I finished rereading The Emigrants about half a year ago. It was rough times indeed. Back home, many where landless and starved. Others left of religios reasons.
Now it's the other way around, people come to norway for safety or to make a better living. My new job is about setling some young familyless refugees from Afghanistan in our community. -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To err is human to arr is pirate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/10/15 Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com>: > That’s a beautiful picture. > > My Norwegian ancestors left the ancestral farm in a location looking > very much like that, just before 1900, to move to Montana, North > Dakota, and Alberta; leaving behind the green and the mountains, > homesteading in the brutal prairie climate. When I went back to see > the valley near the fjord, I thought they must have been crazy to > leave this. > > Weirdly, it turned out to be a brilliant choice: I think it would have > been quite difficult for a small farmer in Northern Europe, surrounded > by family, to break out and try a new life. In North America, within > a couple of generations the family was full of university professors > and bankers and business owners and so on. Just an accident of > landing in a place at a time when there was so much empty space to be > filled; geographical, economic, and cultural. > > But they suffered along the way. My father’s grandmother came over > from Norway pregnant; she had 12 children and only 4 lived to > adulthood. It’s a time that’s unimaginable to someone used to > 21st-century life. -T > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Tim Øsleby <maritim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/2012/10/house-with-view-2.html >> >> My new view >> >> -- >> MaritimTim >> >> My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ >> My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To err is human >> to arr is pirate >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
