FOURTEENTH GENERATION

9474. Savat (Sevat or Sjovat) Oddsen SKIFTUN⁽¹¹⁶²⁾⁽¹¹⁶³⁾ was born about 1500 in Fevoll, Rogaland, Norway.⁽¹¹⁶⁴⁾ He died before 1591 in Skiftun, Norway. [Page p. 544a of the Slooper book indicates he died before 1563; p. 410a. indicates he died before 1591.] In recorded history of the area, Sjovat was the third farmer to own Skiftun.* "In 1500-1600 it was people from the best and richest families in Hjelmeland that live there. The next (third) farmer was Sjovat Oddson, son of Odd på Fevoll. Sjovat had lived on Sandanger, another farm with rich people, before he came to Skiftun. His son-in-law took over after Sjovat. In 1563 he was the one who paid the most tax in Hjelmeland." He moved to Sandanger. (Skiftun Bygdebok)
*NOTE: Skiftun is located at the waters edge about 20 miles north east of Stavanger, Norway, in the Hjelmeland "commune" or parish. "The name has been written in many ways. In Arch Bishop Olav Engelbrektson's land book from 1530, it is written SkyptWnn. Later it is written Schiftuun and Skiøbøenn in 1567. The last part of the word, "tun" is originally a fenced piece of land. Some other places it is used for a holy place, and it is possible that Skiftun had been an old heathen place. The first part of the name must mean ship, and it could then be a place they worshipped the ship god Njord. It cannot be seen from the name how old the farm is, but there are traces in the ground. There is 7 circular burial mounds from 8 to 13 meters in diameter. In one of them there is a tomb made of flat stones. They stopped burning the dead around 200 A.C., so the farm might have been established 300-600 A.C. The first time Skiftun is mentioned in documents, is 1519. Laffris on Skifftwnm is mentioned then, but two years later Kjell is the farmer. If the farm was in use in 1520, it has probably been used all the time after the Black Death (1349-1350). (A big part of the population died, maybe 30-50%. As a result, there was plenty land left for the survivors. Many of the marginal small farms was left, and not reopened before the pressure on land increased by an increasing population again. In 1700-1800. If the farm had been used all the time, it is either a good farm or it is on a strategic place.) (Skiftun Bygdebok)
He was married to ? Jonsdaughter STILLUFSEIKE.

9475. ? Jonsdaughter STILLUFSEIKE⁽¹¹⁶⁵⁾⁽¹¹⁶⁶⁾. Children were:

4737 i. Bergitte or Birgit Savatsdtr. (Sevatsdtr.) SKIFTUN.

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