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| Description: Renovation
project at Einar's old school building on the nearby Hundsnes farm. |
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| Description: A
fjording checks out the strangers. |
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| Description: This
is a particularly handsome and well cared for fjord horse. |
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| Description: The
Bedehus at Hundsnes farm -- once used for conservative religious meetings. |
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| Description: Front
view of the Bedehuss. |
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| Description: Kåre
Slogvik's farm, Bruk 1, just south of Einar's Bruk 7. |
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| Description: Here
Einar shows Peg where the old Slogvik house had been moved to Bruk 1 many
years ago. |
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| Description: View
to the north showing the old Slogvik house location on Bruk 1. |
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| Description: Gjertrud
Slogvik's sister, Karen, the potter, pitching hay for her horses in the
field of Bruk 1. |
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| Description: Einar's
Viking boat. |
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| Description: The
ex-champion rower, Einar rows Keith out into the fjord. |
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| Description: Captain
PC in comand of this voyage. |
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| Description: Looking
back at the Slogvik farm from out in the Hervik Fjord. |
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| Description: Sjur
Slogvik, Einar's cousin, brings timbers to Keith from the original ancestral
Slogvik home. |
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| Description: Sjur
and Keith discuss how to pack these in the suitcases to take home to America. |
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| Description: Sjur,
Keith and Einar inspect the pegs on the end of the timbers estimated to
be over 200 years old. |
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| Description: A
close up of the pegging system used by the original builder. |
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| Description: Einar
and Sjur decide which tools to use on these old timbers. |
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| Description: Einar
cuts a notched end off to be packed in the suitcase. |
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| Description: The
prized notched timber end is now in a place of honor in the California
home of Peg & Keith. Also on display here is a friendly little troll
fashioned by Karen Vikse, Kåre's sister in law, and given to Peg
by Kåre & Gjertrud Slogvik. |
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