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A man died after being bitten by a wolf | Norway AD 1720

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Vellik was the son of Anders and Mildri, tenants on the farm Nordvoll, and was the oldest of 6 siblings.

Vellik married Marit Skarålia in 1716, and during their short marriage, the two had a daughter, Maria, and a son, also named Vellik, born in the same year that his father died.

The daughter, Maria, married Halvar Eriksson Stensflott in 1743 – and she also named her son Vellik, in honour of her late father.

Source: Lykkja, Nils. Meldal Bygdebok vol 3. Gard og ætt I. Meldal kommune 1956. | EGP.00006

Muskox | Norwegian man killed in 1964 muskox attack

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The global seed vault | An Arctic Noah’s ark

On an island in the Arctic Ocean, deep inside a mountain, we find the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a treasure trove of food-plant seeds from all over the world.

The Sami | The Sami flag days calendar

The Sami calendar consists of 12 flag days, the most prominent of them being the Sami National Day on 6 February.

The old Norwegian cemetery | Once and always a pauper

It has been said that all people are equal in Heaven, but the historical churchyard shows us that no such equality applied here on Earth.

Stabbur | The food storehouse on the old Norwegian farm

Like all buildings on the traditional Norwegian farm, the stabbur had a clear purpose: to be a storage for food, fine clothing, and other fragile possessions.

James Arness | Western hero and Norwegian Viking

Are you hailing from Sykkylven in Møre og Romsdal, Norway? Well, then you might be related to the great film and television icon that was James Arness.

Night fishing using a spear and a torch | Lystring

An ancient fishing method was to catch the fish in the dark, using a multi-pronged spear and a torch. The Norwegians call it lystring – the English leistering.

Practical farming in Norway in 1815 | The month of February

February was the month when the historical Norwegian farmer had to be vigilant about the housebound livestock’s remaining fodder. It was still only midwinter.

Norwegian food and drink | The Viking pizza

In Norway, the Italian pizza appeared as an exotic newcomer in the 1970s. But bread topped with foodstuffs is nothing new in Norwegian food history. Even the Vikings ate pizza – but they called it bread-dish.

The Norwegian summer pasture farm | Preserving milk in a bog

The old Norwegians sometimes preserved milk in a container buried in a peat bog. They called it myrmelk. The lack of oxygen in the bog kept the milk fresh – and it could be stored there for months, even years.

Norwegian history timeline | From the ice ages until today

In what we today call Norway, human history began some 12,000 years ago, after the ice ages.

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