Claim: Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs, who began gathering folk material after meeting Norwegian writer and scholar Peter Christen Asbjørnsen during a collection expedition in Hardanger in the summer of 1870, published an ad in several newspapers in Western Norway for people in Hardanger, Voss, and neighboring villages to send him manuscript collections with oral traditions in 1882.
Evidence: After meeting Peter Christen Asbjørnsen during a collection expedition in Hardanger in the summer of 1870, Haukenæs also started gathering folk material in the district. In 1882 he published a request in several newspapers in Western Norway for people in Hardanger, Voss, and neighboring villages to send him manuscript collections with oral traditions.