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Knud Olson Bergo, who was living just across the town line in Spring Grove, on getting up one morning, saw that a fire had swept over the prairie in the south part of the town ... It's charred appearance at once suggested to his mind a certain bluff located in Slidre Valders, Norway, which was Mr. Bergo's birthplace, and so he exclaiming in Norwegian, " Sort Hammer ," which signifies Black Bluff, and the people have had the good sense to retain the name to this day, which, it will be perceived, is composed of an English and a Norwegian word.
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Terry gave his claim to Maynard in 1857 in exchange for his Pioneer Square holdings ; Maynard farmed the land for 11 years and sold it to Hans Martin Hanson and Knud Olson in 1868, Hanson taking possession of the point itself.
Knud and who
* Knud Jeppesen ( 1892 – 1974 ), a composer and internationally recognised musicologist, who did much to promote Nielsen's music outside Denmark.
* The Knud Rasmussens house in the town of Hundested was the home of polar explorer Knud Rasmussen, who lived there between his many expeditions to Greenland.
On the death of King Valdemar II in 1241, a dispute arose over the succession, which led to the island being raided by Lubeckers who took the part of one of the claimants, Knud Duke of Blekinge who was imprisoned by his brother Erik Plovpenning ( king 1241-1250 ) in Stegeborg.
She was married on 6 November 1951 to Knud, Count of Holstein-Ledreborg, who was born on 2 October 1919.
This produced the following offspring: Christian II, Francis, Knud, and Elisabeth, who later married as princess of Brandenburg.
Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann served from 1865 to 1866 and 1868 to 1869, and Elias Didrichsen served from 1871 to 1888, interrupted by Thorvald Olsen who served from 1877 through 1879.
Knute Nelson was born out of wedlock in Voss, Norway to Ingebjørg Haldorsdatter Kvilekval, who named him Knud Evanger.
The holiday fireworks made a lasting impression on the seven-year-old Knud, who was listed in immigration records as Knud Helgeson Kvilekval.
After this decision, both Knud V and Valdemar Knudsson ( son of Knud Lavard, the enemy of his own father Magnus ) rebelled against Sweyn III, who was expelled in 1154: Knud V and Valdemar became co-kings of Denmark.
Richeza's daughter Sofia of Minsk, Queen of Denmark by her first marriage with Valdemar I, give Richeza her only known legitimate grandchildren: the later kings Knud VI and Valdemar II of Denmark ; Sophie ( Countess of Orlamünde ); Margareta and Maria, nuns at Roskilde ; Ingeborg ( the later repudiated Queen of France ); Helena ( Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg ) and Richeza, named after her grandmother and who, like her, became Queen of Sweden.
However, Knud kept his universal royal rights to pardon the lawless, fine subjects who failed to answer his leding call to war, and demand transportation for his retinue.
Christiern Svensøn and his son Agge, who was Svend Aggesen ’ s father, fought during the civil war following Knud Lavard ’ s murder, on King Erik II Emune's side and Svend writes in Historia brevis regum Dacie, about their participating in these battles.
Norwegian Church records, the accuracy of which are subject to dispute, also show what appear to be several supercentenarians who lived in the south-central part of present-day Norway during the 16th and 17th Centuries, including Johannes Torpe ( 1549 – 1664 ), and Knud Erlandson Etun ( 1659 – 1770 ), both residents of Valdres, Oppland, Norway.
The Norwegians Carl W. Mueller, Knud Naerum, Peder Fagerland, Ottar Ryan, Tor Gerrard Rydland, Hans Bernhard Risanger and Arne Sørvag who had been condemned to forced labor under the same charge received reduced sentences at Sven Hedin ’ s request.
The character Jon Gynt is considered to be based on Ibsen's father Knud Ibsen, who was a rich merchant before he went bankrupt.
James Voelkel suggests that the characters were named after Frederick Rosenkrantz and Knud Gyldenstierne ( cousins of Tycho Brahe ), who had visited England in 1592.
Desert Encounter () is a book written by the Danish journalist Knud Holmboe who had converted to Islam.
But the information recorded about the Inuit tribes that he met proved valuable to later generations of anthropologists, such as Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, who relied on his journals as a reference point for their own observations.
Knud Olsen ( 1919-2010 ) Præstø, Denmark ) is a Danish builder and designer of boats, who was the designer of one of the most popular sailing dinghies in use over the past 50 years, the OK Dinghy, which became an ISAF International Class in 1974.
Knud and was
Ceres Brewery was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery.
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen ( June 7, 1879 – December 21, 1933 ) was a Danish polar explorer and anthropologist.
This trip has also been called the " Great Sled Journey " and was dramatized in the Canadian film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen ( 2006 ).
Historian Knud Haakonssen has noted that in the eighteenth century, Cumberland was commonly placed alongside Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf " in the triumvirate of seventeenth-century founders of the ' modern ' school of natural law.
Knud Haakonssen has noted that, by the Renaissance, Europe was divided with those states controlled by a landed elite being monarchies and those controlled by a commercial elite being republics.
Knud Jeppesen ( 15 August 1892 in Copenhagen – 14 June 1974 in Risskov ) was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music.
Knud Rasmussen asked his guide and friend Aua, an angakkuq ( shaman ), about Inuit religious beliefs among the Iglulingmiut ( people of Igloolik ) and was told: " We don't believe.
Its last mayor was Knud Gerther.
Its last mayor was Knud Størup ( independent ).
Its last mayor was Knud Rødbro.
The more conservative of the two language transitions was advanced by the work of writers like Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, schoolmaster and agitator for language reform Knud Knudsen, and Knudsen's famous disciple, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, as well as a more cautious Norwegianisation by Henrik Ibsen.
Though no territorial changes came of it, it had the effect that Prime Minister Knud Kristensen was forced to resign after a vote of no confidence because the Folketing did not support his enthusiasm for incorporating South Schleswig into Denmark.
The first actual organised coinage was created by Knud den Store ( Canute the Great ) in the 1020s.
* Prince Knud of Denmark was the heir presumptive of his brother King Frederick IX of Denmark, but an amendment to the Danish Constitution in 1953 proclaimed King Frederick's eldest daughter Princess Margrethe, later Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, heir presumptive.
Knute Nelson, also known as Knud Evanger ( February 2, 1843 April 28, 1923 ) was a Norwegian-American attorney and politician active in both Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Knud and living
In 1843, Ingebjørg's brother Jon Haldorsson sold the farm where she and Knud lived, as he could not make a living, and emigrated to Chicago.
This split is supported by recent studies, though its closest living relatives are still not certainly known .< ref > Jønsson, Knud A.
Knud and across
Desert Encounter describes a trip across the Sahara made in 1930 by Knud Holmboe in an old Chevrolet.
Knud and line
Since Frederick IX had fathered no sons and the Danish Act of Succession at the time followed the principle of Agnatic primogeniture, Prince Knud became heir presumptive and next in line to succeed his brother as king.
The new law made Frederick IX's thirteen-year-old Princess Margrethe the new heiress presumptive, placing her and her two sisters before Prince Knud and his family in the line of succession.
Knud and Grove
* John Bergsagel: " Jeppesen, Knud ( Christian )", Grove Music Online, ed.
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