) and in Hedmark county (Løten); so who knows...
Well, a bit off track with regards to this topic... 
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