As reported in the Estonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht, Viktors Bertholds was born in 1921 and probably belonged to the last generation of children who started their (Latvian-medium) primary school as Livonian monolinguals; only a few years later it was noted that Livonian parents had begun to speak Latvian with their children.
Como se informou no xornal estoniano Eesti Päevaleht, Viktors Bertholds naceu en 1921 e probablemente pertenceu á última xeración de nenos que comezaron a estudar na escola primaria en lingua letoa sendo monolingües en livonio; só uns poucos anos despois sinalouse que os pais livonios comezaron a falar en letón cos seus fillos.