This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In the 1982 Feb./Mar issue of HARROWSMITH magazine, a Canadian magazine sort of like SUNSET magazine, There was an article entitled: "Gift Horse of the Vikings" by Pamela de Alth., Which was about Norwegian Fjords.
When I read it I decided that if I ever got a horse, this was the kind I wanted. I had always been "Horse crazy" as a kid but put it on the "back burner" with my career in Wildlife management. Then about five years later , watching a PBS program on Circuses of the World, There was shown this troupe of "liberty horses" , all matched in color, small stocky light tan horses with the stand up white manes with black stripes. I looked up the article in the Harrowsmith magazine to realize I was looking at those Norwegian Fjord horses. Showing the article to a friend at work, he told me that someone had just brought some Fjords up to Alaska and they lived just five miles down the road from me! Well, I had to go see them and met George and Elin Weaver of Two Rivers Fjordhest. George was making another trip "outside" to bring up a young stallion and another couple mares. He brought up Stella, a beautiful White dun, who was a bit taller than the others. I immediately fell in love with Stella, and George decided to sell her to me. She was bred to the young stallion, Anvil's Rikolv and there I was, owner of a mare in foal! Of course I needed a Fjord to ride while Stella raised a foal, so on George's next trip south, he brought up an older trained gelding, Bjarne for me. So here was this first time horse owner suddenly with three Fjords, one of which was a foal, my big gelding Bjorken. Well there was no going back! Bjorken became my best buddy, but I learned to ride on Stella and Bjarne, who are now 29 and 31 respectively. And the Fjords became my new "career" and "obsession" at retirement.
Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, beautiful sunny fall weather
These last few e-mails about losing horses is so sad. How about a little pick me up and hearing how everyone fell in love with the fjord breed?
