The history of Storegra Farm
Subtitle: from the ice ages to the present
By: Geir Åsen ; [English translation by Susan Gayle Nordskog].
Publisher: Norsk Fortidsgranskning
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Grimstad]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Storegra Farm (Norway) -- History.; Landvik (Norway) -- History.; Norway -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-406) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION BY JOHAN B. UGLAND Page 5; value: INTRODUCTION BY GEIR ASEN Page 6; value: CHAPTER ONE - From the Ice Age to the Bronze Age; value: The beginning Page 9; value: The first people Page 10; value: The orign of Tjore's name Page 13; value: An expanding population Page 16; value: Tjore's period of glory from the iron age to the middle ages Page 19; value: Strandfjorden becomes a port Page 24; value: The Tjore farmer's expedition to England around the year 925 Page 25; value: Tjore's last clan chieftain Page 34; value: The emigration to Iceland Page 37; value: Solmund Sigurds0n's fight with Jon in 1128 Page 44; value: The Church's symbol of wealth in the middle ages Page 46; value: CHAPTER TWO - The depopulation following the black death; value: Depopulation and decline following the black death Page 50; value: The farmers shipbuilding prior to the late middle ages Page 55; value: The late middle ages and the Reformation Page 63; value: Landowner's and events during the 1500s Page 65; value: CHAPTER THREE - The building of the St. Oluf in Strandfjorden; value: The building of the St. Oluf in Strandfjorden Page 71; value: The fateful storm Page 74; value: Trials and feuds in the 1600s Page 86; value: Tjore's first soldier after the Reformation Page 88; value: Property belonging to Nils Aanonsen in 1624 Page 89; value: The clergyman: Anders Olufsen 0yestad Page 91; value: CHAPTER FOUR - The Shipyard at St0le; value: Jens Olsen ( Hestehagen) St0le, and the shipyard at St0le Page 105; value: Johannes Jensen St0le; Seaman and war hero Page 115; value: The noble ancestors of the Storegra family Page 125; value: CHAPTER FIVE - The ships and the farm; value: Seafaring and farming Page 151; value: The continuing history of Tjore farm Page 157; value: Owners and events in Mid-Tjore Page 158; value: Landowners at Upper Tjore Page 173; value: Landowners at Lower Tjore Page 179; value: CHAPTER SIX - The lines of descent from the old Tjore family; value: Historical events in the Storegra Family Page 187; value: The Building of Tjore fortress Page 187; value: The migration from Tjore Page 191; value: The assult of the Agder farmers on the Orkney islands during the middle ages Page 194; value: Aanon paa Tjore, and a conceivable line of descent Page 196; value: The Church at Tjore Page 210; value: The Witch trials of Landvik Page 214; value: Erich Munch and his presence at Tjore Page 218; value: Lumber, and confrontations with the dutchmen Page 224; value: Thomas Fasting and the murder case of 1773 Page 227; value: The Tjore farmer who bacame a ringleader in the Lofhus uprising Page 229; value: Two disastrous fires at Tjore Page 232; value: The Miller, and prosperity during the 1700s Page 235; value: The lowering of the Landvik lakes Page 240; value: Johanne Sivertsdatter and the thief in 1752 Page 243; value: The German defenses in Strandfjorden Page 245; value: The last bear-hunt at Tjore Page 248; value: An argument over a fence in 1897 Page 249; value: When the new main road between Grimstad and Lillesand was built Page 250; value: Measures to aid the poor Page 252; value: Apatite mining at Tjore Page 255; value: The Story of Ole H0yland's treasure at Tjore Page 257; value: CHAPTER SEVEN - The many farms; value: Inntjore Farm Page 262; value: Aagre Farm Page 264; value: St0le Farm Page 266; value: Hestehagen Farm Page 267; value: Vatnestrand Farm Page 269; value: CHAPTER EIGHT - The events among the farm; value: Shares in Ships Page 272; value: Tjore in a historical wiew Page 278; value: How and why Tjore developed as it did Page 283; value: A historical excursion through Tjore and Strandfjorden Page 287; value: A summary of Tjores history Page 304; value: Tjore and Inntjore Page 328; value: Old units of measurement Page 331; value: The Tjore Farm between 900-1883 Page 336; value: Map over Upper, Mid and Lower Tjore Page 341; value: An appendix on Ship Building in Strandfjorden Page 342; value: The Royal shipyard as a Key to the Middle Ages Page 355; value: A Theory about the Function of Strandfjorden during the Viking Period Page 364; value: Archeological Evidence around Strandfjorden Page 373; value: Traces of the Royal Shipyard Page 375; value: Tjore - A Community that Retains old Traditions Page 387; value: Register of names Page 395; value: Index of Subjects and Locations Page 399; value: Source Register Page 403.